Gunny
Gold Member
the sanctions were working. Our own secretary of state explicitly said exactly that months BEFORE 9/11.
And you know better. The sanctions were causing suffering amongst the rank and file Iraqi. Saddam meanwhile was siphoning off Oil for Food bucks into his personal stash, and making deals with France purchasing their UN vote for cut-rate oil.
Saddam defied the UN to the end. All he had to do was comply with the terms of a ceasefire HE agreed to. The ink wasn't even dry before he was defying it.