This is interesting. Since the Gulf War in 1991, it has been widely reported that the ensuing sanctions caused the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. A new study casts serious doubt on that story, and concludes that Saddam Hussein falsified data provided to the U.N. which caused them to reach the errant conclusion.
http://gh.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000311
This doesn’t change my mind at all that the 2003 invasion was totally senseless – in fact it probably bolsters my opinion a little bit – but it does make me question how the U.N. got fooled so badly.