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DECEMBER 17, 2012
America's Selective Grief
Remember All the Children, Mr. President
by BILL QUIGLEY
Remember the 20 children who died in Newton Connecticut.
Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli
bombardments.
Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in
Pakistan since 2006.
Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 months of
this year.
Remember the 400 other children in the US under the age of 15 who die
from gunshot wounds each year.
Remember the 921 children killed by US air strikes against insurgents in
Iraq.
Remember the 1,770 US children who die each year from child abuse and
maltreatment.
Remember the 16,000 children who die each day around the world from
hunger.
These tragedies must end.
Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola
University New Orleans and Associate Director of the Center for
and how many died during Bush's Sanctions on Iraq. thousands of kids?
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I see the New Jersey bunch are experiencing the same type help the
Katrina victims got not to leave out the tsunami victims still
starving and living in tents because the food they were sent is
rotting in the concieled packages protected by government troops.
and Iraqi children?
What Sanctions' effects had on Iraqi Children
High rates of malnutrition, lack of medical supplies, and diseases from
lack of clean water were reported during sanctions.[23]
Researcher Richard Garfield estimated that "a minimum of 100,000 and a
more likely estimate of 227,000 excess deaths among young children from
August 1991 through March 1998" from all causes including sanctions.[25]
Other estimates have put the number at 170,000 children.[12][26][27]
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions#Estimates_of_deaths_during_sa
nctions
In the United States, legal enforcement was handled by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).[17] For example, in 2005 OFAC fined
Voices in the Wilderness $20,000 for gifting medicine and other
humanitarian supplies to Iraqis.[21] In a similar case, OFAC is still
attempting to collect (as of 2011) a $10,000 fine, plus interest,
against Bert Sacks for bringing medicine to residents of Basra.
Now you know why "they" hate the U.$.
We killed to grab their Oil.
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