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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Ty, unless you can answer this now, please don't ever challenge the statement about the world believing Sadaam had WMD.
Why did the UN impose, and continue sanctions that were starving the Iraqui people if the member countries* did not believe he had the WMD's?
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Sanctions were imposed and maintained for a variety of reasons, beginning before the first Gulf War and continuing until after the second Gulf War.
The sanctions regime you're referring to began after the first Gulf War, and its removal was contingent upon Iraq satisfying many conditions. Chief among them, but not the only problem, was Iraq's failure to provide proof that it had complied with the various U.N. resolutions requiring WMD disarmament as a condition for ending the 1st Gulf War. Iraq also had failed to pay the requisite reparations to Kuwait, failed to account for and return a number of Kuwaiti captives after the war, etc.
What were you asking, again?
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