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Killing Iraqis to Save Iraqi Lives A recent case for war in Iraq and, not surprisingly, advanced by George Will on This Week on ABC (March 16, 2003) calculates 60,000 children will die annually under Saddam Hussein and suggests we should attack Iraq to prevent 600,000 dying over the next ten years. Saddam Hussein certainly has some responsibility for these deaths, but the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United States through the United Nations are also part of the problem. To the causes of deaths of children and others in Iraq we can add the depleted uranium scattered by American and British forces over many parts of Iraq. Instead of killing more Iraqis before Saddam, depleted uranium, and degraded living conditions do, surely it would be much better and more civilized to restructure or eliminate the sanctions and clean up the time bombs that depleted uranium represents. |
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