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ME ! Fool, you are not even close to funny. Ask yourself why we are continuing sanctions against Iraq when they are not achieving the objectives, as we understand them, against Saddam ? Simply, why ? They have not toppled him from power. They have not curtailed his thirst for buidling his war state. He and his circle of cronies have grown richer in the decade since the war. Thousand of Iraqi citizens have died and will continue to die as long as these 'sanctions' are in place. What does the U.S. have to gain from the slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians ? What does it have to gain from the slaiughter of innocent Afghani people ? OIL ! Money. Ugly Corporate Profiteering ! Nothing more. Saddam loves the U.S. He knows the CIA is conducting a cheap public relations campaign by keeping these useless sanctions in place so a few rich insider friends can continue to reap vast wealth from the suffering of Iraqi people.
The world needs some evidence that the sanctions are having an effect. Since Saddam is not going anywhere, and we all know that, the next best target are the people. Their condition serves as a much better gauge for the effect of the sanctions than the condition of Saddam's government which cannot be gauged without a video camera stroll through the interior of this departmental offices or through a mass international audit.
The CIA needs Saddam. The CIA needs stability on the ground in Aghanistan, in so far as they need puppets they can control. The Taliban could not be controlled. Our government would not sink to the required depth of depravity the CIA judged was needed if certain measures were to be implemented. So they found and blackmailed a lame duck scientist into producing a mass strain of Anthrax to poison the elected leadership, clearing a few bureacratic obstacles, killing off a few pesky Anti-Establsihment types, and whipping up the national fever for decisive military action overseas. Simple. Hello ?