Sanctions continue to malnourish and kill. Sanctions are undermining the cultural and educational recovery of Iraq, and will not change its system of governance. Sanctions encourage isolation, alienation and fanaticism. Sanctions destroy the family, undermine women's social and economic advances and encourage a brain-drain. Sanctions constitute a serious breach of the United Nations Charter on Human Rights and children's rights.
Sanctions are a counter-productive, bankrupt concept that has led to unacceptable human suffering.
And sanctions have an impact on all of us-not only those in Iraq, but those of us outside who need to work with and look forward to Iraq's reentry into the international community. I thank you very much, Congressmen.