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I'd like to see Hillary questioned on the history of Iraq Sanctions during Bill Clinton's presidency

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(Edit: clarifying note, I’m asking about this policy as a US policy, and it'd be the same question had it been another president than Bill Clinton.

As far as I know, Hillary had nothing to do with the policy on the sanctions, and this is not to claim any ‘shared guilt' for her on the topic.)

During Bill Clinton’s presidency, I was very critical of the sanctions on Iraq that led to very high civilian casualties, especially among children.

It seemed to me the administration had a callous view of the issue — trumpeting the evils of Saddam (which was correct) and seeming to show no concern for the casualties that seemed unjustified.

The sanctions had portions that were against weapons that were effective, but also against economic activity and medical goods that seemed to needlessly hurt only the innocent.

We’ve had a lot of recriminations against the Iraq war under Bush, but I don’t think we’ve had the review and condemnations we should of the Clinton sanctions policies (enforced by the UN).

Estimates of the number of children under 5 killed by the sanctions are several hundred thousand, largely around 500,000.

From Wikipedia, UN officials resigned in protest over the misguided sanctions’ harm: “Denis Halliday was appointed United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, Iraq as of 1 September 1997, at the Assistant Secretary-General level. In October 1998 he resigned after a 34-year career with the UN in order to have the freedom to criticise the sanctions regime, saying "I don't want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide"...

Halliday's successor, Hans von Sponeck, subsequently also resigned in protest, calling the effects of the sanctions a "true human tragedy".[30] Jutta Burghardt, head of the World Food Program in Iraq, followed them.”

en.wikipedia.org/…

Hillary has criticized some policies of that administration in hindsight, such as some of the increases in incarceration. I’d like to see her comment on this, and hopefully criticize it as well.

I think it would also be a very helpful topic in helping to understand her foreign policy views, to answer the questions between the more ‘neocon’ thinking and the more progressive thinking.


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