Sharon I'd ask your friend for the references to the information he/she has told you.
It is well documented that the Iraqi people are suffering through a massive humanitarian crisis - due to sanctions, then, and due to war, now. Is it the leadership of Iraqs fault? Sure it is. Is it Saddams fault? Sure it is. Should the UN be doing more? Of course they should. Does it matter what the UN thinks? Not any more. Is dropping a 2000 lb bomb on someone going to help them, besides ending their hunger pains? Allow me to digress: "For purposes of the present discussion, however, let us concede that the bombs and missiles strike with all the accuracy claimed for them. What happens then? As described recently by Newhouse reporter David Wood, the 2000-pound JDAM "releases a crushing shock wave and showers jagged, white-hot metal fragments at supersonic speed, shattering concrete, shredding flesh, crushing cells, rupturing lungs, bursting sinus cavities and ripping away limbs in a maelstrom of destruction." Hardly anyone survives within 120 meters of the blast, where pressures of several thousand pounds per square inch and 8,500-degree heat simply obliterate everything, human and material. Metal fragments are spewed nearly three-quarters of a mile, and bigger pieces may fly twice that far; no one within 365 meters can expect to remain unharmed, and persons up to 1000 meters or farther away from the point of impact may be harmed by flying fragments. Of course, the explosions also start fires over a wide area, which themselves may do vast damage, even to structures and people unharmed by the initial blast." Source: http://movingideas.org/article/full_cite/126.html I'd rather be stuck foraging for food in the desert, than be stuck in the desert foraging for food with ANY bombs raining down on me. On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Sharon Hurley wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Thank you for this information. > > > >Someone told me that Iraq was 'starving its own people' by refusing to > >give food to his people and keeping it for his friends (?). Do you have > >anything about this? I was trying to explain that it was the sanctions > >that caused people to starve. > > > >Thanks, > >Sharon > > > >---- > >You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > >list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > ><http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > > Thanks, John Ellingsworth http://ellingsworth.org/john/ ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
