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To: tejek who wrote (480817)	5/14/2009 3:56:48 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575047

”A weak premise....the sanctions were working.” Keep in mind that the policy of the sanctions were designed to bring about the removal of the regime, but resulted in the entrenchment of an even more severe authoritarian state. ”....the sanctions were working.” The enemy for which the sanctions were enacted was Saddam’s regime but the target of damage was the innocent villagers outside the regime. Added to the usual brutal nature of Saddam’s regime came the brutality of sanctions where food was cut off, water was unsanitary, prospects for an autonomous or even productive existence were unheard of, education in a once affluent country was unavailable. ”....the sanctions were working.” Critics of US policy in Iraq claim that sanctions have killed more than a million people, many of them children. Saddam Hussein puts the death toll at one and a half million. I’m convinced the actual numbers are lower than that, although still horrifying. ”....the sanctions were working.” Researchers with a Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) study in Iraq wrote to The Lancet, the journal of the British Medical Society, asserting that sanctions were responsible for the deaths of 567,000 Iraqi children. This figure was later reduced but CBS followed up with a segment on 60 Minutes that repeated the numbers and depicted sanctions as a murderous assault on children. This was the program in which UN ambassador (and later Secretary of State) Madeleine Albright, when asked about these numbers, coldly stated, "The price is worth it." ”....the sanctions were working.” UNICEF and other United Nations bodies and officials have reported, the sanctions (which the U.S. and U.K., primarily, refused to have lifted), added to the death toll since 1991 and was estimated to be close to 1 million deaths up to 1998 with mass starvations and disease (while Saddam Hussein had remained unaffected, and he himself sometimes used that for political advantage). Up to half of these are said to have been be children, ”....the sanctions were working.” UNICEF identified the dozens of serious negative impacts to the general health, economics, Social injustice, human rights, balances of power, and international relations. ”....the sanctions were working.” The Oil for Food program was exposed to be rife with corruption resulted in more suffering for Iraqis and illicit funds going to Saddam totaling over 21 billion dollars. Some claimed he was funneling it to terrorists, as he had previously threatened to do.

To: tejek who wrote (480817)	5/15/2009 10:57:56 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575047

”A weak premise....the sanctions were working.” Keep in mind that the policy of the sanctions were designed to bring about the removal of the regime, but resulted in the entrenchment of an even more severe authoritarian state. ”....the sanctions were working.” The enemy for which the sanctions were enacted was Saddam’s regime but the target of damage was the innocent villagers outside the regime. Added to the usual brutal nature of Saddam’s regime came the brutality of sanctions where food was cut off, water was unsanitary, prospects for an autonomous or even productive existence were unheard of, education in a once affluent country was unavailable. ”....the sanctions were working.” Critics of US policy in Iraq claim that sanctions have killed more than a million people, many of them children. Saddam Hussein puts the death toll at one and a half million. I’m convinced the actual numbers are lower than that, although still horrifying. ”....the sanctions were working.” Researchers with a Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) study in Iraq wrote to The Lancet, the journal of the British Medical Society, asserting that sanctions were responsible for the deaths of 567,000 Iraqi children. This figure was later reduced but CBS followed up with a segment on 60 Minutes that repeated the numbers and depicted sanctions as a murderous assault on children. This was the program in which UN ambassador (and later Secretary of State) Madeleine Albright, when asked about these numbers, coldly stated, "The price is worth it." ”....the sanctions were working.” UNICEF and other United Nations bodies and officials have reported, the sanctions (which the U.S. and U.K., primarily, refused to have lifted), added to the death toll since 1991 and was estimated to be close to 1 million deaths up to 1998 with mass starvations and disease (while Saddam Hussein had remained unaffected, and he himself sometimes used that for political advantage). Up to half of these are said to have been be children, ”....the sanctions were working.” UNICEF identified the dozens of serious negative impacts to the general health, economics, Social injustice, human rights, balances of power, and international relations. ”....the sanctions were working.” The Oil for Food program was exposed to be rife with corruption resulted in more suffering for Iraqis and illicit funds going to Saddam totaling over 21 billion dollars. Some claimed he was funneling it to terrorists, as he had previously threatened to do.