Re: [OT] Re: anti-Kerry documentary vs. Moore's antiBush documentary

From: Ool (ulrich.schreglmann_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:30:58 +0200

"Hagnar" <adfggf@frg.net> wrote in message news:10nab0j9hp7i0b3@corp.supernews.com...
> "Ool" <ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:cl28f9$dp9$05$1@news.t-

>> The oil-for-food program also supplied the population with, well, food
>> and medicine and water filtration and spare parts for power plants etc.

> No, the oil for kickbacks program that supplied high UN and europeon
> officials with millions of dollars.
> And supplied Sodum with weapons, and palaces, while starving his people, and
> denying them medical treatment.

Reminds me of another leader who wages all sorts of foolish military
campaigns while he can't even provide his people with universal
healthcare as all other countries with that kind of wealth do...
(Or with flu vaccination...)

Uh-huh. I guess that's why 95% of the Iraqi urban population had run-
ning water. That was down to 60% one year after the invasion and the
bombing of the water filtration plants, but who's counting? (Whether
it's stuff like that or Iraqi casualties--who cares?)

You've still got some work to do if you want to bring living standards
of Iraqis up to even the low level they were at before the war. Of
course now that they've started killing you and each other that may be
an uphill battle...

It was the sanctions that starved the people, not the oil-for-food re-
lief efforts--the very sanctions that the US decided to impose rather
than invade the place at the end of the Gulf War. And before the
sanctions it was the wars that made people's lives miserable there.

And a state of war is what they're back at today. Well, by now they
ought to be used to it. (Only this one they didn't start for a
change...) 

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