Rustic Rebel: who do you blame for the sanctions in Iraq? Let me guess! The US of A, right! Wrong! Try Saddam. He could have had the sanctions lifted at anytime if he had done what he agreed to do at the ceasefire in 1991!

Don: thanks for checking on that 250,000 figure. I have searched too, and I cannot find such an estimate anywhere. I can't conceive the figure will be that high.

DougR