Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq -- The New Rulers of the World?

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Subject: Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq

Author:
Bob

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Date Posted: 16:46:52 03/13/03 Thu
In reply to: Paul 's message, "Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq" on 15:17:24 03/13/03 Thu

How is it, then, that Sadam has been able to amass a personal fortune of close to 2 Billion dollars? The man has 40 palaces yet, as you state his people have to live on $100 per year.

>Thanks Suggs. Hi "Rich" - now there's a capitalist,
>emblamatic name if ever there was, lol!
>
>You mention the Oil For Food deal. It sounds great in
>principle but in practice it's a different matter
>altogether I think. So blatant is the obstruction of
>Kofi Annan that he complained to the UN that the
>delays 'were seriously impaing the effective
>implementation of the OFF program'. Noam Chomski
>reports on his website that 'Kofi Annan urged the
>approval of water, sanitation and electrical contracts
>"without delay" because of "their paramount importance
>to the welfare of the Iraqi people".
>
>There's reams of this stuff and needless to say I'm
>not going to sit here typing out thousands of words.
>
>Further, Hans Von Sponeck (UN Official to Iraq) is
>quoted as saying that the OFF program allows $100 per
>person to live on for a year. (Sponeck) "It is simply
>not possible for someone to live on that amount".
>Taking a quote from John Pilger, he says that Sponeck
>told him, "Set that pittence against the lack of clean
>water, the fact that electricity fails for up to 22
>hours a day, and the majority of sick people cannot
>afford treatment, and the shear trauma of trying to
>get from day-to-day, and you have a glimpse of the
>nightmare. And make no mistake, this is deliberate. I
>have not in the past wnated to use the word genocide,
>but now it is unavoidable".

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq	Bob	16:56:14 03/13/03 Thu
Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq -- Caveman, 18:17:28 03/13/03 Thu Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq -- Rich, 18:35:53 03/13/03 Thu The conquering of Iraq $$ �� %% -- Suggs, 14:03:15 04/11/03 Fri