Maddow: MSNBC Special on Iraq WMD Will "Upset" Many

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23. and sanctions that really hurt the Iraqi population.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/170/41910.html

AMY GOODMAN: President Clinton, UN figures show that up to 5,000 children a month die in Iraq because of the sanctions against Iraq.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: (Overlap) That's not true. That's not true. And that's not what they show. Let me just tell you something. ....

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AMY GOODMAN: The past two UN heads of the program in Iraq have quit, calling the US policy ... US/UN policy, genocidal. What is your response to that?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: They're wrong! They think that we should reward ... Saddam Hussein says, I'm going to starve my kids unless you let me buy nuclear weapons, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

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Bill Clinton was very much into the Bush idea of how Iraq should be treated. I know people get mad at me for saying that, but Bush 1 started with Gulf War, Clinton weakened that nation with sanctions then Jr. came in for the kill. Clinton was part of this, so get mad. I don't care, it's the damn truth right in front of your eyes. Clinton was part of the culling of Iraq. And I don't want his wife any where Near a position to do that to another country.


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More importantly, the entire Oil-for-Food program is fundamentally flawed. It forces Baghdad to purchase all of its goods outside of Iraq, thus doing nothing to rebuild and "develop" its shattered economy and infrastructure. As a result, despite more Oil-for-Food goods entering the country than ever before, massive unemployment and poverty persist. Couple this with the fact that Iraq gets zero investment to repair infrastructure, and you have all the ingredients for an indefinite, manufactured humanitarian crisis. Over 20% of children remain chronically malnourished. And epidemics of water-borne diseases continue.