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Even sheets and diapers are lacking, so the famished babies lie naked on plastic mattresses. Each day the hospital admits another 10 cases of marasmus -- an advanced state of malnutrition that causes the child's face and body to become as shriveled and haggard as those of a wizened old man. Other children have grotesquely swollen bellies -- a symptom of the starvation syndrome known as kwashiorkor. Before the war, says the hospital's director, there was barely one such case a year...
...Adds Haggard, "The reason why I'm not as dovish is because subsequent actions taken by Saddam Hussein meant sanctions might not have worked...
...somewhat surprised at the ease of how things went," says Stephen M. Haggard, associate professor of government. "I believe we could have avoided the ground and air war. We should have attempted the sanctions for longer than we were willing. We were trapped by our deadlines...
...Says Haggard, "They are allowing him no opportunity for claiming victory. There is no interest on the part of the Administration. Whether it is a smart move remains to be seen. They have as two possible models Versailles and Japan...
...Bush attached himself to this policy by making two mistakes," says Stephen M. Haggard, associate professor of government. "First was the putting together of the coalition in the United Nations for the passage of the January 15 deadline. Second was the November deployment of troops which shifted [the conflict] from a defensive to offensive status. The decisions were against the sanction strategy...