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To: one_less who wrote (213354)	1/17/2007 12:42:30 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I'm not sure we can be all that certain about the conditions. If calculations about something as...hard, and ascertainable, as WMD could be wrong, then (imo) just about anything could be. Obviously in countries headed by negligent or malicious heads of state children will suffer. But children suffer much more in Africa (for example) than they do in Iraq. Any child suffering is horrible, but unfortunately they suffer everywhere- even here, in the US, where (imo, again) there is no excuse to have such suffering. Since the sanctions had so many loop holes for humanitarian relief and aid, they didn't have that much direct impact (imo)- but IF (and it's a big if) they caused Saddam to cease improving programs for child health and welfare, than they did have an impact in that way. I just don't find this all that compelling, and I do wonder about the UNICEF extrapolation. But of course we agree on the proposition that children should be protected from the bite of sanctions- and I think, in general, our government tries to keep that in mind as well.

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