[jellybean]

They visited schools, hospitals and orphanages, all affected by sanctions placed on Iraq in August of 1990. Since the start of the sanctions, which are U.N.-imposed and U.S.-mandated in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, emergency medical supplies and equipment and educational materials have been scarce. Without water sanitation and properly functioning sewage systems, diseases such as cholera, typhus and dysentery thrive in Iraq, which was once described as practically first world by the U.N.

I thought the UN Oil for Food program was designed to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.

[randog]

I thought the UN Oil for Food program was designed to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.

And Michael Jackson and his "We Are The World" idiots thought they were feeding starving Ethiopians. Lib'rals are constitutionally incapable of seeing the world as it is, only as they it should be. That's why so many of them can't function in the real world.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

In planning for humanitarian needs before the U.S. invasion, the U.N. estimated 500,000 civilian casualties. The U.N. also projected millions more would lose their homes and lack access to food and clean water.

And where are the billions they obviously set aside for this? Are they just sitting on it? If they planned for this, as stated, what were their plans and why aren't they helping with the infrastructure problems. I guess it is as it has always been the UN talks big and then leaves it ti the USA to do the job - like replacing Saddam.