“Lift the Sanctions Now”

Don’t miss Charles Krauthammer in today’s Washington Post on the cynicism of French and Russian opposition to the lifting of sanctions against Saddam’s regime:
“What are they after? They want a continuation of the oil-for-food program — Tommy Franks correctly called it the ‘oil-for-palace program’ — under which the United Nations has been using Iraqi oil proceeds to buy tons of goods largely from France, Russia and Syria (including equipment for ‘educational TV’ and boat ‘accessories,’ as Claudia Rosett notes in a devastating expos

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