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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Personally, if Madeline Albright can say, on national television, that 500,000 Iraqi citizen deaths are worth the price of getting Hussein to abide by the UN resolutions and nobody from the clinton fan club bitched, then they don't have a right to bitch now about the deaths.
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I bitched a great deal when they decided to kill off hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis in the 90s. The economic sanctions were clearly wrong, and the result was that the same people Hussain persecuted were starved by us in an attempt to control Hussain. There is madness to that logic. We restricted medical supplies, food and water, chemicals (such as chlorine, needed for disinfecting water), and Albright sat up there on her potium and said it was worth it. George H. W. Bush - "By making life uncomfortable for the Iraqi people, [sanctions] would eventually encourage them to remove President Saddam Hussein from power"*. Saddam was not overthrown, and innocent people died. The UN was wrong. Bush 1 was wrong. It was wrong then and it's wrong now for us to invade and destroy.
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www.commondreams.org/views03/0807-01.htm