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<blockquote>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.<br /><br />Here's an example:<br /><br />"The London Observer amplified a BBC2 documentary which aired in 2002 and exposed Saddam?s tactics. ?Small coffins, decorated with grisly photographs of dead babies and their ages??three days?, ?four days?, written useful for the English-speaking media?are paraded through the streets of Baghdad on the roofs of taxis, the procession led by a throng of professional mourners.? There is only one problem, the program observes: because there are not enough dead babies around, the Regime prevents parents from burying infants immediately, as is the Muslim tradition, to create more powerful propaganda. An Iraqi taxi driver interviewed on the program observed, ?They would collect bodies of children who had died months before and been held for mass processions.? A Western source visited an Iraqi hospital and, in the absence of his ?minder,? was shown ?a number of dead babies, lying stacked in a mortuary, waiting for the next official procession.?"<br /><br />But don't let facts get in the way. Besides your main point is the U.S. is bad. I get it. </blockquote><br />Propaganda leading up to the 1st Gulf War under Bush Sr. said that the Iraqis went into hospitals in Kuwait and took babies out of incubators and stole the incubators.<br /><br />This all turned out to be bullshit, but it was part of the "worse than Hitler" bullshit propaganda campaign that was being run then to support the war.<br /><br />Hussein was a murderous dictator and getting rid of him was a worthwhile goal but it wasn't worth what the Iraq war cost us and the Iraqis - not just economically but in human lives. I'm not sure how anyone reaches the opposite conclusion without making up a whole lot of shit. There are plenty of countries run by people just as bad as Hussein. We could have an Invasion Of The Month if we wanted, but that would just be nuts.<br /><br />Like the invasion of Iraq was nuts.
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