At the end of January, Kofi Annan called off the “strike” the United Nations declared in Iraq and agreed to return some staff to “ascertain the views of a broad spectrum of Iraqi society in the search for alternatives that might be developed to move [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Maybe that 500,000 people died during a decade of sanctions which did nothing to harm Hussein might remind us exactly how much the UN cares about Iraqi civilians, and by extension, civilians of any other nation.
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