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To: FaultLine who wrote (81566)	3/12/2003 3:07:06 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Ken, My derision of liberals for indirectly supporting a dictator and not debating a moral case for war draws a 'warning' from you, but Spiral3 calls Frank a child killer (because he supports intervention) and you say nothing. That was my point. As it stands we are killing 692 per week while we wait on liberation. WASHINGTON POST: Writing in "The Washington Post," Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations says those who believe containing Iraq and its weapons programs is a reasonable alternative to war are wrong. Sanctions are the "cornerstone of containment." And "in Iraq, sanctions kill." Containment "is not an alternative to war," he writes: "Containment is war: a slow, grinding war in which the only certainty is that hundreds of thousands of civilians will die." Mead notes that the 1991 Gulf War killed "between 21,000 and 35,000 Iraqis, of whom between 1,000 and 5,000 were civilians." But based on Iraq's own government figures, UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) estimates the international community's containment policy kills approximately 60,000 Iraqi children under 5 years of age every year. While these estimates vary, Mead says "by any reasonable estimate, containment kills about as many people every year as the Gulf War -- and almost all the victims of containment are civilian." He notes that Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is 65; "containing him for another 10 years condemns at least another 360,000 Iraqis to death." Iraqi publicity blames U.S. policy for this state of affairs -- but Mead says that is the wrong conclusion. Each year, the UN and the United States allow Iraq to sell enough oil "to meet the basic needs of Iraqi civilians. Hussein diverts these resources," and that is what kills. But Mead says the international community's containment policy "enables the slaughter." John