[Stealth_raptor]

Hmm...Some info about Sanctions, etc.

http://www.accuracy.org/iraq.htm

April 3, 1991: U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 687 which states that upon "the completion by Iraq of all actions contemplated in" specific paragraphs of the resolution, "the prohibitions against financial transactions ... shall have no further force or effect."

November 26, 1997: UNICEF reports that "The most alarming results are those on malnutrition, with 32 per cent of children under the age of five, some 960,000 children, chronically malnourished -- a rise of 72 per cent since 1991. Almost one quarter (around 23 per cent) are underweight -- twice as high as the levels found in neighbouring Jordan or Turkey."

http://rwor.org/a/v23/1110-19/1119/iraq_water.htm

These sanctions have inflicted death, disease, and suffering on an enormous scale. In 1997 the UN reported that over 1.2 million Iraqis had died since the Gulf War as a result of medical shortages caused by the war and sanctions, including 750,000 children below the age of five. In 1999, UNICEF, the UN organization focusing on children, reported that Iraqi kids under five are dying at twice the rate they were before the sanctions began, now estimated to be 5,000 deaths per month. Much of this suffering can be traced to the U.S. coalition's destruction of Iraq's water system. Eight out of every ten instances of disease in Iraq today results from contaminated water, and Iraqi children are dying from the diseases of impure water--like diarrhea.

http://www.arabmediawatch.com/module...article&sid=67

Seven years after the imposition of the blockade on the people of Iraq, more than 1.2 million people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died because of the scarcity of food and medicine. - Verified by the UN, June 1997.

[quote]"Sanctions are inhibiting the importation of spare parts, chemicals, reagents, and the means of transportation required to provide water and sanitation services to the civilian population of Iraq.