The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. ... America's motive in the sanctions become diminished when Saddam Hussein's popularity goes up in Iraq every time the U.S. bombs his country. ...

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Bin Laden, a Saudi, speaks out frequently against Israel, but for him the real problem is the U.S. troop presence in his country dating to the military buildup before the 1991 Gulf War precipitated by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (Time magazine, October 2001 Beyer, Lisa pg 45). ...

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