Much more of the money is given to the UN to administer the program than arrives in Iraq to feed people. But most of the money lies in American banks benefiting those same banks as funds conveniently await the approval of contracts by the UN 661 committee. If anything has revealed the true face of the UN it is the complete inhumanity and brutality of the sanction against Iraq. Only 9.6 billion has reached Iraq in food. 13.6 billion is kept by the UN for administering the program.
Malnutrition is visible in a generation of children and teenagers who are small in size.
They contrast dramatically to their parent generation who is large and bony. Too many children whom I questioned turned out to be between 3 to 5 years older than I expected. Based on their size, I had expected them to be younger. This is due to to malnutrition. Visiting schools brought us in direct contact with children as did visiting the markets where many children scrounge a living for themselves and their families.