>Please stop this nonsense: these children are dying because Hussein won't
>import the medicines they need.
So you're taking a position to the right of the Council on Foreign Relations, which published this article in the May/June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs?
>SANCTIONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION John Mueller and Karl Mueller
>
>As Cold War threats have diminished, so-called weapons of mass
>destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and
>ballistic missiles -- have become the new international bugbears.
>The irony is that the harm caused by these weapons pales in
>comparison to the havoc wreaked by a much more popular tool:
>economic sanctions. Tally up the casualties caused by rogue states,
>terrorists, and unconventional weapons, and the number is
>surprisingly small. The same cannot be said for deaths inflicted by
>international sanctions. The math is sobering and should lead the
>United States to reconsider its current policy of strangling Iraq.
Doug