1,000,000 people dead because of Iraq

[berni_mccoy]

The Study by MIT that was recently published in The Lancet reports that over 600,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the Iraq War started by the Bush Administration in 2003.

According to SaveDarfur.org, over 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur.

If a real President had been in power, we would never have gone to war with Iraq and we likely would have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths in Darfur.

The Bush Administration even RECOGNIZES GENOCIDE in Darfur! Why aren't we acting to stop it? Because we are stuck in a war we never should have started.

[sam sarrha]

1. we killed 500,000 in the first gulf war

[mike_c]

2. then another million on Clinton's watch, half of them children....

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[sam sarrha]

5. Link....???? i believe it was saddam that killed his own people..

[mike_c]

6. lots of links....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,232986,00.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/halliday09062003.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/272.html

These are just for starters-- google is your friend. See if you can find what Madeline Albright had to say about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. I don't dispute this but what's your source? n/t

[mike_c]

7. self delete-- replied to wrong post....

sorry

[aquart]

3. No, we probably wouldn't have gone into Darfur anyway.

Although I must say, now that the massacres have spilled over into neighboring countries, the possibility of international intervention seems much more viable.

Generally, when a nation chooses to murder its own citizens, the rest of the world does not interfere. When it gets carried away and starts to murder another nation's citizens, only then is real attention paid.

I'm sure it's in some book of international etiquette.