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To understand the issue, we first need to consider what the UN
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wanted the sanctions to accomplish in Iraq. Following the Gulf War, the
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UN Security Council passed Resolution 687 on April 3, 1991. This
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resolution called on Iraq to destroy all its weapons of mass destruction and
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pay its war debts. The resolution also implemented economic sanctions
against Iraq until it complied with the UN’s expectations. These sanctions
restricted the sale to Iraq of everything from health care supplies to
building materials to food. In addition, the sanctions blocked Iraq from
exporting all goods except for a limited amount of oil. The money made
from the sale of this oil would be used to pay war debts and buy food and
medicine. Resolution 687 also set up an organization to monitor the
payment of the war debts and make sure that Iraq destroyed all its
weapons of mass destruction (“United Nations”).
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On the one hand, sanctions seem partly to have worked. Some
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experts argue that sanctions have contained Saddam Hussein’s aggression.
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Hussein does not control all of his own country, he cannot use money
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from oil sales for weapons, his efforts to secretly build weapons of mass
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destruction are being thwarted, and he is less of a threat to neighboring
countries, such as Kuwait (Yaphe 127). Also, supporters say that food and
medicine are allowed into Iraq. For these reasons, many people continue
to support sanctions as a way to prevent Hussein from developing weapons
of mass destruction, especially in light of the September 11 attacks on the
World Trade Towers and the Pentagon.
On the other hand, sanctions have not been completely successful.
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Saddam Hussein has been uncooperative from the start, especially about
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UN inspections of Iraq’s weapon sites. He continues to find ways to raise
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money, and he is still able to acquire weapons by smuggling them
(Cortright and Lopez 744). In fact, Hussein also has succeeded at
manipulating UN sanctions so that they hurt his own people and raise
international opposition. As David Cortright and George Lopez,
international peace negotiators at the University of Notre Dame, put it,
“[a] policy designed to exert pressure on an aggressor regime has been
perverted by that regime into a virtual attack on innocents” (745). While
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