This 'price' took the form of the systematic and continued destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure. Under the sanctions regime any spare parts required to rebuild it are often blocked by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee. Dilapidated sewage and water purification systems have trapped the vast majority of Iraq's population in a cycle of disease that was simply unheard of before sanctions were imposed. The situation has provoked two UN Humanitarian Aid Co-ordinators, and the head of the World Food Programme in Iraq, to resign in protest.
Doctors earn the equivalent of the price of an egg each day.
The vast majority of Iraqi assets are frozen world-wide. The food ration, depite being described by UN agencies as equitable and efficiently distributed, lasts at best 20 days out of every month. The claim that this is fostering the correct conditions for an uprising in Iraq is ridiculous at best, and a total lie at worst. Ordinary citizens are engaged in a daily struggle just to survive. The UK spends 4.5 million every month to keep troops in the Gulf.