The Oil for food program is for medical and other humanitarian supplies and is being extended to rebuild infrastrucuture.

Anyone who had been reading the newspapers could have told you that war was inevitable two months before it started. My point is with some forethought the "race against the clock to identify priority items specified by the Security Council – food, medicines, health supplies, water and sanitation equipment and supplies – that can be extracted from the pipeline and shipped by 12 May" needn't have been a race.

The UN is highly relevant when you consider they are holding billions of Iraqi money in escrow.