Matt Welch debunks that sanctions killed "millions" of children in Iraq. Meanwhile, how many is Saddam killing with his self-imposed oil embargo?

Reason: The Politics of Dead Children

While firefighters were still pulling out warm body parts from Ground Zero, foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky and his followers on college campuses and alternative-weekly staffs nationwide were insisting that it was vital to understand the "context" of the September 11 massacre: that U.S.-led sanctions were killing "5,000 children a month" in Iraq. Meanwhile, on the Iraqi government’s own Web site, the number of under-5 deaths from all causes for the month of September was listed as 2,932.