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The United Nations sanction program against Iraq was designed to impact the economy, thereby limiting the actions of the countries leader and creating an atmosphere to direct change (Gordon 18). While there is considerable research that suggests that the economic impacts of these sanctions have hurt the general population more than the leadership, there are a number of solid arguments in support for continued U.N.-directed sanctions and military support for these sanctions by the United States. The arguments against sanctions in Iraq are not based in the military issues or the problems of peacekeeping, but instead in claims that the continued actions in Iraq violate humanitarian principles (Gordon 18). In the Spring of 1999, the continued U.S. bombings in Iraq drew attention away from existing debates about the nature of U.N directed sanctions and their impact on the Iraqi populous as a whole (Gordon 18). The imposing of economic sanctions against Iraq under the directives of Articles 41 and 42 of the U. N. Charter was based in the commitment to peacekeeping efforts and were based in the belief that by crippling the economy of Iraq, it would be possible to bring Saddam Hussein into complicity with U. N. directiv