More young and old Iraqis are dying and will continue to die. Saddam Hussein's behavior in and around Iraq has been characterized as reckless. The same can be said about US policy as a result of its reactionary mode. In the name of teaching Saddam a lesson, the United States decided to punish the Iraqi people with economic and military retribution. Hospitals are filled with the weak, both young and old who are dying slowly because of the lack of clean drinking water and the absence of medicine.
Malnutrition is the norm.
Hospitals have become nothing more than the final stop before the cemetery. At the end of every crisis with Saddam, the US has tacitly acknowledged that he is the power in Iraq. Without him there is no US-led coalition. Saddam is part of the status quo in the Middle East. When he was a friend of the US he massacred Kurds and Iraqis as brutally as he does now.