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Need Some Wood?
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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
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.
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I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about WMD. Containment allowed a brutal dictator to continue to repress his people. It also didn't cost $200 billion and 20,000 Coalition lives.
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