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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (22090)	3/17/2003 8:34:12 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Sanctions didn't kill anybody, Saddam and his henchmen did the killing You can argue the sanctions were in place because of Saddam and hence he is indirectly responsible for the deaths that took place due to sanctions. However, you cannot seriously claim that sanctions caused no deaths. Among the import items that were not allowed into Iraq in the past decade are various medicines, absence of which have claimed deaths especially among children, and everyday chemicals we take for granted like chlorine for water purification. The two most reliable scientific studies on sanctions in Iraq are the 1999 report "Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children," by Columbia University's Richard Garfield, and "Sanctions and Childhood Mortality in Iraq," a May 2000 article by Mohamed Ali and Iqbal Shah in The Lancet. Garfield, an expert on the public-health impact of sanctions, conducted a comparative analysis of the more than two dozen major studies that have analyzed malnutrition and mortality figures in Iraq during the past decade. He estimated the most likely number of excess deaths among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998 to be 227,000. Garfield's analysis showed child mortality rates double those of the previous decade. Ali, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shah, an analyst for the World Health Organization in Geneva, conducted a demographic survey for UNICEF in cooperation with the government of Iraq. In early 1999 their study surveyed 40,000 households in south-central Iraq and in the northern Kurdish zone. In south-central Iraq, child mortality rates rose from 56 per 1,000 births for the period 1984-89 to 131 per 1,000 for the period 1994-99. In the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, Ali and Shah found that child mortality rates actually fell during the same period, from 80 per 1,000 births to 72 per 1,000. alternet.org BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official said Friday about half a million children under the age of 5 have died in Iraq since the imposition of U.N. sanctions 10 years ago. Anupama Rao Singh, country director for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), made the estimate in an interview with Reuters. ``In absolute terms we estimate that perhaps about half a million children under 5 years of age have died, who ordinarily would not have died had the decline in mortality that was prevalent over the 70s and the 80s continued through the 90s,'' she said. A UNICEF survey published in August showed the mortality rate among Iraqi children under 5 had more than doubled in the government-controlled south and center of Iraq during the sanctions. Baghdad said the UNICEF survey proved that the sanctions were killing thousands of children every month and called for an immediate end to the embargo. droitvp.org

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (22090)	3/17/2003 8:59:26 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 25898

<< Sanctions didn't kill anybody, Saddam and his henchmen did the killing. >> The antiwar, appeasement groups doesn't want to hold Saddam responsible. Saddam would probably spend more on weapons systems, and even less on his people, if the sanctions were lifted. But, the antiwar group will admonish you for blaming Saddam. How dare you accuse dear father Saddam for any harm that comes to his people, even when that harm is because of his actions! Even now, Saddam could divert a few billions from his chemical and biological weapons systems, and from building new billion dollar palaces, in order to provide better for his people.