Dodge drew attention to the conclusion of his paper that "the inability of sanctions to discipline Iraq, the personification of a post-cold war rogue state, led the US administration of George W Bush to revert to warfare as its chosen tool for forwarding foreign policy aims in the new millennium" The assembled experts, academics and journalists more distinguished than myself disagreed over causality, the effectiveness of sanctions, their morality and most of all what they were trying to achieve. Full Article at Comment Is Free