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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (6699)12/12/2005 4:30:59 PM
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"30K/month? Link?"

I can't find such a link and my figure may have been off.

However, the cost to innocent lives was far greater than your figure and is widely documented. The numbers don't bolster your arguement though so I can see why you leave them out (values?)

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This link is to a study of children under five years old. It attributes an average of 60 excess deaths per day of children under five years old to the sanctions.

casi.org.uk

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On May 10, 1996, appearing on 60 Minutes, Madeleine Albright (then Clinton's Ambassador to the United Nations) was presented with a figure of half a million children under five having died from the sanctions: Albright, not challenging this figure, infamously replied: "We think the price is worth it."

Denis Halliday was appointed United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, Iraq as of 1 September 1997, at the Assistant Secretary-General level. In October 1998 he resigned after a 34 year career with the UN in order to have the freedom to criticise the sanctions regime, saying "I don't want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide". Halliday's successor, Hans von Sponeck, subsequently also resigned in protest.

en.wikipedia.org
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