Originally posted by: event8horizon
Originally posted by: palehorse74
According to the latest studies conducted by WHO, the number of Iraqi civilian deaths totals around 150,000 (released just last week!) -- not "one million innocent civilian deaths" like that kid in the second video would have you believe...
I'll comment more on this garbage later.
quite your propaganda palehorse. sanctions are a form of warfare. it would be nice if u faced reality and answer my questions on that other post. but u cant.....your a propagandist. it would mean actually thinking for yourself.
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
--60 Minutes (5/12/96)
Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's quote, calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Arab children, has been much quoted in the Arabic press. It's also been cited in the United States in alternative commentary on the September 11 attacks (e.g., Alexander Cockburn, New York Press, 9/26/01).
It's worth noting that on 60 Minutes, Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stahl--a rough rendering of the preliminary estimate in a 1995 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that 567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions. In general, the response from government officials about the sanctions? toll has been rather different: a barrage of equivocations, denigration of U.N. sources and implications that questioners have some ideological axe to grind (Extra!, 3-4/00).