James Rubin Cynical Quotations

The fact that Iraq is exporting nursing supplies (in exchange) for hard currency, in violation of sanctions, while babies and children are suffering from malnutrition is yet another indication of the Iraqi regime's cynical disregard for the welfare of its own citizens, ... and further proof that the responsibility of the suffering of the Iraqi children lies with Saddam Hussein -- and not sanctions.

Saddam is again pushing the canard that sanctions -- rather than the misrule and the cynical manipulation of his own people that Saddam Hussein propagates -- are responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people.