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Originally posted by Syrian Sister
This was yet another glorious victory for the resistance...
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Seems to me prior to 03, Iraq was doing just fine. They wernt in a state of unrest at all.. we created this unrest and we are prolonging it indefinately.
And if this was happening in your cosy ohio suburb.. i could gaurantee you that the suburbanites would be cheering if you destroyed a supply line to the muslim occupiers.
CONCLUSIONS
In an attempt to assess the impact of the United Nations sanctions on the quality of life of the population in Iraq, the following facts should serve as constant reminders in drawing overall conclusions regarding the humanitarian aspects of the sanctions:
5. The vast majority of the country's population has been on a semi-starvation diet for years. This tragic situation has tremendous implications on the health status of the population and on their quality of life, not only for the present generation, but for the future generation as well.
7. Very rarely has the impact of sanctions on millions of people been documented. Severe economic hardship, a semi-starvation diet, high levels of disease, scarcity of essential drugs and, above all, the psycho-social trauma and anguish of a bleak future, have led to numerous families being broken up leading to distortions in social norms.
8. The impact of this unfortunate situation on the infant and child population in particular in Iraq needs special attention. It is not only the data on morbidity and mortality that tell the story, but equally important are the crippling effects of many of these morbidities which are often forgotten. The psychological trauma of the six-week 1991 war and the terrible hardships enduring with the sanctions since then, can be expected to leave indelible marks on the mental health and behavioural patterns of these children when they grow to adulthood. This tragic aspect of the impact of the war and conditions surrounding the sanctions is rarely articulated, but the world community should seriously consider the implications of an entire generation of children growing up with such traumatized mental handicaps, if of course, they survive at all.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Why are they going to kill each other once we leave?
Theyre killing each other because parties are HELPING the USA.
once we are gone, there's no one there to help, sure killings will happen but not on the scale of todays killings.
The most you'd get are gangs killing people who helped them SIGNIFICANTLY.
like the dutch did to the nazi bonkers.
Originally posted by XphilesPhan
You want to know what erks me? I get slapped witha 2000 point wrning for slightly politically charged post.....
yet someone can come on this board and rant about "american soldiers being cowards" blah, blah, blah.....thats cool right? :shk:
its nice opposition to certain views are so embraced here at ATS....rme....
Despite the threat to his life, Wheeler is relatively composed and able to deal with the harrowing situation. He even continues holding the camera and videotaping the unfolding massacre.
Wheeler said almost 40 minutes passed before U.S. troops returned.
"I do not know who the driver was of that Humvee, but he abandoned us," civilian driver Preston Wheeler of Mena, Ark., who taped the footage, told ABC News.
Originally posted by rdang
Freedom fighters,just what freedom are you for? freedom of speech,I don't think so.Freedom of religion,don't think so. Wait I know freedom to behead anyone you belives offends you.Freedom to rape woman,yes.Freedom to kill the Pope,yes.And you call everybody else the terrorist.
Originally posted by crgintx
This illegal war and occupation was about securing Iraqi oil production for the oil companies so they can make their obscene profits and W paying back his corporate contributors to his (s)election campaigns with fat secret no-bid govt contracts.
Originally posted by stanstheman
Originally posted by crgintx
This illegal war and occupation was about securing Iraqi oil production for the oil companies so they can make their obscene profits and W paying back his corporate contributors to his (s)election campaigns with fat secret no-bid govt contracts.
Then you should stop using all petroleum products right now. That'll teach'em! Even if the war was for oil, all you people who think so should just stop using oil products. If there is no demand for oil then there will be no wars for oil.
As far as the OP? She's just a troll.
Originally posted by crgintx
[. We actually using less per capita now than we were in the '70's and sales in our country is slowing down while China and India's both are growing exponential and will actually excede our own consumption buy 2010. Again, I assert that we're not there for the benefit of American citizens but to ensure oil company profits.
Originally posted by XphilesPhan
You want to know what erks me? I get slapped witha 2000 point wrning for slightly politically charged post.....
yet someone can come on this board and rant about "american soldiers being cowards" blah, blah, blah.....thats cool right? :shk:
its nice opposition to certain views are so embraced here at ATS....rme....
Originally posted by pugachev
Cowards? Yeah right. If the US would to choose so, it could annihilate the middle east entirely with no problem. Difference is, we care for civlians non like this moron Syrian Sister and her facist friends in Iraq.
Hey, I got a better website for you. Its www.thereligionofpeace.com
[edit on 9/28/06 by pugachev]
[edit on 9/28/06 by pugachev]