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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 223.31-3.2%3:59 PM EST

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To: zonder who wrote (70691)10/10/2003 3:49:44 PM
From: runes  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
<<I wrote a longish reply which I accidentally erased. Argh :-)>>
Just as well - this is a conversation that should be wrapped up rather than expounded.

<<...there ARE credible sources ...and others (bloggers, etc)>>
...Bloggers as credible sources??!!?

<<Re "infant mortality in Iraq" - Sorry but no. Take a look at this:>>
No? First you cite 700k deaths which I pointed out was a questionable number and then you come back with a report that drops the deaths to 500k. And if you read the report, it does not blame the increased in mortality just on the sanctions. So the sanctions contribution is going to be less than 500k.

All of which makes my point. I can sit here all day long and pick away at each and every detail and assumption that goes into the 700k number or into the 500k number.
...But in the end those details are only trees in a forest. And in this case the forest is made up of hundreds of thousands of children who died because of the impact of the sanctions. And that is what is important.
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