Reply #24: The sanctions against Iraq were initiated by the UN in 1990....

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...On August 6, 1990 the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 661 which imposed stringent economic sanctions on Iraq, providing for a full trade embargo, excluding medical supplies, food and other items of humanitarian necessity, these to be determined by the Security Council sanctions committee. After the end of the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi sanctions were linked to removal of Weapons of mass destruction by Resolution 687. The sanctions remained in place until just after the most recent invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Even though the UN intiated the sanctions against Iraq, they were under a great deal of pressure from the Bush I administration to make them happen.

Albright wasn't appointed Secretary of State until after Clinton's first inauguration in January 1993.