Dear Hakan, I hold no brief for the second Gulf war and am totally disgusted with George Bush and was so before it became cool to be disgusted with George Bush. However, this assertion about the US led blockade has always seemed to me grossly unfair. Large numbers of children (and adults for that matter) died as a direct consequence of how Sadam chose to spend the money from the oil for food program. He built 27 palaces and diverted money to rebuild his military. Given how he gassed and tortured Iraqis before the first Gulf war he needed no help from the US to visit atrocities on his own people. If he had used the money the way it was intended, for food and medicine, nobody would have starved. Also, this is without taking into consideration the hundreds of millions of dollars he had stashed away outside the country that could have been used to feed his people. Or do we say that, since he was a head of state, he stole the money fair and square so it was his?
Rick >> >> >>>Kim, >>> >>>During the years between the first and the second Gulf war, a very >>>large number of children died each year, something that Galloway >>>picked up in his part of the US "oil for food" hearings. "..- who died >>>only because the fact that they were born in Iraq at the wrong time". >>>Many 1,000's more than anything from the hurricane. I still have the >>>Galloway speech at, >>> >>>http://hakanfalk.com/msnbc_uk_galloway_blisters_us_on_iraq_050517-01b.wmv >>> >>>This was a direct consequence of the US led blockade. In this case >>>it was not the parents, it was the "Americans". I did not see many >>>Americans being upset about that. >>> >>>Hakan >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
