] Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew
] about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by
] Saddam Hussein's regime, and did so to shore up alliances
] with Iraq's neighbors.
]
] The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan
] appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S.
] government and the United Nations for years.
]
] The unclassified State Department documents sent to
] congressional committees with oversight of U.S. foreign
] policy divulge that the United States deemed such sales
] to be in the "national interest," even though they
] generated billions of dollars in unmonitored revenue for
] Saddam's regime.

[ Wow. Super. -k]