Xithras (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-30-11 04:26 PM
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41. Bill Clintons policies led to the deaths of nearly a million Iraqi's.
Clinton didn't need to invade them to make their lives miserable. He simply deprived them of food, medicine, technology, clean drinking water, and pretty much everything else needed to maintain a modern society. The UN put the death toll of the sanctions at nearly 1 million people, including several hundred thousand children. It's also now public knowledge, and former SoS Madeline Albright has admitted, that the sanctions were only kept in place because of U.S. pressure. In her own words, " I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
According to the WHO, the total Iraqi death count due to warfare during the Bush regime was up to 223,000 people.
Al Gore promised to continue Bill Clintons policies. Given the numbers above, many Iraqi's might argue with the premise that they'd have been better off without the invasion. I opposed, and still oppose, the war, but this idea that Clinton/Gore would have treated the Iraqi people better is a rewriting of history. The Clinton policies were a nightmare for average Iraqi's.

No such thing is true. Bill Clinton, under resolutions agreed to by your vaunted United Nations, allowed Iraq to sell as much oil as it wanted, pursuant to Iraq's international agreements. This means that if Saddam Hussein were an honest man, he could have bought all the food, medicine, and civilian scope technology he wanted. Instead he used the money to build palaces for himself and his cronies, buy weapons illegal for him to posess, oppress the Iraqi Shias and Kurds (I thought you DUmmies liked oppressed people),and finance the Palestinians against Israel.
Baghdad had all of the fresh water filter and pumping stations that it needed. Seven to be exact. Six of the seven had been redirected to Saddam's palace complex to make the lakes safe for Saddam to swim.
I happened to tour Victory Over America Palace with an Iraqi farmer who lived two or three miles beyond the complex walls. He pointed out his home from the balcony. He told us how the rest of Iraq died of thirst, and knew nothing of all the water Saddam was holding in the lakes. I have a picture showing his farm, but need help posting it.
I guess oppression doesn't matter to a DUmmie as long as America can't be blamed.