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Originally posted by Gynecologist
That is bad but is dwarfed by the nubmers of Iraqi children who died in the last decade due to lack of medical supplies since the start of sanctions.
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only idiots keep talking about sanctions, and child deaths in Iraq, have a look at this statistic:
A 1999 State Department report estimated that Saddam had built 48 palaces since 1991, at a cost of approximately $2.2 billion. This was in addition to the 20 or so palaces he possessed prior to the Gulf War
You can buy a lot of medicine for your 'sick children' with 2.2 billion dollars, however Saddam preferred to build a palace, whom is to blame for Iraq's dying children again? sanctions? or the spending of a tyrant?