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According to U.S. News and World Report, January 15, 1998, the United Nations estimates that nearly one million Iraqi children are chronically malnourished. Infant mortality and waterborne illnesses are also up dramatically.(Omstad 42) These problems are a direct result of economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United States. Thomas Omstad, a field reporter for U.S. News and World Report describes the sanctions as, “a blunt instrument that can clearly take innocent lives.” It is …

…sanctions are weighed with the benefits of sanctions we relize that there are very few, if any benefits, and the costs are immense. These costs include shunning by the world of innocent children, a lack of much needed dugs and medical supplies in third world countries, and a hit to the United States economy. All of these factors state that the use of economic sanctions to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals is not moral.