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In reply to the discussion: Cluster Bombs Are Not Good For Children, Hillary [View all]Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)39. From the article
The Clinton Sanctions Were Calamitous
Senator Clinton is currently trying to build a campaign around her experience in the White House, but she refuses to take responsibility for the most inhumane and disastrous foreign policy operation of the Clinton years: the infamous economic sanctions against Iraq. The sanctions, a colossal failure, formed the centerpiece of Clinton foreign policy. While the sanctions began with Bush senior in 1990, they were carried out and enforced with a vengeance by the Clinton Administration. The second war against Iraq actually began long before George Bush launched the shock-and-awe bombings in 2003. The Clinton sanctions afflicted the entire Iraqi population. Child mortality, as well as the death rate for the elderly and the chronically ill, skyrocketed. Malnutrition debilitated the country. Irrigation and sanitation systems collapsed. Common diseases multiplied. The Iraqi medical services, the most advanced medical system in the Mideast prior to the sanctions, fell apart. Farmers ran out of fertilizers and machine parts. Thousands of trained professionals fled the country. The sanctions, combined with surprise bombing raids, destroyed the entire infrastructure.
As the full magnitude of the calamity became public knowledge, humanitarian organizations, like Voices in the Wilderness, made appeals to the White House. Denis Halliday, former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, resigned in protest in 1998. (His successor, H.C. von Sponeck, later resigned as well). Contemptuous of human rights and world opinion, President Clinton blocked Russian and French proposals to end the sanctions.
Senator Clinton is currently trying to build a campaign around her experience in the White House, but she refuses to take responsibility for the most inhumane and disastrous foreign policy operation of the Clinton years: the infamous economic sanctions against Iraq. The sanctions, a colossal failure, formed the centerpiece of Clinton foreign policy. While the sanctions began with Bush senior in 1990, they were carried out and enforced with a vengeance by the Clinton Administration. The second war against Iraq actually began long before George Bush launched the shock-and-awe bombings in 2003. The Clinton sanctions afflicted the entire Iraqi population. Child mortality, as well as the death rate for the elderly and the chronically ill, skyrocketed. Malnutrition debilitated the country. Irrigation and sanitation systems collapsed. Common diseases multiplied. The Iraqi medical services, the most advanced medical system in the Mideast prior to the sanctions, fell apart. Farmers ran out of fertilizers and machine parts. Thousands of trained professionals fled the country. The sanctions, combined with surprise bombing raids, destroyed the entire infrastructure.
As the full magnitude of the calamity became public knowledge, humanitarian organizations, like Voices in the Wilderness, made appeals to the White House. Denis Halliday, former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, resigned in protest in 1998. (His successor, H.C. von Sponeck, later resigned as well). Contemptuous of human rights and world opinion, President Clinton blocked Russian and French proposals to end the sanctions.
Hillary's concern for women and children is fleeting.
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cantbeserious
May 2015
#1
Thats why Hillary's hired hundreds of advisors & pollsters, to tell her what positions will give her the best chance to win these nomination. It's just smart politics.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2015
#8
Hillary wants to prove a woman can be president (as long as her husband is president first).
NYC_SKP
May 2015
#4
I still think Elizabeth is gonna jump in the race. (Got my fingas crossed.) Watch, you'll see.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2015
#7
mind you, if you wrote a thesis disrespecting a seminal community organizer...
reddread
May 2015
#101
"I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it."
nationalize the fed
May 2015
#5
There is a theory that a a female candidate must appear very, very tough and hawkish
Dragonfli
May 2015
#9
One that when talking about a specific Senate bill, mentions which Senate bill it is.
Agschmid
May 2015
#33
It's not a deflection I'm a Bernie supporter but Common Dreams doesn't even tell you which bill.
Agschmid
May 2015
#32
LOL at all the "I'm a Bernie supporter, but..." posters. Thanks for your concern. nt
Romulox
May 2015
#34
LOL at the people okay with a source which lacks any citations, and real information.
Agschmid
May 2015
#35
Nah ........ I just have to look at histories of wars around the world and who started them
polly7
May 2015
#67
No, you just really enjoy posting right-wing shit and ignoring the effects of ugly war
polly7
May 2015
#103