Burgess Owens: “Somebody is buying it. It is not just small countries, it is large countries. We have not confronted them. The rule of…”

“Somebody is buying it. It is not just small countries, it is large countries. We have not confronted them. The rule of law, which we think is so important, the rule of international law is just as important as any other rule of law, but they are just thumbing their noses at the rule of law as far as the United Nations is concerned. We have not confronted these nations and demanded that they stop doing what they are doing. There is a lot of talk about children dying in Iraq because of the U.S.-imposed or UN-imposed sanctions. That is a lot of nonsense. Saddam Hussein is selling oil. He has billions of dollars to spend as he wishes to spend. He is spending it on trying to acquire weapons materials. He could buy medicine, he could buy food. If children are dying in Iraq, people are dying for lack of medicine, it is Saddam Hussein's fault, nobody else's, because he certainly has the money and resources, because the rest of the world has not bothered to enforce the law or to try to enforce the law as they should, the sanctions and the conditions that Iraq agreed to that were imposed on Iraq. Why is Iraq special and not different from any other nation with an evil regime, with a dictator? Because they agreed in order to save themselves to certain items and signed an agreement with the United Nations, and they have proceeded not to abide by that agreement. That makes them different and a special case. But the case has not been made for a military attack on Iraq.”