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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (410800)6/1/2003 2:34:25 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
TP,

In a minor discrepancy in our worldviews and interpretation of the lexicon, I nonconcur with this:

Clinton made no active hostile modifications to the sanctions that Bush Sr. put in place although he made no great effort to lift them. None of this could be termed genocide by anyone who knows the english meaning of the word.

Wrong. Every bit of it can be termed genocide. Here's the common definition of genocide:

noun: systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Source: onelook.com

Here's from an encyclopedia article:

Genocide is a type of atrocity in general use referring to the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, cultural or political group. The term was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 from the roots genos (Greek for tribe or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).

By either definition, what Bill Clinton was engaged in was genocide. Madeleine Albright admitted as much in an infamous interview with Leslie Stahl on CBS's 60 Minutes in 1997, when she famously said that the death of 100,000 Iraqi children per year was an "acceptable cost" of our sanctions policy. This is genocide. Pure and simple.

You may be confusing genocide with "pogrom" or what has been called the "holocaust" after the fact where huge percentages of an ethnically cleansed population are murdered.

I set the standards for genocide a bit lower, the success rate at murdering the target ethnic group isn't the issue. It's the intent that makes it genocide.

Which continues to this day when we examine current U.S. policy toward the indigenous population of Iraq. We are still deliberately, systematically preventing the Iraqis from repairing their water and sanitation systems. This is completely consistent with the genocidal planning documents created by the Department of Death in 1991:

gulflink.osd.mil
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