The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 were the most comprehensive and devastating of any established in the name of international governance. The sanctions, coupled with the bombing campaign of 1991, brought about the near collapse of Iraq’s infrastructure and profoundly compromised basic conditions necessary to sustain life.
via hup.harvard.edu
This book looks like it would be a useful read for anyone who is still trying to understand whether “we should be there” and why we went in the first place.
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