11-10-2005, 03:32 AM
<b>OIL-FOR-FOOD -THE REAL SCANDAL</b>--Guest Column by Radha Rajan The Author is Joint Secretary, Vigil Public Opinion Forum, Chennai)<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The money that was made âillegallyâ by Saddam Hussein was utilized for his people while the money made legally was diverted illegally for non-humanitarian purposes. <b>Natwar Singh and Soniaâs Congress may be the opportunists that Saddam Hussein may have used to make the money so desperately needed for his people but we, as a nation cannot reduce the immoral oil-for-food programme or the scandalous Volcker report to Natwar Singh and the Congress party</b>. This was and continues to be a crime against the children and the people of Iraq and therefore calls for collective national response to UN (read American) plunder and loot. Do we have the vision and the sense to see it that way?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->