First of all let me tell -you and your audience- that... --- the U.S. considers life a most preeminent sacred value; specially the ones of non-combatant children. The figure you say you have heard is completely false: it is out of any contact with real life: A serious study by a very well respected think tank concluded that X. ¡No way our sanctions against Iraq are the direct cause of half a million children deaths inside Iraq! The link made between that figure and U.S. sanctions is a fallacy. Let me explain why: Iraq's children population is n million; Iraq`s mortality annual rate among those less than 16-years-old had been averaging n in the past decade; U.S. sanctions are not targeted against children; U.S. sanctions are target against a dictatorial regime and it are centered around making Iraq unable to do X, Y y Z...

Source author: Eric Suzán Reed esuzan@sre.gob.mx