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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mrknowitall who wrote (12607)	11/3/1998 4:59:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

Mr. K The death rate of villagers has risen to 1000% to what it was before the sanctions. What makes you think it wouldn't return to what it was. Seems obvious things would begin to improve in the area if trade was opened up. Sure Saddam will continue his despotism, but healthy villagers provide resources. <<Any aid will be siphoned off to Saddam's friends and any cash inflow will be redirected at acquiring technology to strike back.>> I'm not talking about aid. The country can easily pay for far more than is needed. <<You really feel that the innocents are going to be the recipients of some newly found humanity on his part? >> No, definately not. But then, my employer doesn't provide a check for the sustanence of me and my family every two weeks out of humanitarianism. <<You are entirely correct that the strategy has failed to accomplish its original goal. Now the question is what to do? >> Stop waiting around for the finger wagger to work it out for us. Make it an issue. Expose the truth of the cost in human suffering that we are sponsoring while BC councils young interns. Call for action in our government. <<If the sanctions were to be dropped today, a few years from now when he's shipped a nuclear device upriver to Washington or into NY harbor and killed and injured millions of Americans,>> I thought we were trying to keep him from launching a weapon? I also thought you understood that these santions don't target Saddam or his military. He knows the first sign of weaponry and we come in blasting with both barrels and that is the ONLY reason his military build up is suppressed. <<or smuggled a deadly nerve agent into a huge office complex or mall,>> The world is watching the daily death count of innocent villagers rise month by month. The likelihood of terrorism by people witness to this injustice rises with each death. Supporting its continuation, is acting as an agent to such outragious retaliatory acts. <<we can all get together and applaud our earlier sensitivity and generosity. >> To stop a policy that directly targets the death of countless innocent villager children per month is sensitive and generous? Why did you leave out benevolent?