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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: one_less who wrote (6701)12/12/2005 4:44:42 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 542586
 
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?)

Huh?

I don't deny that sanctions resulted in hardship and death. The claim that it is anywhere near 30K/month is foolish. Furthermore, given the dismal reports about fuel and clean water in Iraq since the invasion, it would appear that such a death rate must remain on the same order of magnitude as that under sanctions, besides the violence.

One reads all sorts of wacky numbers, and they are believed by those of political stripes that like them. For example, the left quotes the British medical journal claim of 100K excess deaths. The right derides this. In the last couple of weeks I read a claim in US News (quite righty) quoting a gleefull use Congressman returning from Iraq who claimed that the US military should start thumping the body count of insurgents, to show the folks back home that our 2K dead were answered by 60K insurgents dead. I suspect thats a wacky number as well.

FWIW, I suspect that the Iraq war started by Bush as resulted in quite a few more than 30K deaths, especially if you include excess deaths due to hardship as the sanctions bashers do.
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