id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uc1.b5155035 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. United States policy toward Iraq : hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, March 1, 2001 2001 .txt text/plain 4521 246 63 sanction regime and the international coalition against Iraq have The threat that Iraq poses to its own people and to the decent nations of this world will remain for as long embargo on Iraq, while continuing and even tightening where possible strict prohibitions on military imports. recognize that an important goal of the present sanctions is to block the government's access to foreign exchange which could be used to finance imports for military and weapons-development purposes. This new approach does not represent a fail-safe means of containing Iraq's proliferation threat, or ensuring compliance with relevant Security Council obligations. The argument against military forces encourages us to ignore the hundreds of millions spent each year to contain Iraq and the 47 American lives lost What is clear cut is that the Iraqi people are suffering as a consequence of Saddam Hussein's policy of diverting United Nations ./cache/uc1.b5155035.pdf ./txt/uc1.b5155035.txt