impact the economy, thereby limiting the actions of the countries leader and

creating an atmosphere to direct change (Gordon 18). While there is

considerable research that suggests that the economic impacts of these

sanctions have hurt the general population more than the leadership, there

are a number of solid arguments in support for continued U.N.-directed

sanctions and military support for these sanctions by the United States.

The arguments against sanctions in Iraq are not based in the military issues

or the problems of peacekeeping, but instead in claims that the continued

actions in Iraq violate humanitarian principles (Gordon 18). In the Spring

of 1999, the continued U.S. bombings in Iraq drew attention away from

existing debates about the nature of U.N directed sanctions and their impact

on the Iraqi populous as a whole (Gordon 18). The imposing of economic

sanctions against Iraq under the directives of Articles 41 and 42 of the U.

N. Charter was based in the commitment to peacekeeping efforts and were

based in the belief that by crippling the economy of Iraq, it would be

possible to bring Saddam Hussein into complicity with U. N. directiv

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