We also tried tightening the economic screws on Iraq before our - TopicsExpress



          

We also tried tightening the economic screws on Iraq before our first war with Saddam Hussein, starting in 1990, and it was highly effective—if the goal was to torment ordinary Iraqis who had no control over the government. Upward of half a million children died as a result of malnutrition and disease brought on by the embargo. The tyrant we were straining to dislodge, however, stayed in power until the U.S. invasion of 2003.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:44:06 +0000

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