| Subject: Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq |
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Bob
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Date Posted: 16:56:14 03/13/03 Thu
In reply to:
Bob
's message, "Re: Murderous Sanctions in Iraq" on 16:46:52 03/13/03 Thu
And further more (according to freedomhouse.org) Iraqi officals pocket between 1 and 3 billion dollars a year from suggling oil through Syria, Turkey, and the Gulf. It's not our fault that the Iraqis are living in abject poverty. It's Saddam Husseins fault
>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.
>
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>>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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