Safer thru Iraq war?
Safer thru Iraq war?
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ten years of sanctions did more that the war on a humanitarian level.
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'The average Iraqi was often forced to live in horrific conditions based on these Draconian sanctions,” Haddad explained. “Prior to the Gulf War of 1991, they lived in a relatively modern society, heavily dependent on electricity. In 1991, we bombed many non-military targets – for example, electrical distribution centers and generating plants, waste disposal and water purification centers, factories. The result was that Iraq went from being an industrial country to a pre-industrial state, but one still heavily dependent on a vanished electrical supply.'