As for the U.N., it proved its worth to Saddam as the one 
    hall of mirrors in which such shenanigans could take 
    place. Yet even now we are told that "at least" Oil for 
    Food fed the Iraqi people when they were on the edge of 
    starvation, and this is accounted a U.N. success. That is 
    false. Oil for Food offered a lifeline of cash and 
    influence to a regime that was starving its people. The 
    program did not corrupt the U.N. so much as exploit its 
    essential nature. Now Mr. Annan wants to use this report 
    as an endorsement of his "reform" proposals. Only at the 
    U.N. could he dare to think he could get away with this.