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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (113978)	9/5/2003 6:15:07 AM
From: quehubo	Respond to of 281500

So you think a total embargo would have resulted in less death than the containment that let some humanitarian aid in and some oil out. My guess is that the containment was fairly effective in the first few years, but the UN members violated the containment increasingly in the last few years. <<In 1997 UNICEF estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis had died as a result of the sanctions over the previous seven years. Including the period since then, it is estimated that over 1.5 million people have died, the majority being those already most vulnerable in society: the very young, the elderly and the sick.>> kairoscanada.org