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To: one_less who wrote (9179)	3/20/2001 5:42:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Currently, we are charging Saddam for the expenses we incur while maintaining the fly over restrictions and economic sanctions. Our morality is that he can't make a weapon of mass destruction, but we can target and CAUSE the deaths of millions of innocent children and villagers in the regions lying outside of his regime to "make a point." So, far the point hasn't been made with Saddam since he'd be happy to have those villagers out of his hair anyway. You have a point but you are exagerating it. Its probably more like hundreds of thousands of deaths not millions. This fact does not invalidate your point or make the deaths any less of a tradgedy. How much of the deaths can be atributed to the sanctions is another unclear question. The sanctions do allow for food and medicine to be sold to Iraq, and even for oil sales to fund food and medicine purchases. But even considering this the sanctions are a failed policy. They where put in place to make Saddam allow inspections but he prefers the sanctions to the inspections. After all of the mistakes that have been made in this situation I'm not sure if there is a good choice left but the lesser evil might be to lift many of the sanctions. Tim

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