"it is worth the cost to set an example"
"We've decided, that it is worth the cost to set an example." quote from secretary of state Madeline Albright before a national audience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
"What we say, goes!" then President of the United States Geeorge Herbert Walker Bush.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Since the first gulf war till 2003 the official count of 1.3 million dead in Iraq from a population of fewer than 20 million in a decade after the gulf war ended as a direct result of sanctions including 800,000 iraqi adults the majority of wich were elderly or pregnant women.
150,000 (+/-) iraqi civilians referred to as "collateral damage" a half million iraqi children all under the age of 12
starved to death or forced to die through lack of basic sanitation and/or medical treatment over 10 years as a result of United States actions such as the systematic bombing of iraqs water purification systems, sewage treatment plants, medical facilities and pharmaceutical plants followed immediately by a decade long embargo ensuring iraq would be unable to repair or replace what had been destroyed due to trade sanctions.
"the policy of deliberate genocide" as quoted from high ranking UN official Assistant Secretary General Dennis Halliday who resigned in protest to these actions.
and the real answers to why 9/11 happened lie within these context.
compare the casualty rates from 9/11 to the systematic casualties inflicted upon the iraqi peoples through the coarse of the ten years of sanctions
5000 citizens, 78 british nationals, 300 undocumented aliens.
now we place sanctions on iran. do we not expect a retaliation as a result? a retaliation from a country whom we provided nuclear capability?
www.eurasiareview.com/201006092894/the-wests-unexamined-p...
www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16040
www.casi.org.uk/halliday/bio.html
"if you really want to put an end to terrorism, you have to begin by no longer participating in it." Dr. Naom Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
the manner in which iraqs cities were attacked clearly violated the 1923 Hague Rules of Airial Warfare (article 22) and the 1949 Geneva Convention IV relative to the protection of civilian persons in times of war (article 3)
bombardment of "undefended population centers which is exactly what iraqs cities were, once their triple a was supressed (triple a: antiaircraft artillery) has been formerly defined as a war crime since the Hague convention of 1907 (article 25)
"it is worth the cost to set an example"
"We've decided, that it is worth the cost to set an example." quote from secretary of state Madeline Albright before a national audience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
"What we say, goes!" then President of the United States Geeorge Herbert Walker Bush.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Since the first gulf war till 2003 the official count of 1.3 million dead in Iraq from a population of fewer than 20 million in a decade after the gulf war ended as a direct result of sanctions including 800,000 iraqi adults the majority of wich were elderly or pregnant women.
150,000 (+/-) iraqi civilians referred to as "collateral damage" a half million iraqi children all under the age of 12
starved to death or forced to die through lack of basic sanitation and/or medical treatment over 10 years as a result of United States actions such as the systematic bombing of iraqs water purification systems, sewage treatment plants, medical facilities and pharmaceutical plants followed immediately by a decade long embargo ensuring iraq would be unable to repair or replace what had been destroyed due to trade sanctions.
"the policy of deliberate genocide" as quoted from high ranking UN official Assistant Secretary General Dennis Halliday who resigned in protest to these actions.
and the real answers to why 9/11 happened lie within these context.
compare the casualty rates from 9/11 to the systematic casualties inflicted upon the iraqi peoples through the coarse of the ten years of sanctions
5000 citizens, 78 british nationals, 300 undocumented aliens.
now we place sanctions on iran. do we not expect a retaliation as a result? a retaliation from a country whom we provided nuclear capability?
www.eurasiareview.com/201006092894/the-wests-unexamined-p...
www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16040
www.casi.org.uk/halliday/bio.html
"if you really want to put an end to terrorism, you have to begin by no longer participating in it." Dr. Naom Chomsky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
the manner in which iraqs cities were attacked clearly violated the 1923 Hague Rules of Airial Warfare (article 22) and the 1949 Geneva Convention IV relative to the protection of civilian persons in times of war (article 3)
bombardment of "undefended population centers which is exactly what iraqs cities were, once their triple a was supressed (triple a: antiaircraft artillery) has been formerly defined as a war crime since the Hague convention of 1907 (article 25)