Re: Al-Qaeda targets Knock Airport

"Mick Tully" <mick.tully@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:vAlof.24$68.15@newsfe3-
win.ntli.net:

> Simple. I hate killing. Anything is better than that.

Even if we use the conservative(and more accurate) numbers on increased child
mortality under the UN sactions from 1991 to 2003, it is estimated that
30,000-40,000 children were dying each year as a result of the sanctions.
Now take the figures from Iraqi Body Count of 26-29,000 deaths as a result of
violence surrounding Operation Iraqi Freedom and annualize them to 10-12,000
per year. Which do you view as better? In the two and a half years since
the invasion 75-100,000 Iraqi children would have died from the continuation
of sanctions. Sometimes war, war is better than jaw, jaw. Sudan and Rwanda
are cases in point. Jaw, jaw saved no lives there.

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