@camlok,
camlok wrote:Paul Ryan - To deliberately target innocent children is cowardice in its most heinous form.
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Do you mean with cluster bombs, phosphorus bombs, napalm, two ton trucks, carpet bombing, drones, ..., Paul?
I doubt that you can produce credible accounts of the US targeting children with these or any other weapons.
camlok wrote:Or maybe you are referring to the half million Iraqi children you were able to slaughter in the 1990s with the help of the poodle UK.
I question whether the half million figure is even true. But even if it is, your accusation here is hardly fair.
The sanctions on Iraq were the world's response to Saddam's horrible crimes. He is the one who is responsible for those sanctions.
And if the brunt of the sanctions harmed the very poor while Saddam's inner circle lived high on the hog, that was due to Saddam's own corruption.
Perhaps lessons should be learned here so that future sanctions are less easy for a dictator to deflect onto the poor. But to blame anyone other than Saddam for what happened is grossly unfair. The alternative to sanctions, after all, would have been a return to war, which would have meant more bombs being dropped on Iraq.
And I doubt that these figures of a half million dead children are even accurate.
