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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (904)	12/26/2000 10:45:06 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 93284

Typical knee-jerk republican response. So these guys support democracy, but the also support Dictator Saddaam???? To call for an end to the needless death and suffering caused by the sanctions is hardly supporting the Dictator. According to Alain Gresh, in the Le Monde Diplomatique of October 2000, the UN Sanctions Committee, controlled by the USA and the UK, enforces a series of punitive measures that are the worst the world has known since the Treaty of Versailles. These sanctions have caused harrowing results that are not relieved by the so-called 'oil for food program' controlled by the UN Compensation Commission. During the bombing by the allied forces in the Gulf War, an estimated 800 tons of depleted uranium contained in ammunitions were used, causing cancer rates to increase five fold and childhood leukaemia in Iraq to be the highest rate in the world. The means to provide relief or cure are withheld through the sanction regime. Prior to the sanctions, Iraq had one of the most satisfactory levels of quality of life for the region. One and a half million Iraqi civilians have died since 1991 as a direct result of the sanctions, and according to UNICEF reports substantiated by the Red Cross, 600,000 of the dead are children under 5 years of age. Maternal mortality rates have more than doubled during the period of the sanctions and 70% of Iraqi women suffer from anaemia. The number of malnourished children has increased over 300% since 1991.Unemployment and inflation have soared. iacenter.org ... Mezz - Maybe if it were 600,000 little Elians, more people would care.