Why didn't America lift the sanctions on Iraq after Saddam destroyed his WMD?

Question

Everyone now admits there is no evidence of Iraq having any WMD after 1991, when it complied with the UN resolution to destroy its WMD and provide proof that it did so.

Everyone on the Security Council wanted to accept that proof and lift the sanctions. Except the United States and Britain, which wanted to keep the WMD issue alive and eventually used it as a pretext to invade Iraq in 2003.

The problem is, those sanctions killed over one million Iraqis, including over half a million children. Aren't the US and Britain responsible for those deaths?

Answer 1

How would ending the sanctions have helped us get the oil?

Madeleine Albright says that the deaths of those 500,000 kids was "worth it."

Answer 2

Your use of the term, "everyone" is false. Not "everyone" wanted to accept that proof. The UN had not completed inspections due to the fact that the inspectors were being toyed with by Saddam.

Not "everyone" has admitted there was no evidence of WMD in Iraq. That's a false generalization as well.

Those sanctions didn't kill over one million Iraqis. Saddam killed them by taking the medicine and money from his own people. The sanctions went into effect in 1991. Between 1991 and 2003, Saddam built more palaces, invested money in his family and did NOTHING for his people. He started the "Victory over America" palace in an area that was poor and broken. He took water from irrigation to fill his lakes on the compound. Everything around the complex was ruined.

It wasn't the sanctions. It was his own policies.

Answer 3

I say an same. i do not locate something not problem-free, or no longer plausible in burying the WMD conteiners someplace interior the desert waste promote off, or promoting them to a allied usa. an same like Iraqi airforce being flown into the Iran, who surprisignly refused to go back the planes after the conflict became over. besides that is disputable no matter if the bigger evil is the Dictator that posses the WMD yet no longer guts to apply them, or the country finished of unleashed fanatics blowing one yet another away.

Answer 4

The reasons given for invading Iraq were indeed completely fabricated. James Risen, the New York Times national security correspondent highlights the following in his book, State Of War: The Secret History Of The CIA and The Bush Administration (Free Press):

The CIA and the president had overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no nuclear weapons programs during the run up to the Iraq war obtained from 30 scientists who had worked on the nuclear project. In fact, there was overwhelming evidence received from other inside sources that Iraq had discontinued its nuclear program in 1992.

The false evidence used was provided by an Iraqi informant named Curveball, who was discovered to have fabricated to the story due to lack of corroboration and control by the CIA. The intelligence from Curveball formed the basis which was used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Members of the CIA were warned by the Germans for whom Curveball was the Iraqi intel source that Curveball was mentally unstable and had suffered a nervous breakdown. They also warned the CIA not to include information provided by the source as it was fabricated.

The CIA provided Iran with the blueprints and plans for its current nuclear program.

Before 9/11 the CIA warned that Osama Bin Laden was a threat to the United States but these intelligence reports were ignored and the annalists responsible for the reports were either sidelined or fired. These reports languished in storage for the last few months months of the Clinton administration and for a time under Bush's administration

Before the invasion of Iraq, a meeting was called with various CIA members, informing them that the invasion of Iraq had been on Bush's agenda since he took office and that 9/11 had delayed it.

Where Britain and the US are at fault they must be held responsible.

Answer 5

Well that was just a lame excuse for attacking the Iraq, and no one could ask them because they have veto power.........I hate this veto power, by keeping this with them they are realy ruling the world somehow !!!

Yes Britain and US are responsible for those millions of deaths in the world...........and i realy don't know how will they reply when one day they will be asked and how would they be mentioned in history for all this brutality !!!

Answer 6

there was no evidence of Saddam Not producing WMD's

you do recall the UN inspectors getting kicked out of the country practically every week right?

maybe you don't because that's called a fact and you don't deal with facts.

If you pay real close attention and look up something called the "food for oil" scandal, you may notice Saddam was selling his oil for cash, now where was that money going, I mean after all Saddam was such a humanitarian right?

the sanctions allowed Iraq to sell oil for food, but Saddam sold the oil to keep him and his sons in the lifestyles they enjoyed (which included rape, murder and torture).

But again these Facts just seem to get in the way of your personal dislike for the US and the President.

you know who let all those Iraqis die?

Well here is a hint, two have been rotting in graves for a while now, and the other just did the long drop on the short rope.

try using fact not opinion thanks.

Answer 7

because they would play games, you can inspect, now you cant,now you can,now you cant and there where other things needed to lift the sanctions not just the wmd, that didn't get talked about that he failed to live up to , like human right issues,and not distributing aid to the country and building 20 mansions all over town and secret bunkers, THAT'S WHY! do some research before you try to criticize!

Answer 8

Clinton needed an excuse to "look tough" on defense and try and distract people from the Lewinsky scandal.

Bush needed an excuse to funnel taxpayer money to his cronies.

Any other questions?

Answer 9

He never destroyed his WMD's you moron, he never proved that he got rid of them. He only let the inspectors into sites that he approve of. You are a negligent and a gullible man if you believe this. I would like to hope that you are a conservative trying to act absurd, but i don't think that is the case. He had a year and a half to move them out of his country and into Syria, Iran, Russia or anyone else who wanted WMD's at a discount price. HE USED THEM ON HIS OWN PEOPLE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, ARE YOU THIS F*CKING DUMB AND IGNORANT?????!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU GIVE SADDAM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT OVER OUR OWN PRESIDENT!!!!!!!

Answer 10

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