Denver Post, February 04, 2005
Churchill rant has some truth
By Reggie Rivers
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But while it's easy to attack Churchill's inflammatory words, it's
harder to deny the core argument of his essay. It is a critique of
U.S. policies around the globe, particularly the 12 years of
sanctions in Iraq that former U.N. Assistant Secretary General Denis
Halladay denounced as "a systematic program ... of deliberate
genocide."
I have long been a vocal opponent of sanctions in Iraq, because
everything I read on the subject revealed that it was regular
citizens, not the leadership, who suffered under sanctions. Saddam
Hussein easily circumvented the restrictions, made billions of
dollars and built more palaces. It was regular Iraqis who died for
lack of clean water, sewage-treatment facilities and basic medical
supplies.
Never having paid attention to football, this is the first time I
hear of Reggie Rivers, A very interesting man.
I've looked into a good deal of mainstream media coverage of the Ward
Churchill affair, and the only articles that made a point of
emphasizing the kernels of truth in Churchill's essay were penned by
Black columnists, one being Rivers and the other being Bill Johnson
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_3516162,00.html>.
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Yoshie
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