Case in point, indeed.
If Saddam Hussein had abided by the UN agreement imposed after the Gulf War (after he had been thrown out of Kuwait), the sanctions would have been lifted.
Iraqis suffered and died (to the extent they actually did) because of SADDAM HUSSEIN.
The West ain't going on your guilt trip, nor should it.
OK, skinky. Time for a truth test.
1. Is it true that the publicly-stated reason for the sanctions, as well as the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq, was to put pressure on the Iraqi people to overthrow the villainous, ruthless tyrant who George Bush the Elder compared to Adolph Hitler? (I never heard the words, "regime change" until recently, but that was what they had in mind from the start.)
2. Is it true that the embargo on food, medicine and armaments merely allowed Saddam Hussein to use his foreign exchange dollars on palaces and other luxuries, since his former military suppliers in the old Soviet Union had by then gone out of business?
3. Is it true that, in spite of worsening conditions for the people of Iraq, no viable opposition to Hussein has surfaced since the end of the Gulf War?
4. Is it true that, despite incontrovertible evidence and damning testimony from those directly involved, it proved impossible to effect a regime change right here in the good old US of A against a known liar and philanderer? One who, allegedly, kept secret files on his opponents?
Would you have favored UN intervention to save the country from Clinton?