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To: tejek who wrote (481175)	5/15/2009 4:13:32 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576000

Actually the formal goal was only that Iraq renounce all weapons of mass destruction-chemical, biological, and nuclear- and missiles with ranges above 150 kilometers and threat Iraq pay compensation and war reparations from the proceeds of future oil sales. Lots of expectations came to ride on this, both formally and informally. "The sanctions were intended to contain Saddam and to prevent him from attacking his neighbors.....a talent at which he seemed to excel......if you knew his history." See Sanctioning Iraq: The limits of the New World Oder, "Washington Qurarterly, Vol.17, No.3 (Summer 1994) Saddam Hussein's overthrow was not a formal goal of the UN but it was widely recognised and discussed as an informal goal of the US shortly after the Gulf war. see page 422: The international dimensions of internal conflict By Michael Edward Brown (1996) "Critics make two main observations to support their claim that sanctions have failed in Iraq. First, Saddam remains in power. Second, sanctions failed to induce Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait during the 1990-91 crisis. Their first argument measures sanctions against an unduly high standard of performance. National leaders who are firmly in power, as Saddam was in 1990, are very hard to unseat. Achieving their overthrow is perhaps the hardest task one could demeand of sanctions. Economic sanctions have failed at the same task. The failure of economic sanctions to bring about Saddam's political demise means their success in Iraq is only partial. However this should not obscure the successes they have achieved."

To: tejek who wrote (481175)	5/15/2009 4:39:45 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1576000

The sanctions were poorly conceived from the start. Some people were proposing revised sanctions that would avoid such humanitarian devastation but these were never considered by the political authorities so they effort at this point is a moot issue. As they stood, they were an embarrassment to global authority and a sin against humanity. The sanctions were failing on all the measures I presented to you, the facts support that and although some of the figures may have been revised the failures are not disputed, there is absolutely no doubt about it.