KLP, Where do you get this idea? What I wrote wasn't that difficult to read.
<you seem to convey that it is an American's "fault"....? Perhaps I misunderstood you. Surely, you don't mean that. Do you?
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Just exactly what do you think I think "is an American's fault"?
Okay, since you asked
<And where do you place blame for the over 200 mutilated dead found in Iraq, with journals and pictures to show who they were, and probably what happened to them....In a warehouse yet.
Or hanging of an Iraqi woman because she waved at someone in the coalition?
Or killing the babies because their parents were anti-Saddam...
Or with gassing and killing a million (with estimates of at least another million more) people.
ETC ETC ETC.
Why does it seem that --no matter what-- you seem to convey that it is an American's "fault"....? Perhaps I misunderstood you. Surely, you don't mean that. Do you?>
The million gassed was in the Nazi era. There haven't been a million gassed anywhere else [defoliants in Vietnam don't count]. Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Tokyo combined caused about a million dead or maimed [that's how to handle large numbers of civilians - gassing is too difficult]. If Saddam killed a million, that's what happens when people suppress opposition by killing people. The USA in Vietnam participated in population depletion by a similar number. They were NOT all soldiers!!
Back in Iraq, I'd lay the blame for children killed on those who pulled the trigger, or did whatever directly caused their deaths, plus those who did the ordering or allowed the power to those who did it. I don't blame the sanctions for Iraqi children's deaths - there was always heaps of food and sufficient medical treatment could have been had but Saddam's priorities were NOT to divert cash flow to health issues [other than his and supporters - same as here in NZ actually, come to think of it, though it's less extreme here].
Of course I have no idea whether it's true that some woman was hung for waving to a some Americans, nor who did it, nor who gave the person to think they could do it. Propaganda is rampant! There will be some sorting out to find out who did what to whom and why. The military tribunals might be busy for a while. There are undoubtedly plenty of candidates for trial if a fraction of what we are told can be believed.
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