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To: gmccon who wrote (42000)4/10/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Crimson Ghost   of 95453
 
OT: The idea that the US is the global human rights champion is one of the history's biggest big lies. US has sometimes been on the side of human rights and sometimes not. US foreign policy is motivated by the idea of world domination not human rights.

Let us not forget when our government expresses great concern for human rights in Kosovo (2000 dead), that this same government is responsible for the death of perhaps 1.5 million civilians in Iraq.

Although some may dispute the 1.5 million figure becasue of its source, UN agencies have estimated the number of deaths at over a million.

Baghdad said that more than 1.5 million Iraqi citizens have died due to the
sanctions imposed on Iraq since 1990.

Iraqi Minister of Health Omid Medhat Mubarak said in statements yesterday that
the average number of children under the age of 5 dying each month in Iraq
reached 6,000 in comparison to 546 before the sanctions, while the monthly
average for children who are above 5 years old is 8,600 after being 1,600
before the siege.

He accused the sanctions committee of obstructing many Iraqi contracts for
importing medicines and medical equipment regarding chronic and heart
diseases and some medical machines, among which are machines for laser
treatment that were halted under the pretext that these machines have military
uses.

The Iraqi minister's declarations came hours before the Security Council's
meeting yesterday to discuss its position toward disarming Iraqi weapons and
sanctions.
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