Sanctions are perfectly legal.
They have a clear objective which is to prevent Saddam Hussein rebuilding his weapons of mass destruction programme. I think it's quite clear that the precise intention of Saddam Hussein is to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction programme both nuclear and chemical. But we do know first of all that sanctions are hurting ordinary Iraqi people and that is causing a lot of disquiet in the West. What is hurting the Iraqi people is the fact that Saddam Hussein is using the existence of sanctions as a propaganda weapon in order to deny to his own people the medical and food supplies which they need. But the point is that ten years after the Gulf War Saddam appears to be stronger than ever and has a lot more in the Arab world behind him than he had ten years ago.