American Logic

[ConservativeDemocrat]

45. As you are engaging earnestly instead of the typical shitposting we see on DU by the far left...

...you deserve an earnest reply.


Here are the facts. The sanctions we imposed were not on food. And Zaidi's report, which you are linking to in that NYT article, was based on false data. The Iraqi government really wanted us to lift the sanctions, so tried to twist it to look like we were killing children.

However that strategy backfired. Indeed, the "weapon sanctions aren't working and killing children" was one of the specific excuses that Tony Blair and George Bush used to justify the invasion. We weren't killing people, you see. We were saving the children.

To her credit, Zaidi retracted her report a few years on, after she was able to revisit Iraq and find out what was really going on.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/14/1460217/-Madeleine-Albright-The-Iraq-Sanctions-Myth

So no. The "evil Clinton administration" wasn't killing Iraqis by forcing an embargo on them to curb Saddam's behavior. Just like with ending Iran's nuclear program, economic sanctions are an effective alternative to war.

And it is bizarre to me to hear members of the far left agree with people like Cheney and Rumsfeld in arguing otherwise.

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