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To: Don Hurst who wrote (536387)	12/14/2009 1:29:42 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578927

>> What else have you learned from "listening to other people"? Truthfully, most of my information on this subject comes from someone who spent the better part of a year there interacting with the Iraqi people and finding/removing IEDs.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (536387)	12/14/2009 1:45:08 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578927

Why containing Iraq is the wrong answer March 14 2003 Sanctions will not remove Saddam. Instead they kill hundreds of thousands. Those who still oppose war in Iraq think containment is an alternative - a middle way between all-out war and letting Saddam Hussein out of his box. They are wrong. Sanctions are inevitably the cornerstone of containment, and in Iraq, sanctions kill. In this case, containment is not an alternative to war. Containment is war: a slow, grinding war in which the only certainty is that hundreds of thousands of civilians will die. The Gulf War killed somewhere between 21,000 and 35,000 Iraqis, of whom between 1000 and 5000 were civilians. Based on Iraqi Government figures, UNICEF estimates that containment kills roughly 5000 Iraqi children under five every month, or 60,000 every year. Other estimates are lower, but 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, and two-thirds are children under five. advertisement advertisement Each year of containment is a new Gulf war. Saddam is 65; containing him for another 10 years condemns at least another 360,000 Iraqis to death. Of these, 240,000 will be children under five. Those are the low-end estimates. Believe UNICEF and 10 more years kills 600,000 Iraqi babies and all together almost 1 million Iraqis. Ever since United Nations-mandated sanctions took effect, Iraqi propaganda has blamed the United States for deliberately murdering Iraqi babies to further US foreign policy goals. Wrong. The sanctions exist only because Saddam has refused for 12 years to honour the terms of a ceasefire he himself signed. In any case, the UN and the US allow Iraq to sell enough oil each month to meet the basic needs of Iraqi civilians. Saddam diverts these resources. Saddam murders the babies. But containment enables the slaughter. Containment kills. The slaughter of innocents is the worst cost of containment, but it is not the only cost.