Seven Years of Sanctions Against Iraq

Seven Years of Sanctions

"Sanctions" have been in place against Iraq since the Gulf War -- that means for seven years, now. We don't often find ourselves quoting the New England Journal of Medicine, but today we will:

  "The Cuban and Iraqi instances make it abundantly 
  clear that economic sanctions are, at their 
  core, a war against public health. Our 
  professional ethic demands the defense of public 
  health. Thus, as physicians, we have a moral 
  imperative to call for the end of sanctions. 
  Having found the cause, we must act to remove it.  
  Continuing to allow our reason to sleep will produce 
  more monsters."
    - New England Journal of Medicine (Editorial), 
       24 April 1997

Here's a link (requiring frames) to the homepage of the Iraq Action Coalition, where more information on the horrific effects of seven years of "sanctions" may be found.

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