Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it.
— 60 Minutes, tv interview (5 Dec ’96)
*** It’s worth noting that on 60 Minutes, Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stahl – a rough rendering of the preliminary estimate in a 1995 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that 567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions.