Two Plus Two Older Archives - iraq guns vs butter straw man

If it could be shown that the US:

1) deliberately and selectively bombed Iraqi water treatment facilities (and those which would affect citizens more than army units)

2) got sanctions in place for the specific purpose of making it hard for Iraq to treat its water while knowing that the greatest burden would fall on the young, ill and elderly, and

3) took the above steps for the primary purpose of applying internal pressure to Iraq, then I would probably condemn those actions. I'm not aware that this is what happened and frankly I don't know much about the subject in detail. I suspect there is a lot more to it than what has been laid out thus far in these threads. However I would not condone applying severe and lethal pressure to citizenry in order to hopefully produce internal pressure for a change in leadership. I hope that is not precisely what happened. However even if it did I would believe that Saddam could still be held partially at fault, for probably not taking steps to mitigate the effects. Tragically, he likely did anything he could to exacerbate the effects (anything that wouldn't look too bad, that is) so that he could use the results as an argument to have sanctions as a whole lifted.