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I am personally glad Bush made a couple issues clear. I was wondering myself. He has said no draft. So obviously that was just some evil rumour. Kudos to him for saying sanctions didn't work. This is a bit of a pet issue for me. Sanctions don't work anywhere period. In fact they are cruel b/c the ones it affects are not the villains at the top, but their peons at the bottom. You can be sure Saddam ate very well despite the sanctions. Sanctions are the result of politicians without conviction. It is what nations do that are too cowardly or distracted to go to war to deal with a tyrant. I believe that sanctions did more damage to the Iraqi people than the collateral damage of 2 Gulf Wars. Roosevelt tried sanctions and embargos on Japan but we ended going to war in the end anyhow.

Yep, sanctions don't work very well at all. North Korea is another example. The people are eating grass while their Beloved Leader flies in chefs from around the world to fix him pizza.