On 5 Sep 2002 at 20:28, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
> [joe]
> > We did not have it coming, but they do, and we will dish it out to
> > them in spades.
> > > ----
>
>
> Lie: The U.S. government cares about the welfare of the Iraqi people.
>
> Flounders: This is probably the most absurd lie of them all.
>
> Let me explain how the U.S. government "takes care" of the Iraqis'
> welfare: Since 1990, Washington has been the leading world force
> imposing war and sanctions on the country. In the 1991 war, U.S. air
> strikes destroyed the electric grid and power plants, water
> refineries, the sewage system, pharmaceutical and food-production
> plants.
>
> Since then, sanctions have murdered 1.5 million Iraqis, including
> 700,000 children. UN agencies say the sanctions still kill 4,500 Iraqi
> children each month.
>
> On "60 Minutes" a few years ago, Leslie Stahl asked then-UN Ambassador
> Madeleine Albright if U.S. policies were worth killing a half-million
> Iraqi children. Albright answered, "Yes, it is worth it."
>
> That's U.S. humanitarism in a nutshell.
>
There are 20 million Iraqis, half of them living in or close to Baghdad. If
we had to drop the big one in retaliation, that 1.5 million that have
purportedly (in a biased count not measured against deaths that would
have occurred under that regime without same) died as a result of
Saddam's belligerent noncompliance with UN resolutions (and his
unwillingness to divert his available funds, from war preparations, to
feed and sanitize his people), which the US was tasked by the UN to
support in the last ten years would appear as a 15% drop in the
carnage bucket.
I heard the same arguments from Hermit before; how the Afghanis
viscerally hated us and would fight us on Kipling's plains to the last
man, woman and child. Yet, when they were released from the
bondage of the Taliban, they danced in the streets and welcomed us
with open arms. A few Taliban and Al-Quaeda and Hekmatyr holdovers
still attempt terror attacks, as if they would make a difference, but the
Afghan people know that what they want is possible now, and, now that
it is safe to honestly speak, that their friends are with them.
Such would be the case with iIaq, once they were freed of the
choking yoke of Saddamic oppression. The oppressed citizens of Iraq
will benefit at least as much as everyone else from this liberating action.
it does not just liberate us from the threat of a terror nuke issued from a
messianic madman (although it does indeed do that), it also liberates
the Iraqi people from a terror that they have had to live and die with for
more than twenty years.
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