In pointing to the suffering inflicted on the people of Iraq by the US, we mustn't forget the dozen years of sanctions that preceded G.W.Bush's 2003 invasion. The sanctions, engineered by the US and Britain through their control of the relevant UN machinery, killed about as many Iraqis as the war that followed. The price, in Madeleine Albright's notorious assessment, was "worth it."
In pointing to the suffering inflicted on the people of Iraq by the US, we mustn't forget the dozen years of sanctions that preceded G.W.Bush's 2003 invasion. The sanctions, engineered by the US and Britain through their control of the relevant UN machinery, killed about as many Iraqis as the war that followed. The price, in Madeleine Albright's notorious assessment, was "worth it."