As you plan your gift giving this holiday season, please think of EPIC and be generous. President Clinton says that Baghdad is receiving tens of billions of dollars cash on the barrel and if there is any suffering it is entirely the fault of Saddam Hussein. He must know this is not true. No cash ever reaches Baghdad. Only UN-purchased goods are allowed to enter Iraq.
Sanctions contribute to massive poverty, unemployment, widespread disease and malnutrition.
Tonight, over two million children will go to bed hungry. This month, thousands of children will die. Already, sanctions have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives more than one million according to UN estimates. Internationally, nations are openly challenging the United States. In August, Venezuelan President Chavez became the first Head of State to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.