Robert Seeberger wrote:
> The former NATO commander said that instead of conducting a
> bloody house-to-house battle to root out Saddam's loyalists,
> U.S. ground troops should blockade the city.
> "All we have to do is surround it and starve it out," he
> told Hannity.
The problem is that to starve out the people who are clearly Saddam's
loyalists you must first starve several million people in Bagdad who
are of a different religion than Saddam and probably his enemies.
(Remember, more than half the population of Bagdad is Shi'ite.)
Moreover, Saddam has already starved his enemies: after the 1991 Gulf
War, the UN permitted the Iraqi government to sell oil and import
food, but the Iraqi government decided to forgo those imports and
starve its enemies.
This was a major victory for the Iraqi government, since the action
not only led to its enemies dying, but many mass media in the West
photographed the starving children of Saddam's enemies and said that
economic sanctions were bad and that the only choice was either to
disarm Iraq by going to war or else to permit Iraq to re-arm itself
and, eventually, to gain greater power over dependents, such as
Europe.
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