Photo of a young Iraqi boy I met at the market

Former UNSCOM arms inspector Scott Ritter ... "Economic sanctions ... failed. We're killing 5,000 kids under the age of five every month. Now people say Saddam's killing them, but ultimately, sanctions are killing them, and we shouldn't be supportive of something that causes innocent people to suffer to such a degree. Bombing Iraq, enforcing no-fly zones -- to what end? To what purpose?" ......"The sanctions regime being imposed on Iraq is a huge injustice being perpetrated by the United Nations at the behest of the United States. Sanctions were imposed on Iraq to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. ... But the purpose of sanctions is to create harm in Iraq. To create pain."

One of the UN people who talked to our group said, off camera, that they felt like "prostitutes" for the United States. This person told us told that they would quit if they didn't have so many years invested in their job and so close to retirement.

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