Iraq Sanctions Quotes

“Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.”
― Roger Scruton, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Tell me,' the man leans forward and says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television how she felt about the fact that five hundred thousand Iraqi children had died as a result of US economic sanctions? Do you know what she said? She said that it was "a very hard choice" but "we think the price is worth it". These are her exact words. How do you feel about that?

'How do you think I feel about that? And I would take your love for children more seriously if you didn't have children cleaning your floors.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden