Ted Re...Saddam's death totals grow with each week the US is stalled in the UN. Do you have creditable links [and not Iraqwatch] that support your supposition that Saddam has killed millions?
Sure From Ramseys speech to the US congress. http://www.iacenter.org/rc_o26.htmlThen we impose the unbelievable sanctions on Iraq that have killed a million and a half people. Every day it continues, every day and every day infants, children, elderly die from those sanctions. We just got back from Iraq in September, where we heard the health minister say the death rates continue to increase. The number of children born below normal weight, below 2 kilograms, are now one in four. A midget generation. We have killed 1 and a half million people with genocidal sanctions.
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http://www.merip.org/mero/mero030403.html
Blair's recent statement to the House of Commons mentions child mortality, access to potable water, dependence on food rations and political repression as examples of the hardships experienced by Iraqis. The latter is squarely the responsibility of the Iraqi regime, and its significance for Iraqis' quality of life should not be underestimated. On the other three issues, however, Blair's analysis is incomplete: it is not only the level of deprivation in Iraq which is striking, but the change that has taken place over the past 12 years. Child (under-five) mortality has surged under sanctions. UNICEF documented a rise from 56 deaths per 1,000 live births in the period 1984-1989 to 131 deaths per 1,000 live births in the period 1994-1999, corresponding to 500,000 "excess deaths." The UN Security Council's own 1999 assessment of the humanitarian situation in Iraq stressed that "before 1991...90 percent of the population had access to an abundant quantity of safe drinking water." Before 1991 average caloric intake was above 3,100 kilocalories per day, and Iraqis enjoyed the highest rate of food availability per capita in the region, without government food rations. All other humanitarian indicators give a similar message: while the mismanagement of the Iraqi economy is a long-term problem, the past 12 years have been exceptional.
You will note that Joe said that millions have died. Saddam caused the sanctions, and all you liberals want them continued to control Saddam, so why shouldn't you liberals accept some of the responsibility for over a million deaths. This insanity must end sometime. |
