At 12:35 PM 9/18/2003, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Shawn writes:
>
> > >That's a fairly disingenuous statement, only made worse by the fact 
> that it
> >  >was said knowingly so. The United States has almost certainly killed and
> >  >maimed
> >  >more Iraqis during the last decade than did Saddam Hussein's government.
> >
> >  I'm having a lot of trouble reconciling that with reality.
>
>I can only presume your difficultly stems from a willingness to ignore the
>facts:

This is a perception of facts on your part.  I think that Saddam had far 
more to do with this than the US.  All he had to do was step down and save 
his people.  All he had to do was not subvert the oil for food program 
(which by the way was a nice private slush fund for many in the UN), all he 
had to do was to actually govern his country instead of treating it like 
his own personal sadistic fantasy.  Perhaps you feel that Saddam was a fine 
leader and cared for his people, but I do not.


>"Why Sanctions?
>
>"On 6 August, 1990 the United Nations Security Council imposed comprehensive
>economic sanctions on Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait. After
>Kuwait's occupation ended, the Security Council extended the sanctions, 
>hoping to
>pressure Iraq to end its weapons programmes and to bring about a change of
>regime. In April 1997 a UN report revealed that the number of people dying 
>from the
>sanctions had passed the one million mark and 570,000 of these were children.
>The country’s water systems have been destroyed and people drink water from
>the rivers into which their sewage discharges. Most of those dying have been
>children - between a third and a quarter of the children in Iraq are
>malnourished, often chronically, stunting them for life.
>
>"Before sanctions were imposed Iraq had the highest per capita food
>availability for the region. Iraq had moved away from traditional 
>agriculture to oil
>and industrial production so that, before the war, two thirds of Iraq’s 
>food was
>imported. Adult literacy in Iraq was 95%, education was free at all levels
>including tertiary, and 92% had access to safe drinking water. Iraq’s 
>public
>hospitals were free and there were 9,000 doctors."
>
>--http://www.globaled.org.nz/schools/pdfs/factsheets/Iraq%20effects%20of%20san
>ctions.pdf
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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Shawn Gordon
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