Has this supposed 500000 child deaths been verified? How?
I suspect this number has always been propaganda. It was used by Saddam to argue that the economic sanctions were only hurting children and should be lifted.
So then they instituted the Oil for Food program to save the poor starving children. And now we know that Saddam siphoned off the money and used it for himself. With the complicity of the U.N. and others.