brody
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While I'd like to be able to claim that you can't accurately judge Australia based on it's rapperz and news anchors, I fear that for the most part that you can.
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i care about the US, actually more it's allies, because that's my tax dollars and my government that has committed these atrocities. they're the only government in the world that i can have an impact on. it's fine that "iraqi's have moved on". the…
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i never said that there was nothing good going on in the country, just that the horror visted upon iraq by the US and it's allies over the past 25 years is a major crime and the criminals should be punished. the US' impact on iraq has been ridiculou…
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when figures like that are trotted out as a source of pride for the US, i imagine how people would react if, say, after the indonesia invaded east timor, indonesia tried to say that despite all the dead civilians east timor is better for it because …
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"3) on my original statement I'll repeat, the story was exploited and exaggerated by the government to weaken international support for sanctions, and that when infant mortality really took off it was because of saddam's twisted prioities rather tha…
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I'm unsure what that has to do with what i was writing. you wrote: "I'm saying a lot of that story about Iraqi children dying from sanctions was made up and exploited by the regime to get rid of sanctions." i simply highlighted that it wasn't made u…
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motown67, what a very perculiar thing to write. you're basically saying that the first gulf war, followed by UN imposed sanctions, resulted in a marked increase in the infant mortality rate. you then say that despite the oil for food program, the in…
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really? there were a couple of robust studies done around 2000 that showed a significant increase in childhood mortality rates in south central iraq resulting from the first gulf war and the sanctions. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0…