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

To: jttmab who wrote (23802)	3/23/2003 4:35:35 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Infant Mortality Rates: Iraq: 57.61 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) USA: 6.69 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) U.K.: 5.45 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) Source: cia.gov cia.gov cia.gov ********* When confronted by Leslie Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes about the fact that 500,000 infants and toddlers were murdered by the U.S. sanctions scheme between 1991 and 1996, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called this an "acceptable cost" of our policies. Others call it what it really is. Crimes against humanity. No wonder the master butcher of Baghdad, King George has declared the International Criminal Court to be "troublesome", and inappropriate as a legally binding organization to look into his criminal conspiracy.

To: jttmab who wrote (23802)	3/23/2003 12:00:25 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The mortality rate in the US is ~30% higher than it is in Iraq...if the US had the same mortality rate in 2002 that Iraq had, there would have been 750,000 fewer deaths in the US. OK- but you know the primary issue with the US and violence, and it is the "melting pot" nature of our society and in that context, the USA fares pretty well. Look at what iraq does between sunnis and chi-ites (sp?). We have peoples in the USA who are working along side one another who in another nation would be killing one another as soon as they got within striking distance. It seems like there are all these claims about violence in the US where we are held up against these homogeneous societies like Japan as if that is a fair comparison.