Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors:
"LIFT the ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ"

WHEREAS the United Nations, led by the United States, has enforced economic sanctions on Iraq for more than nine years, resulting in over half a million deaths of children under the age of five due to inadequate water, foods and medicine (according to the latest UNICEF report, published August 12, 1999); and

WHEREAS these sanctions, first imposed to force the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, and continued later to eliminate a weapons threat and encourage democratic leadership, have instead strengthened Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, created deep-seated resentment, and divided the international community, so as to effectively end weapons monitoring, and

WHEREAS Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear disarmament is all but complete (according to former U.N. weapons inspectors Chief Richard Butler- 4/12/99, Scott Ritter and Raymond Zalinskas) but weapons inspections are unlikely to resume while economic sanctions are in place; and

WHEREAS the billions of dollars spent on our present policy toward Iraq had impacted federal, state and local spending on essential and job-producing program in health, education and welfare; and

WHEREAS our own U.S. Congressional Representatives Anna Eshoo and Tom Campbell, the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churches and several other religious organizations, Denis Halliday (former U.N. Coordinator of the "Oil-for-food" Program in Iraq) and concerned residents of Santa Clara County (some of whom have relatives suffering in iraq) all urge lifting these economic sanctions:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors urges the lifting of economic sanctions on Iraq, the rebuilding of the Iraqi infrastructure 9water purification, sewage treatment, etc) and the free flow of humanitarian aid into aid into Iraq without threat of prosecution.

posted August 3, 2002, WWFOR webmaster Jean Buskin bb369@scn.org

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