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To: sandintoes who wrote (11258)	8/6/2002 6:37:22 PM
From: Michael Grosz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

That is a great question, for which, along with "Where did you get 10,000 collateral dead from bombing the aspirin factory in Sudan?" there will never be legitimate answers. This is the oldest, most annoying, and most effective tactic of the left's propagandists. Simply keep repeating a statement enough times and surely someone will start to believe it. How many times did Clinton/Gore state that the 1991 recession was the worst economy since the Great Depression? How many times do we hear democrats calling any republican tax plan a "risky scheme"? Thomas M. will not answer for his "facts" because they are not facts. Rather they are statements that his ideology predisposes him to believe without need for fact-checking.

To: sandintoes who wrote (11258)	8/6/2002 10:32:26 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Actually, we did start this. We attacked Iraq, completely unprovoked. It is actually not particularly important to this debate if that is true, because the official American position is that it is acceptable. When asked on US television whether the death of 500,000 Iraqi children as a result of sanctions was justified Madelaine Albright replied "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it." Regarding the number of Iraqi babies that have died because of our sanctions and because of the nuclear weapons we used during the Gulf War, we don't have an exact figure. There is a very good reason for that. It is because you and the American leadership do not care. UNICEF did a study in 1999, and came up with an estimate of a million deaths, half of them being children. pilger.carlton.com Tom