[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 44 (Thursday, April 1, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1793]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the United Nations has a terrible track 
record on appeasing dictators. The growing scandal surrounding the 
Iraqi Oil for Food program is a good example.
  While the Iraqi people suffered from shortages of food and medicines, 
Saddam Hussein looted billions of dollars in U.N. aid to fund his 
military and buy friends around the world.
  Manufacturers and trade brokers in Europe, Russia, China, and the 
Arab world benefited from billions Saddam Hussein funneled to them, all 
courtesy of the U.N. Oil for Food program. Those who profited from 
Saddam's generosity have become propaganda mouthpieces for his corrupt 
regime.
  As Saddam's friends criticized how sanctions made the Iraqi people 
suffer, they pocketed billions of aid intended for the people they 
claimed to care about. No wonder they were against liberating the Iraqi 
people. They were profiting off of their suffering.
  These coconspirators with Saddam Hussein should be exposed. Their 
selfishness and deceit have cost Iraqi lives.

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