Where the hell have you been?
re:"Where did you hear all these kids starved to death? The only time I ever heard it was when Bushies were trying to make the case against Saddam and as usual went too far. I have never seen an iota of evidence. If you are sure this happened, present proof."
jamesglaser.org
"On the news program 60 Minutes, May 12th 1996 Lesley Stahl was asking Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright about the US sanctions against Iraq and the effect of those sanctions. Stahl, "We have heard that a half million children have died, I mean, that's more children than died at Hiroshima, and you know, is the price worth it?" Madeliene Albright, "The price--- we think the price is worth it."
Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stalh. Very few if any major US news programs or news papers carried this story, but every Arab news source in the middle east did. Osama bin Laden uses this piece for recruitment work...."
unicef.org
"Ms. Bellamy noted that if the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998. As a partial explanation, she pointed to a March statement of the Security Council Panel on Humanitarian Issues which states: "Even if not all suffering in Iraq can be imputed to external factors, especially sanctions, the Iraqi people would not be undergoing such deprivations in the absence of the prolonged measures imposed by the Security Council and the effects of war." |
