{"id":34,"date":"2004-04-29T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2004-04-29T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T20:45:32","slug":"the-dregs-of-iraqs-oil-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The dregs of Iraq’s Oil-for-food"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was an interesting read…
\n[Oil For Terror]:http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/cRosett\/?id=110005011<\/p>\n

It’s a look on the UN’s Oil-for-food program for Saddam’s Iraq. Yes, well, um… hm… somehow, it doesn’t seem that the sanctions had as much to do with Iraqi economic difficulties. One of the stories: a shell company setup by senior officials of Saddam’s regime was a UN-authorized purchaser of Iraqi oil. Also, why would the United Arab Emirates purchase oil from Iraq?<\/p>\n

I thought it was worth reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was an interesting read… [Oil For Terror]:http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/cRosett\/?id=110005011 It’s a look on the UN’s Oil-for-food program for Saddam’s Iraq. Yes, well, um… hm… somehow, it doesn’t seem that the sanctions had as much to do with Iraqi economic difficulties. One …<\/p>\n

Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}