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

To: jlallen who wrote (22162)	3/17/2003 10:25:14 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

So you are basically agreeing with me that it is sanctions that killed so many Iraqis rather than Saddam's use of oil revenues. Here, I had written as much in this post: Message 18709612 Yep. The reason those medicines, chlorine, etc. are not available is due to Saddm's brutal, murderous regime. Not due to his "misuse" of oil revenues, though, as you initially claimed. 65,000 Iraqis die each year as a result of the misuse of the UN sanctioned oil revneus by Saddam. That is a fact. Message 18708292 Even if he were to use 100% of those revenues to build hospitals, schools, etc for his people, sanctions would prevent importing sanitizing chemicals and medicines. Hence, people would still die because of sanctions. Thanks for making my point clear. No problem. Try to be clearer next time.

To: jlallen who wrote (22162)	3/17/2003 11:54:08 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

<< Yep. The reason those medicines, chlorine, etc. are not available is due to Saddm's brutal, murderous regime. >> Why are there sanctions? Because Saddam has refused to give up his weapons of mass destruction programs. But, the idiot protesters say, even though Saddam has refused to stop developing weapons of mass destruction, for the past 12 years, he doesn't have any. Are the protestors born stupid, or do they have to work hard to get there? <g> They are small minds, who refuse to hold Saddam responsible, and accountable for the Iraqi people's misery. They don't want to confront, or get rid of the world's tyrants. They are the ones who empower madmen like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Saddam, to name a few.