Disapprove of WAR?!
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cookie: okay I'll bite... what unbiased resource did you get these numbers from? Just curious... not saying it's not true, but I've never heard of it. And how can it be directly attributed to US bombin campaigns after a war? Educate me
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Ha! Hey I'm biased i';m biased!! :) No worries I'll be back soon - this time with clarification!
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The civilian death toll in 1991-after the massivebombing campaign was stopped- rose to 111,000people. Shortages of medicine and damagedhealth facilities contributed to this high rate of"delayed mortality.'*Of these 111,000 deaths, 70,000 were childrenunder 15 years of age. These deaths were causedby health effects resulting from the destruction ofIraq's civilian infrastructure, especiallyelectricitygenerating power plants, which led to abreakdown in water purification and sanitation. Thisbreakdown caused outbreaks of infectious diseasessuch as cholera, typhoid, malaria, polio, andhepatitis
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Don't get me wrong tfsmag I'm not here to piss ppl off. I just get annoyed when people say it's something not worth discussing! :) Take care!!
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There's always this as well! This is more as a result of sanctions imposed by the UN
It sure is a messed up situation - either way you look at it!
The sanctions have contributed to the death of over 1.5 million Iraqis (MECC 1999). UNICEF estimatesthat an additional half a million children died between 1991 and 1998 compared to the case if mortalityrates had continued to decline on the same trend as in the 1980s [UNICEF 1999].
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I feel really sleepy all of a sudden, http...
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30,000,000 Angolans died during their civil war and nobody gave a shit, also about 2,000,000 Rwandans were slattered and also, nobody gave a shit. Pfffttttttt! It's all relative! Hmmmm? :):(
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I wish everyone would stop killing each other, that's it :(
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I'll agree with that last statement Jaz! :)
- vespa0
Me too. Did you see we've started using cluster bombs?
http://news.independent.co.uk/wo…
The photo with the above article in the paper is of an Arabic man crying in grief over the body of his mother after 15 of his family members were killed.
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Yeah I know it's horrible. Many international laws prevent people from using cluster bombs... US hasn't signed that many treaties tho!
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Caeser...
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
-- Julius Caesar
- vespa0
Interesting quote cookie.
I'm reading "War is a force that gives us meaning" by Chris Hedges at the moment and it is about the mass psychology of war. He has been a war correspondant since the early 80s and said he was addicted to the feeling of belonging to something bigger than yourself, which war brings. He says the rush of adrenaline that calls our young men and women into the fight disappears as quickly as the causes that are used to justify the war machine, leaving only ruined and empty lives in its wake.