Saddam Hussein said sanctions killed 500,000 children. That was “a spectacular lie.”

BEIRUT -- During the rush to wage war in Iraq in the early 2000s, one figure widely cited both to justify and oppose the U.S.-led invasion was that more than 500,000 children had died as a result of U.N.-imposed sanctions in the previous decade. Nearly two decades later, researchers at the London School of Economics […]

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