From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 11:28:04 MDT
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/28/2002 9:14:35 AM Central Standard Time,
> bradbury@aeiveos.com quotes Samantha: We have caused the deaths of
> hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq." Then answers her, "Huh? By
> "we", I presume you mean the U.S. The U.S. (and its allies) caused the
> deaths of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis soldiers
> only *after* they invaded Kuwait. Any deaths due to sanctions are the
> responsibility of the United Nations (not the U.S.). Furthermore, you
> fail to take into account how many people Sadaam might have had killed
> in northern and southern Iraq if he were entirely free of sanctions."
>
> Robert,
> I believe if you will check ot the facts the U. N. didn't cause
> those deaths anymore than the U. S. did. As I recall the situation
> after the Gulf war provision was carefully made so Sadaam would have the
> money he needed for humanitarian purposes. Later it came out that he
> preferred to spend the money for weapons both conventional and WMD than
> to buy food and medicines for his country's children, elderly or
> otherwise incapacitated.
> Robert, without getting into a case of parsing sentences I am
> pretty sure you never meant to infer in any way that the U. N. did cause
> the deaths of Iraqi children and so on. But, I do want to be careful on
> that point otherwise I could just keep quiet.
> If I may make one general remark, not everyone that offers us
> "facts" is our friend nor do they necessarily have the integrity of the
> average copperhead. This seems to be a case in point -- a piece of
> misinformation traceable back to Sadaam himself if I remember correctly.
> Ron h.
Again I point out that no less than Madeline Albright agreed
publichly with these facts. That is a bit difficult to sweep
under the rug.
- samantha
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