At 10:00 AM 4/6/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >Estimates before the war were of >100,000 people dying every year as a result of Hussein's policy.
Allow me to add to that..... UNICEF estimated that 4,000 *extra* children per month were dying in Iraq because of Saddam, over 1.1 million since 1991. The WHO put the figure even higher, at 5-6,000. UNICEF also estimated that *over* 50% of children under the age of 5 were either malnourished and underweight. We are talking about the emaciation of an entire generation of Arab children here. Just so that we are clear about how much "better" things were in Iraq before the US arrived. And then, to reiterate what Dan said: > believe that the Catholic confession for "what we have done and what we >have failed to do" is a very valid encapsulation for morality. We are >responsible for evil we could have stopped, as well as the evil we do >ourselves. Amen. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
