31.   Saddam has not shied away from highlighting the pain the sanctions have caused ordinary people.

32.   Saddam has not shied from highlighting the pain the sanctions have caused ordinary people.

33.   The government, however, maintains that blanket trade sanctions could cause more economic damage in Australia than France.

34.   The sanctions have caused severe food shortages.

35.   The sanctions caused prices to rise beyond the reach of most Iraqis and plunged the value of the national currency, the dinar.

36.   The sanctions have caused prices of everything other than oil to soar.

37.   The sanctions have caused economic hardship in Iraq, and U.N. officials say there is widespread malnutrition.

38.   The United States considers the photographs to be compelling evidence against the Iraqi charge that the U.N. sanctions are causing suffering among ordinary Iraqis.

39.   U.N. officials say the sanctions have caused widespread impoverishment and malnutrition among hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, including children.

40.   U.N. reports have concluded that the sanctions have caused widespread malnutrition.