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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: maceng2 who wrote (898)8/12/2006 8:35:01 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 1695
 
Yes, I remember that claims were made that 500,000 Iraqi children were killed by the UN sanctions which the US and Britain enforced.

Do you think that maybe Saddam should be blamed for those deaths instead of Clinton, Bush, and Blair? I do. After all, he did have it in his power to cooperate with the UN resolutions placed on Iraq. And that would have ended the sanctions (preventing those 500,000 dead children) and prevented the violent unrest ongoing now following Saddam's overthrow. Furthermore the UN sanctions were placed on Iraq for good reasons involving Saddam's propensity to invade neighboring countries and seize or maliciously destroy their oil fields and to oppress his own nations citizens.

As to why so many people in the ME are unhappy with us (meaning the US and Britain) - I don't believe for a minute that it is because we have treated ME'ers monstrously. Most of the problems in the ME stem from the sick religious mindset held by many people there.

As far as Iraq is concerned, the worst thing we ever did to that nation was allow Saddam to retain power in 1991, when it would have been an opportune time to overthrown him. I blame an excessive concern for world opinion, which is almost always wrong, as well as an excessive reliance on morally cynical realpolitik ideas.
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