Oil for Food Scandal: If you simply don't have time to watch Monday's 3 hour 30 minute Senate panel investigation, by all means, please check out the this morning's Washington Journal segment (RealVideo) with Sen. Norm Coleman, Chair of the subcommitee. It's under 30 minutes.

One funny highlight: On Washington Journal, C-SPAN asks viewers calling in to use one of three phone lines based on their political ideology and they alternate between those lines as they put the callers on the air. When the topic is something as universally condemnable as this scandal is, it is interesting to hear one side or the other reaching for some ideological point. This morning was one of the best. One caller from New York on the "Democrats" line (20:50 into the clip) accused Senator Coleman of engaging in a conspiracy to take down the powerful non-white men in the world, citing Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. Nevermind the fact that Benon Sevan is white, and Kofi Annan could easily un-implicate himself by simply cooperating with investigators instead of obstructing them.

Questions about how much money was siphoned away from the oil-for-food program, and the money's ultimate use, were particularly troubling, he added, because of allegations that Benon V. Sevan, who was in charge of the United Nations program, had benefited from special allocations of oil from Mr. Hussein.

Mr. Sevan has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

However, Charles A. Duelfer, the top American weapons investigator in Iraq, who was the Senate panel's first witness, told the committee on Monday that based on Iraqi documents and what Iraqi officials had told him, he believed that Mr. Sevan had been given 13 million barrels of oil in special oil allocations.

This UNSCAM corruption makes Enron look like a purse snatching, just in sheer size of the loot. On top of that, Jeff Skilling was certainly not using the proceeds of his crime to reinstitute a WMD program, stockpile conventional weapons and bribe U.N. Security council members.

A Senate committee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food program for Iraq estimates that during 13 years of international sanctions, Saddam Hussein's government made at least $21.3 billion illicitly - more than double previous government estimates.

Anyone still in favor of going to the U.N. to ask permission to defend our nation, raise your hand.