"In this moving new collection, leading voices against the sanctions document
the human, environmental, and social toll of the United States-led war against
Iraq, ending with concrete ideas on how people can help end the sanctions.
The last nine years of bombing and sanctions imposed on Iraq have claimed
hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them children under five. Because the
sanctions have prevented Iraq from importing basic necessities, easily
preventable diseases have taken a devastating toll on the Iraqi people, while
Saddam Hussein and his powerful friends remain unaffected." --back cover