When Asked about the 1 million dead Iraqi children due to Clinton's sanctions, why did M. Albright say?

Question

"it was worth it".

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

--60 Minutes (5/12/96)

http://home.comcast.net/~dhamre/Albright01.wmv

Answer 1

Yes, I remember the United Nations report saying that sanctions were killing 5,000 people a month, mostly children and old folks. Lets do the math... round it off to ten years, 120 months times 5,000...wow, the mind boggles! 600,000 dead under the UN sanctions, Bill Clinton, and Saddam Hussein. George Bush is saving lives!

Answer 2

Because the Clinton Administration thought by doing this, it would turn the Iraqi people against Saddam Hussein, and overthrow him, even if the sacrifice was close to 2 million Iraqis dying. But it actually had the opposite effect, and his power became more tenacious. So you have mass sanctioned genocide, with the same dictator in power at the same time. Could the US government become any more diabolical?

Answer 3

On August 6, 1990 the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 661 which imposed stringent economic sanctions on Iraq, providing for a full trade embargo, excluding medical supplies, food and other items of humanitarian necessity, these to be determined by the Security Council sanctions committee. After the end of the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi sanctions were linked to removal of Weapons of mass destruction by Resolution 687.The United Nations economic sanctions were imposed at the urging of the U.S. to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The New York Times stated: "By making life uncomfortable for the Iraqi people, [sanctions] would eventually encourage them to remove President Saddam Hussein from power" (Seattle-Post Intelligencer August 7, 2003, archived at: [2]). In as much as the economic sanctions were designed to topple Saddam they were a failure, however the sanctions caused the death of between 400 000 and 800 000 Iraqi children (Seatlle-Post Intelligencer August 7, 2003, archived at: [3]; Hartford Courant, October 23, 2000,



George H. W. Bush
Forty-First President
1989-1993

Answer 4

Is today's quagmire worth 655,000 and growing (At this rate, the death toll from Bush's war will exceed the sanctions and even Saddam's reign very soon).

Answer 5

You mean Bush's sanctions right?

Answer 6

Please provide an independent, unbiased, verifiable, valid link to prove your assertion!