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1,000,000 Iraqis Died As a Result of Clinton's Policies... 85,000 Died During "Bush's War" (video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | Oct. 15, 2009 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/15/2009 2:22:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

In 1996 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright admitted that Bill Clinton's policy that resulted in 500,000 dead Iraqi children was worth it. In a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl and Madeleine Albright on "60 Minutes" back on May 12, 1996:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

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1 posted on 10/15/2009 2:22:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m no fan of Clinton, but that 1,000,000 figure is BS.


2 posted on 10/15/2009 2:23:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Incredible.


3 posted on 10/15/2009 2:26:00 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dems take responsibility for what amounts to genocide, no peep from the media.


4 posted on 10/15/2009 2:31:19 PM PDT by Rodebrecht (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The million figure was baloney.

They had started the drumbeat for normalizing relations, and as a part of that started repeating endlessly that sanctions had killed a million children. This was based on statistical analysis, that there were a million fewer children (based on what, exactly) than there would have been had nothing changed and there had been no war.

This did not consider the thought that in the economic debacle they were living through people might have changed their behaviors and simply had fewer children. This is assuming the numbers were based on anything real, and not simply spun out of thin air.

The very same people that claimed sanctions were killing millions of children switched sides without missing a beat when Bush started preparing for war, and started claiming that sanctions were working, and we should continue to let them work. If the original story were true, you’d have to say that Bush saved the lives of nearly a million children by invading.

The bogus claims of high death tolls from the invasion were derived the same way, by statistical analysis that assumed normal birth and death rates. Death counts based on actually counting bodies and patients in hospitals were quite low and mostly military age men. So the press has usually gone for the back-calculated number in preference to the empirical number, which is to say, the actual number.


5 posted on 10/15/2009 2:31:55 PM PDT by marron
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To: dfwgator

Saddam starving his people to fight back against sanctions. The gassed norther Kurds, draining and burning the southern wetlands in Iraq to drive the people from their land. Finally the oil for food program that didn’t really result in food getting to the people.

I’m not positive of the time line of all of these events.


6 posted on 10/15/2009 2:32:53 PM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

7 posted on 10/15/2009 2:34:18 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (America is at that awkward stage..2 late 2 work within the system, but 2 early 2 shoot the bastards)
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To: listenhillary; Free ThinkerNY
Saddam starving his people to fight back against sanctions. The gassed norther Kurds, draining and burning the southern wetlands in Iraq to drive the people from their land. Finally the oil for food program that didn’t really result in food getting to the people.

Well, yes. Somehow I overlooked the obvious in my analysis. If Saddam killed several hundred thousand people in the south, and imposed a reign of terror, that just might statistically show up as a million fewer children.

To the degree that the million is real, we'd have to admit that it was a failed policy and that GW Bush saved the lives of untold numbers. Add that to the fifty million he liberated.

8 posted on 10/15/2009 2:41:15 PM PDT by marron
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why not just say “Since 1996, 55,000,000 Iraqis all over the world have been killed by the U.S.” It makes just as much sense.

The death count is more like 35,000.


9 posted on 10/15/2009 2:44:49 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: dfwgator

Oh, I forgot to add...

NO (0) Iraqi’s were killed or died BECAUSE of the embargo. Saddam had enough money to buy 35 mansions for himself, so it’s fair to say that he had enough money to feed the people.


10 posted on 10/15/2009 2:45:51 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: Rodebrecht

Yup. When they do it, it’s fine. Hypocrites. Evil hypocrites.


11 posted on 10/15/2009 2:51:45 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

Lefties didn’t object when Clinton invaded Haiti. What a joke that was. During Iraq they screamed only when American interests are at stake should US troops be deployed. Ha ha.


12 posted on 10/15/2009 3:05:57 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: TNCMAXQ

Lefties get away with murder, literally. I despise them more and more.


13 posted on 10/15/2009 3:16:41 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ping


14 posted on 10/16/2009 9:36:24 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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