Republicans Outraged By Corruption Of...Well, A Corrupt Program

During the 90's, sanctions imposed on Iraq led to a massive number of death's due to malnutrition. More than half a million children died and god knows how many adults. So how did the international community respond? With compassion? Obviously not, they, including the US, decided to start up the Oil for Food program. In other words, we had no problem exploiting the death of half a million kids as a way of getting more fucking oil. And by "we", I mean all of us, the States, France, Russia, etc...pretty much every country looked at those dead kids and saw nothing but opportunity. So here we are post-Iraq war, and republicans have decided to freak out about the scandals that were involved in the program. Has it not occurred to anyone that the Oil For Food program was itself a scam? The sentiment that "Hey, unless you want a million dead kids on your hands, better give us the oil" is so overwhelming greedy and callous that it's hard to believe anyone took the program seriously to begin with. So, let's get a few things straight:

After-the-fact corruption did not ruin Oil For Food, because the program itself was a form of corruption.

The next time we decide to do something about starvation, don't initiate another Oil for Food program...initiate a Food Program. Display actual compassion or shut the fuck up, okay?

If the UN had rolled over for the US and gone along with the Iraq war, none of these investigations would be happening. This is punishment...we happily looked the other way for years, and it is only post-war that republicans decided to turn on their selective outrage. And Clinton was president during the sanctions regime, so he gets as much criticism as anyone else, this is not some purely one-sided thing. I'm just weary of hearing this BS outrage from republicans, since it's premised entirely upon selective-amnesia.

Thanks...