[Mb-civic] I Don't Know Why I keep Bitching About 11, 000 Stupid Dead Iraqis...

[richard haase]

i dont want the iraquis to be dead cheeseburger

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Subject: [Mb-civic] I Don't Know Why I keep Bitching About 11, 000 Stupid
Dead Iraqis...


> I Don't Know Why I keep Bitching About 11,000 Stupid Dead Iraqis...
>
> http://againstbombing.org/deaths.htm
>
>
> I think about the 11,000 dead Iraqis, why they died, what they were doing,
> who were they, what were their lives like, who were their families, who
> loved them, were they good, were they bad, were they terrorists, armed
> insurgents, people at weddings, children walking on the street,
> grandmothers cooking dinner when the bombs fell or the bullets and
missiles
> sped to their destiny and snuffed their lives out like they were nothing.
>
> But then I come across stupid web sites like the one above quoting the
> Statistics as to what "Sanctions" did to Iraq "back when" before we hit
> them this time and how many people died because of Sanctions, and 11,000
> dead Iraqis seems almost stupid to even consider as being "large", even
> though it is over 3 times the amount of those killed in the Trade Centers.
>
> In the face of how "Sanctions" against Iraq decimated the people and the
> huge numbers that perished in Iraq because of them, one wonders why we
> would even bother to Occupy Iraq and kill a measly 11,000 when we were
> already doing VASTLY better destroying MASSIVE amounts of "Common Iraqis"
> just by sitting in D.C. and chatting with our hair stylists.
>
> With no-fly zones in north and south Iraq, and Sanctions crippling and
> destroying Vast portions of the population compared to "Now", that only
> leaves "The Oil" for any legitimate reason for an invasion, especially in
> the face that we were initially primarily and most importantly, at the
> time, after some small dude named bin-Laden before we kind of got off on
> this Yee-Haw little tangent, LOL....
>
> Shhhh....  Don't mention "Oil" around the American Media, we don't want to
> make them nervous.
>
> Oh well, this note just died, as simply as those 11,000 Iraqis and 1,100
> Americans that have died purposelessly in an illegal war concocted by
assholes.
>
> In an election year.
>
> Sowwy....      :|
>
>
> Here's that article by some Catholic Bishops.  The "Statistics" are
> scary.  They're old.  Maybe you've seen them already.  It fascinates me to
> read them, though.  I keep trying to figure out what all these dead Iraqis
> did to America other than invade Kuwait.  We found their nut leader in a
> hole.  Maybe it's time we give them back their country.  They couldn't
> screw it up any more than we have.  Oh, nevermind, I forgot the Oil there
> for a second, lol...:
>
>
> Iraq Death Statistics
>
> IRAQ
>
> The UN-imposed economic sanctions have been in place since the end of the
> Gulf War in 1991. While the sanctions have had little effect on the
> policies of the Iraqi Government, they have taken a chilling toll on the
> civilian population.
>
> During the Gulf War, US-led Coalition forces dropped 88,500 tons of bombs
> on Iraq, more than were dropped on Europe during WWII. Targets included
> electrical generating plants, water treatment facilities, and sewage
> treatment plants. Because of the sanctions, Iraq has been unable to repair
> or replace these facilities which are vital to the health of the entire
> civilian population. As a result, disease has been rampant.
>
> The Iraqi Ministry of Health estimates that 109,720 persons have died
> annually between August 1990 and March 1994 as a direct result of the
> sanctions.
>
>  >From The Children are Dying: Reports by UN Food and Agriculture
> Organization. Since August 1990, 567,000 children in Iraq have died as a
> consequence of the sanctions.
>
> THE LANCET, Volume 346 Number 8988. Saturday December 2, 1995.
>
> After the sanctions, there was a two-fold increase in infant mortality and
> a five-fold increase in under-5 mortality.
>
> The LANCET Volume 346, Number 8988. Saturday December 2, 1995.
>
> There are 4,500 children under the age of 5 dying each month from hunger
> and disease. In Central/Southern Iraq, 27.5 percent of Iraq's three
million
> children (some 900,000) are now at risk of acute malnutrition.
>
> UNICEF Report
>
> Due to the hazards of the water supply, government statistical office
> figures show 1,819 cases of typhoid fever in 1989 and 24,436 cases in
1994.
> Similarly, there were no reported cases of cholera in 1989, but 1,345
cases
> in 1994.
>
>  >From "The Children are Dying": Reports by UN Food and Agricultural
> Organization.
>
> Fifty percent of rural people have no access to potable water.
> Waste-water treatment facilities have stopped functioning in most urban
areas.
>
> UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
>
> In rural areas, only half the people have access to a water supply from a
> network, public tap, or well, and only 34 percent have a sanitary type of
> latrine.
>
> UNICEF Report
>
> Article 48 of the Geneva Convention reads: It is prohibited to attack,
> destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensible to the survival of
> the civilian population such as food, livestock, agricultural areas and
> drinking water installations.
>
> "Whatever the intent of these sanctions, the means violates the most basic
> tenets of Catholic Moral Theology moreover, they violate international law
> by targeting civilians and the infrastructure necessary for their
existence."
>
> Bishop Thomas Gumbleton & Catholic Bishops
>
>
>
>
> Cheeseburger
>
> - Where has the sparrow gone now that I need its song.
>
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