Do Something Useful Congress

With the Oil For Food scandal reaching the very top of the UN bureaucracy, it's apparent that we can expect no accounting from that body. The Wall Street Journal thinks that it's about time that Congress looked into it.

"After months of stonewalling, Secretary General Kofi Annan conceded Tuesday that the program was worthy of an internal investigation. It's a step forward, but it's not nearly enough for an organization that so far has shown it can't be trusted to police itself. That's why the April hearings by Henry Hyde's House Committee on International Relations will be so important. Oil for Food is a legitimate U.S. concern, for reasons that go well beyond the fact that U.S. taxpayers foot about a quarter of the U.N.'s bills."

We do deserve to know how our billions are being spent and we need to know how trustworthy is a body that the Democratic presidential nominee would subordinate our self-defense to.