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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (191090)6/20/2004 4:31:20 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 1574135
 
The U.S. deliberately destroyed the Iraqi water and sewage systems in the 1990 Gulf War. It was a very bizarre action, since the aim of our war was supposedly to remove Saddam from Kuwait. Keeping that in mind, read this about the post-war sanctions regime:

<<< ... the United States blocked contracts for water tankers, on the grounds that they might be used to haul chemical weapons instead. Yet the arms experts at UNMOVIC had no objection to them: water tankers with that particular type of lining, they maintained, were not on the "1051 list" -- the list of goods that require notice to U.N. weapons inspectors. Still, the United States insisted on blocking the water tankers -- this during a time when the major cause of child deaths was lack of access to clean drinking water, and when the country was in the midst of a drought. Thus, even though the United States justified blocking humanitarian goods out of concern over security and potential military use, it blocked contracts that the U.N.'s own agency charged with weapons inspections did not object to ... >>>

Cool War: Economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction

By Joy Gordon

scn.org

Until now, I haven't been part of the "sanctions were genocide" crowd, but I can't see any other interpretation of this.

Tom
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