From: Archibald Scatflinger (TransdimensionalElf@hawaii.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 00:28:41 MDT
[joe]
> We did not have it coming, but they do, and we will dish it out to them in
> spades.
> > ----
Lie: The U.S. government cares about the welfare of the Iraqi people.
Flounders: This is probably the most absurd lie of them all.
Let me explain how the U.S. government "takes care" of the Iraqis' welfare:
Since 1990, Washington has been the leading world force imposing war and
sanctions on the country. In the 1991 war, U.S. air strikes destroyed the
electric grid and power plants, water refineries, the sewage system,
pharmaceutical and food-production plants.
Since then, sanctions have murdered 1.5 million Iraqis, including 700,000
children. UN agencies say the sanctions still kill 4,500 Iraqi children each
month.
On "60 Minutes" a few years ago, Leslie Stahl asked then-UN Ambassador
Madeleine Albright if U.S. policies were worth killing a half-million Iraqi
children. Albright answered, "Yes, it is worth it."
That's U.S. humanitarism in a nutshell.
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