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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Lou Weed who wrote (99191)5/26/2003 9:29:30 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
res- yet we isolate a country that was crippled financially from years of UN sanctions

res- There's these forms of govt. and they're called autonomies or sometimes referred to as dictatorships. This means that the big Kahuna (dictator) can do whatever he wants with the wealth of the nation (whether ill-gotten or legitimate) that is under his control. In the case of Saddam he happened to have a fondness for lavish palaces while his country's debt grew and his people starved.

In the first statement you blame the U.N. for Iraq's economic problems. In the second statement you blame Saddam Hussein's dictatorial grip on the country.

Which do you think had the more profound effect?
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