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Originally posted by bhutocracy
meh.. it doesn't have to be so black and white, there could have been a very specific scaling back of the sanctions - there was a lot of medical equipment and whatnot that could have been released, and we or our AID proxies should have been in control of the food distrobution. I wouldn't have been relying on a cold blooded killer to take 5 star care of his people - it never helped us there more people that hate us the more terror we have to deal with. We also could have gone in sooner before he had the time to build up his forces.
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They adjusted the sanctions more then once, then came up with the oil for food program. It didn't matter. They weren't going to get the resources no matter what they did.
Also don't forget that the sanctions were UN. Not US, I'm not sure if it was you but I've seen US/UN sanctions in more then one post on this thread. They were UN Sanctions.