FA_Q2
Gold Member
UN Sanctions on IraqUs killing Iraqi Muslims.
al Qaeda killing around the world.
Who has killed more?
NOTE: How many times has Iraq attacked the US?
Depends on what you are referring to. In Iraq, Saddam killed more Iraqi's in the 10 years leading up to the war than the 10 years that we were at war with them. It is rather interesting that FEWER people were dying in open warfare than were dying in peacetime in that country.
"Estimates of civilian deaths during from the sanctions range from 100,000 to over 1.5 million, most of them children."
There was no peace for Iraq between the end of Gulf War I and the US invasion in March of 2003.
wow, 100k or 15 times that number? Sounds like those estimates need some more refining or they are complete crap.
Either way, sanctions are not the direct cause of those deaths anyway. Did the rich go without? Were there problems with the resources for those in power? The answer is no. The deaths from those sanctions center mainly around the manipulations of that country's leaders - in other words were results of Saddam and how he distributed things in his own country. Or do you believe that we have a moral obligation to ensure bloodthirsty dictators that threaten our interests have access to our trade? The end result is that there is no obligation for anyone to trade with any particular country.