I'm not a big fan, or critic for that matter, of the United Nations but if they vote to give US control over Iraqi oil revenues they might as well schedule a vote to disband the entire organization immediately thereafter. The oil for food program isn't perfect but it's designed to deliver the same type of relief to the Iraqi people as anything in the U.S. proposal. If we've learned nothing else in our history, we should know by now not to give any Republican administration a slush fund - regardless of how many seeming "checks and balances" there may be. There's always a loophole.

The main question for me remains "Why?" Why is it necessary to take on this responsibility? Why now?