Madeleine Albright - the price of sanctions CBS - EN

Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State, in 1996, as US ambassador to the United Nations, expressed in a CBS interview whether the embargo against Iraq for alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, which according to UN estimates at the time cost more than 500,000 children's lives, was worth the price. In her opinion, this was a moral question, but in her opinion there was an even greater moral question: Does the United States not owe it to the American public and the American military, as well as Iraq's neighboring states, that Saddam Hussein no longer threatens them with weapons of mass destruction.
After another war against the country, it was clear that these weapons of mass destruction, which were both a pretext for sanctions and for the war against Iraq, never existed.