David wrote:
I haven't paid too much attention to it, but I think the oil was never
meant to be traded directly for food. I think the name means that
Iraq was allowed to sell oil in order to be able to afford imported
edibles.

Actually, Iraq wasn't supposed to get any money out of it until after the
program ended. The UN was to get the money and use it to send food, medicine,
and supplies, and build schools, electrical power stations and the like.
Instead the money went to enrich Kofi and his kid and Saddam, and to buy
Iraq more embargoed armaments.

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