Opinion | The Iraq War, a monumental blunder | The Copenhagen Post | The Danish News in English: "Instead of their intended effect, the sanctions led to a widespread humanitarian disaster that, according to UN estimates, cost the lives of 500,000 Iraqi children before they reached the age of five. In that respect, there were plenty of good reasons to take a look at our approach to Iraq. In one of the darkest and least pleasant chapters of modern history, the West chose not to step in to prevent the humanitarian disaster from growing.Iraq was, of course, permitted to sell its oil and purchase food and medicine with the proceeds, but everyone knew that the biggest beneficiaries of the Oil-for-Food programme were Western companies, shady Iraqi middle men and Saddam’s lackeys. As food and medicine grew increasingly scarce, the number of children who died grew, water became ever more polluted, poverty deepened, sickness spread and the death toll mounted."
Certain elites made millions of dollars while the children and elderly suffered and died.
ReplyDeleteAlbright had no problems with it though.
She thought it was all worth it.
It was not her children that were suffering and facing death.