In fact he is asking for two kinds of help: aid to stop ongoing injury and aid to recover from the damage.
It is sensible to stop legal aid in some cases, he says.
Senator Inouye has a quarantine bill to stop trade, aid and the arms buildup.
Its withdrawal will stop aid to 630,000 people in the region.
American demands have to be backed up by action, even to the point of stopping aid to Pakistan.
China declares that it will stop economic aid to Indonesia.
Otherwise the Sandinistas may promise everything, wait for Congress to stop aid to the rebels - and then deliver nothing.
I would like to repeat that we have not stopped aid to the Palestinian people, as some have said.
My group is also rather pleased to see from the common position that the idea of stopping further aid altogether after 1997 is under consideration.
It is only really Saddam who is stopping humanitarian aid reaching his people.