Hmmmm...You have no interest in anything Scott Ridder says, simply because he is an American. That despite the fact he was THE most prominent and insistent voice against the invasion of Iraq, and that he spent a large amount of time there working for the UN weapons inspectors.
If you accepted anything Mr. Ridder reported as being truthful you would have a harder time dismissing the other inspections he did for the UN.
That prison inspection was one of a long list of inspection done at the request of the US, the same ones that enforced a no-fly zone for everybody but them. The same things they told the people in the south they would do if they revolted against Saddam H. , they withdrew support and that allowed Saddam to sent in the gun-ships, everybody was killed man, woman, child, donkey. That began a round of ever increasing sanctions, the only ones the suffered were the ones who had the fewest things to begin with. The report on the prison was probably not even the worst. In most places the 'child' prison would be empty if they were the children of 'rebels'. Most likely they were the children of parents who died because they were injured and could not compete for the few resources .
Perhaps if a list of banned items was compared to items that are banned from Iran, from Cuba, from Venezuela and Gaza. All sorts of reports say the children fared the worst, that is a fact of life when under military siege or a natural disaster when no relief comes.
The 'being a prick' comes in when the one behind the siege knows it is only harming the least, yet it screws tighten even more. One cannot help but come to the conclusion that Gulf I was a planned operation by the US against their former partner in a 8 year war against Iran. Before Saddam H. entered Kuwait he has made the alligation that wells in Kuwait had slant drilled in fields within Iraq's border.
If truth was even remotely the quest there would have been sample comparisons done and/or examine the drill logs and then verify that the holes went where it was claimed they went. Nothing like that was ever proposed before the machines of war were on the way for the 'confrontation' with a fakes massing on the Saudi border.
By saying more than a million civilians can be killed with full justification doesn't bode well for you should somebody come for your leaders someday. Rather than than the 23M bad apples it will be 230M just to make sure all the bad ones were caught. A neat little project would be to compare the stats, deaths, refugees, civilians causalities, refugees, just to give us the perspective if it was North America (or just the US, Canada would be 'forced' to aid the enemy or have devaluation of the 'oonies'.
The truth is the falsehoods will just be regurgitated, and it is the same plan that is being made against other Nations. Should we do the most heart-rendering one first, the incubator story?
Please - get your homespun maxims right - it's 'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink', and lemmings? They - according to urban legend, jump off a cliff every 7 years or so. Either way, choose one or the other - and get it right.
If your horse isn't thirsty ride him to the next water-hole on your journey, keep repeating. When you say 'lead' you are talking about being aboard and not 'hoofing' it yourself I hope. If not you probably will forget to drink and you will die of thirst before you get to the next water-hole.
Rabbits go cannibal when they surpass the food supply, what is your point when you apply that to people caught in a 'war-zone'? Slaughter them before they can suffer?
so let me guess - this 1998 article is the 'real' truth. Why? why is it more 'truthful' than anything else out there?
You know what? I wasn't a fan of the invasion of Iraq. does that mean that
i think that Sadaam H. was a hero? Nope. so he brought electricity to a lot of Iraq. That's nice. Mussolini made the trains in Italy run on time. Do I admire Mussolini? Nope.
Too bad there wasn't a report on humanitarian services before Gulf I and a UN report how things improved under the boot of a US Military Siege
Sadaam H. was nice to the people he wanted to be nice to. The Kurds weren't on the list. The husband of his second wife wasn't on the list.
Here's a question. You ask why people support the USA in spite of the invasion and the death toll it has had on the Iraqi population, well why do you love Sadaam H. and why do you accept all the havoc he wrecked upon his own country (I won't say his people, because he chose who his 'people' were.
Name the years his people suffered worse than they have since the end of Gulf I
So come on - give it up - where is all this Sadaam groupie-ness coming from? Is it the mustache? That 'I have control over your life and I can snuff it out whenever I feel" aura he projects? I mean, there are people who develop a sincere 'relationships' with serial killers in prison - maybe it's not much different.
No groupiness, the topic is how truthful are all the various reports that lead up to the current condition and whether and end is really part of the long-term goal. That includes the total destruction of the local population, not just of there but Afghanistan as well.
And, by the way, it seems that you've chosen to be propogandized by the Sadaam H. party. You don't seem to be any different than the people you condemn - unless of course, you can offer up a 'real' argument? Not just some old out dated article? come on! if you REALLY have the courage of your convictions, giver something concrete to back your stance - what you gave? Pure Piffle!
Answer the question about slant-drilling.
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