I will still point out this fact -
We went to WAR with Iraq in '91 and after the war, there were conditions to be met by their ruling party. They did not meet those conditions, hence the sanctions. It's not "our" sanctions that killed anyone. It's the lack of compliance by the ruling party that got those kids killed. They had ulterior motives, as did we.
Indirectly did we kill them? Maybe. But let's state the real FACT of this...
Sanctions are conditional...not meeting conditions cause sanctions to persist. This is why people died.
I'm not condoning or condemning sanctions against Iraq. Just stating things as I see them.
I'd like to dissect this however:
"Seven years after the imposition of the blockade on the people of Iraq, more than 1.2 million people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died because of the scarcity of food and medicine."
7 years... 750,000 children eh? Interesting... Well if you look at this page:
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=iz&v=26
you'll see that Iraq is pretty low on the list as death rates go per 1000 people.
Let's compare the United States death rate
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=26
to that of Iraq's death rate
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=iz&v=26
You'll see that Iraq has a significantly lower death rate per 1000 people.
Iraq's population has grown as well
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=iz&v=21
Since there were shortages of food and medicine and all of these deaths were happening, wouldn't you think that such an atrocity would have put a dent in their population?
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