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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729669)	7/29/2013 2:32:13 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572598

That analogy does not work when the declared reasons for the sanctions were commonly understood to cause enough hardship to the populous that they would be compelled to engage in regime change on their own. That this agenda was failing is even more problematic. We can certainly blame Saddam for his brutal and inhuman tyranny but we have to give credit where credit is due. If anything the sanctions turned out to be aiding Saddam in the oppression he was happily imposing on his enemies within Iraq's borders. The original goals were specifically related to Persian Gulf War reparations, prohibition of support for terrorism and elimination of WMD and extended-range ballistic missiles. And, they seemed effective in that regard. However by 1998 we had the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which expressly stated the intent was the replacement of the regime. We constantly heard on going references mentioned by supporters the UN resolutions that the sanctions were expected to bring about regime change. On May 12, 1996, Madeleine Albright (then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) appeared on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "we think the price is worth it." In the New York Times Paul H. Lewis wrote, "Ever since the trade embargo was imposed on Aug. 6, after the invasion of Kuwait, the United States has argued against any premature relaxation in the belief that by making life uncomfortable for the Iraqi people it will eventually encourage them to remove President Saddam Hussein from power." Denis Halliday was appointed United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, Iraq as of 1 September 1997, at the Assistant Secretary-General level. In October 1998 he resigned after a 34 year career with the UN in order to have the freedom to criticise the sanctions regime, saying "I don't want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide"