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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Containment was working, and the sanctions were part of containment. The sanctions helped keep materiel out of Iraq.
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This chronology posted by the UN
here (1991-1999) and
here (1999 onward) on UN web sites (the earlier chronology including links to actual resolutions) of the zany inspection efforts would actually be a funny read but for the fact that while all this was going on, an estimated 5,000 infants and toddlers were dying PER MONTH in Iraq from sanctions-related causes. It's hard to read of all the obstruction and conclude, "the sanctions were working". A decade is long enough to pussyfoot around.
