<< I was arguing that the primary responsibility for the deprivation of the Iraqi people lie with the Iraqi leadership. They are the ones who refuse to cooperate with the terms of the surrender and who when circumventing the embargo funnel the supplies for their own private use. >>
OK, You don't want to argue whether to continue of discontinue the death machinery killing millions of innocent villagers. You don't have a choice since your government is funding it and you are supporting your governments choice to continue, whether you want to accept responsibility for that is up to you. You don't, but no argument for or against is support for this policy.
The responsibility of the deaths of these millions of villagers lies with the Iraqi Leadership? What leadership? The regime of Saddam Hussein is a Tyrannical Dictatorship. Anyone who doesn't voice their willingness to abide by his rule is killed unless they flee the country. I met a group of people on the state capital steps who fled his tyranny. They were protesting the death by extermination of their loved ones in Iraq. No one on this planet hates Saddam more than these people. But it is the US policy that is killing their innocent loved ones.
<<Using your argument, the U.S. should be blamed as the killers of the
Bosnians, Congo, Rwanda, and so on.>>
How so? Are we blocking food and medical supplies from getting to the innocent villagers of these regions. If so, Yes we are the cause of the deaths of people starving, and dying of treatable disease.
<<You need to go back and revisit the Mid East. They were the ones who
didn't want the U.S. to go in and invade Iraq. The U.S. was in a
catch-22.>>
They who? There was support from several countries in the Middle East. It is against the Muslim Religion to target innocent creatures as a military strategy. Now you are beginning to see all Muslim from all nations oppose this. Even Kuwaities and Saudies (when they are in the US and behind closed doors, not in their own countries) are against this.
Think about the cost for our own children and grandchildren. This mass slaughter of innocents is has not been stopped because there is no machinery that can oppose the US/UN efforts. Its so nicely camouflaged by blaming Saddam Hussein that no one even feels the need to talk about it. Its too politically and socially uncomfortable. It's culturally normal to accept it. But then so was slavery in the US at one time, so was killing Jews in Germany at one time, so was apartheid in South Africa at one time.
Do you honestly think fifty years from now the deaths of these innocent villagers will be blamed on Saddam. No one will even remember his name. He isn't rounding them up and slaughtering them. He has no policy that forbids them to eat or seek medical care. The US has a policy that directly leads to the death of millions of innocent villagers.
How many more innocent children: 1more, 10,000, 50,000, 1million, no limit? It is our choice to oppose or support this ineffective, misdirected, and murderous policy. |
