Clinton's Torture - Madeleine Albright: "500,000 Dead Iraqi Children Was Worth It" »
Posted By pc25 6 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsSometimes Genocide Is OK...
It just depends who is in office at the moment.
Here is a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl and Madeleine Albright on "60 Minutes" back on May 12, 1996 that is not getting much play lately:
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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the 60 minutes interview
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4&eur-
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NoWayMan6 months, 2 weeks ago
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do you have a link to the entire interview that doesn't just take the quote out of context and stop her mid-sentence?
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and btw, you have quote marks above, which means she's supposed to have actually said those words verbatim.
problem is, she didn't say that. which means what you've done is disingenuous at best.
just more pc25 antics.
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA
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It's worth noting that on 60 Minutes, Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stahl--a rough rendering of the preliminary estimate in a 1995 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that 567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions.-
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berkeley6 months, 2 weeks ago
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her words showed her criminal bent, and neither she nor clinton ever even tried to explain them while he was in office. here is her later dishonest "clarification:"
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http://www.fff.org/comment/com0311c.asp
everything about the clinton policy of iraq sanctions was directed toward genocide.
No wonder two UN humanitarian coordinators quit over the sanctions. As one of them, Denis Halliday, said when he left in 1998, “I’ve been using the word ‘genocide’ because this is a deliberate policy to destroy the people of Iraq. I’m afraid I have no other view.”
albright was/is a typical example of the american empire.
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Wolfie20076 months, 2 weeks ago
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Now let me get this straight, Clinton's policies were responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Iraq children and Albright says it was worth it. There was nothing gained by this policy while Iraqi children were dying Saddam got around the sanctions by bribing people all over the world to look the other way and provide him with the things he wanted. The sad truth is Saddam didn't care how many Iraqi children died and neither did Bill Clinton nor Madeleine Albright.
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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yes they were..........the sanctions caused the deaths of over 500,000 thousand Iraqi children.....in the 60 minutes link above NOT TOO BRIGHT does not deny that fact.....part of SADDAM and the FOOD FOR OIL UN SCANDAL....Bush was trying to save American lives, Clinton, and Albright didn't care about lives
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/bush-sav...
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Bill Clinton era embargo: From the 108 months of 6 August 1990 to 6 August 1999, using the United Nations estimate, a total of 1 million Iraqi civilians died as result of the sanctions. Of these, as many as 567,000 of the casualties were children. That is a rate of 9259.259 deaths per month… 5.337 times greater than Bush’s death rate. Justify that, anti-war liberal Democrats. (Clinton actually only gained the Presidency on 20 January 1993, but the sanctions also lasted past the date of the UN estimate - to 22 May 2003, while Clinton stepped down on 20 January 2001.) -
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Wolfie20076 months, 2 weeks ago
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567,000 deaths of Iraqi children were worth it, says Albright, but nothing was gained by Clinton's policy. Then a small number of 9/ll terrorist were interrogated harshly and the interrogation yielded results that saved thousands of American lives but the was that was torture and evil and apparently not worth it. The liberal progressive democrats seem to have a large reality disconnect are these people even playing with a full deck. I don't think so!
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icono16 months, 2 weeks ago
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It is the American people that have the reality disconnect. Our politicians are well aware of that and pander to the populist theme of Political Correctness to stay in office.
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Enhanced torture techniques used to obtain information to save American lives is a very negative high profile news story that 'sells copy'; starving Iraqi children to death via political sanctions is largely under the radar, so therefore not worth writing about.
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Will13136 months, 2 weeks ago
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MUST HAVE BEEN A REAL SLOW OBAMA DAY... but since you like Obama stories so well .. here's one for you.. I'm sure it just slipped under your radar or you would have posted it..
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/04/24/fox-news...
As Barack Obama closes in on his first 100 days as president, majorities of Americans approve of the job he is doing, are satisfied with what he has accomplished so far and think he is keeping his promises, according to a FOX News poll released Friday.
Obama's job approval rating comes in at 62 percent, down just three points from the 65 percent approval he received after his first week in office but up 4 points since the first of this month ( Fox News last poll).
FAIR AND BALANCED.. FOX NEWS..
dredging up 13 year old crap... you nor any of the other posters here gave 2 sh*ts about ANY IRAQI.. man woman or child..
in fact the very things you are using to try to somehow justify torture is the thing that Bush used to justify a war.. HOW MANY IRAQI CHILDREN WERE SIMPLY BLOWN TO BITS....
Here is a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl and Madeleine Albright on "60 Minutes" back on May 12, 1996 that is not getting much play lately...
NOT GETTING MUCH PLAY.. .. IT'S 13 YEAR OLD NEWS..
ANOTHER FEEL GOOD SESSION FROM THE REACH AROUND REPUBLICANS..-
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PatrioticAmerican6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Hey Will1313 ,
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i have a question for you didn't Obama start with a 74-75% approval rating ???? and if so wouldn't you say that a 10 % drop in 100 days is a bad thing ??? i know that if Bushs dropped 3% in a month you on the left would be Saying things like" Bush is unpopular he needs to get out now while he still has some popularity"and that would have been said with in his first 100 days of his first term, OH wait that was said by Several of you on the left. so lets do the math 100 days and a 10% drop so 200 days = 20% drop so that means by the end of his first term he will be in the negatives wow keep up the great work guys in your support of Obama he will need it -
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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MUST HAVE BEEN A REAL SLOW OBAMA DAY... but since you like Obama stories so well .. here's one for you.. I'm sure it just slipped under your radar or you would have posted it..
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as always Will you and the other libs miss the point this is not about Obama. this is about the hyocrist of the Liberal MSM and the Dems.......this is about trying to criminalize differences in policy........this is about the tears you are shedding for and the indignation shown about the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorists who attacked this country and MURDERED thousands of people and planning to murder thousands more yet you are mum about a policy that resulted in the deaths of over 1 million IRAQI civilations and say nothing. The liberal moral compass on this is the following harsh treatment of known terrorists under Bush bad......the genocide of over 1 million IRAQI CIVILIANS under Clinton GOOD.
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truthiness6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Road to Joy
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-Bright Eyes
The sun came up with no conclusion
Flowers sleeping in their beds
This city's cemetery's humming
I’m wide-awake, it’s morning
I have my drugs, I have my woman
They keep away my loneliness
My parents have they have their religion
But sleep in separate houses
I read the body count out of the paper
And now it’s written all over my face
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
Sometimes that’s just the most comfortable place
So I’m drinking, breathing, writing, singing
Everyday I'm on the clock
My mind races with all my longings
But cant keep up with what I got
I hope I don’t sound too ungrateful
What history gave modern man
A telephone to talk to strangers
Machine guns and a camera lens
So when you’re asked to fight a war that’s over nothing
It’s best to join the side that’s gonna win
And no one’s sure how all of this got started
But we’re gonna make them goddam certain how its gonna end
Oh ya we will, oh ya we will!
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else’s voice
But failure’s always sounded better
Lets **** it up boys, make some noise!
The sun came up with no conclusion
Flowers sleeping in their beds
This city's cemetery's humming
I’m wide-awake, it’s morning -
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Dionys6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Starts off with mistruths and ends with lies:
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"Since the US ousted Saddam Hussein and brought democracy to the Middle East the Left has been protesting the civilian and American fatalities that number less than 100,000 combined- and a vast majority of those killed by the terrorists."
Count a few years ago was more than 600,000.-
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spkguy6 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Iraqi civilians killed: Based on this study [pdf], published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006. The study concluded that at least 392,979 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the occupation, in addition to deaths expected from Iraq's normal death rate, through July 2006. The study's mid-point estimate was 654,965, and its high estimate was 942,636. U.S. authorities, including President Bush himself, have loudly complained that the study is based on "flawed methodology" and "pretty well discredited," but as often happens when Bush speaks, that's simply untrue. The study was conducted by Johns Hopkins University, and used standard, widely accepted, peer-reviewed scientific methodology. Explained very briefly, Iraqi respondants in numerous randomly selected locations were asked about recent deaths in their households, and family members were able to show a death certificate to document 80% of the deaths they described. Results from these interviews were extrapolated nationwide, the same way political opinion polls extrapolate a few hundred interviews to reflect nationwide opinions. It's the same method used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to estimate deaths from disease outbreak anywhere in the world, the same method routinely trusted by the U.S. and U.K. when counting deaths from warfare, civil unrest, or other situations anywhere in the world. From the study's lowest estimate of 392,979 deaths occurring over the first 40 months of occupation, we have extended this rate of civilian deaths (9,824 deaths per month) over subsequent months of the occupation since the study was published."
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