[Steve_Seattle]

"The sanctions didn't kill anyone."

We were TOLD they did, over and over in the world media. My opinion is that if they killed anyone, it's because Saddam wanted it to happen so he could manipulate world opinion to lift the sanctions. When Madeline Albright was confronted with the accusation of 500,000 dead Iraqi children caused by the sanctions, she did not deny it, she justified it on the basis of the threat posed by Saddam.

[Rummyfan]

The sanctions DID NOT kill anyone - they simply made Kofi Anan and a host of other UN bureaucrats and European bankers rich. Oil for Food = Oil for Fraud!

[Shermy]

“When Madeline Albright was confronted with the accusation of 500,000 dead Iraqi children caused by the sanctions, she did not deny it, she justified it on the basis of the threat posed by Saddam.”

I used to think there might be something to it, but now know it was a UN scam co-written by an Iraqi. It was concocted with phony stats, birth certificates, and assumptions like women chose not to have fewer babies, many people left Iraq in those days, etc.

What they didn’t look at was death certificates. AS we have learned, Iraq isn’t Afghanistan, it has/had a relatively sophisticated medical system and burequcracy.

The Albright tv interview is famous “proof.” the way I read it, Albright was confronted with challenging the veracity of the UN - something she was ideologically loath to do.