the war in iraq

[skyblue]

truths and fiction

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/rayreynolds.htm

 

[Minor Axis]

I'm happy to know that bankrupting the U.S. for a trumped up war has resulted in some good somewhere in the world. Hey, why don't we all donate our savings accounts and 401k retirements for some other fictitious cause?

 

[edgray]

This is so funny it's made my day.

Truth! But his figure is low!
According to a UNICEF report at the end of 2003, more than 3 1/2 million children had been immunized.

The reason children weren't being immunised before the war is that UN sanctions was stopping medical supplies getting in. This caused masses of children to die. Gotta love UN sanctions.

All of the hospitals operating-Truth!
Because of disrepair and looting, it took a lot of work to get hospitals back up to speed but according to James Haverman, the Coalition Provisional Authority Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all 240 hospitals in Iraq as well as 2400 primary health care clinics were operating as of December, 2003.

The hospitals were working before the war though... admittedly under-supplied because of the sanctions I mentioned above.

So let me get this straight, the war is being justified because it has managed to get hospitals back that were only closed BECAUSE of the invasion?

 

[Accountable]

This is so funny it's made my day.



The reason children weren't being immunised before the war is that UN sanctions was stopping medical supplies getting in. This caused masses of children to die. Gotta love UN sanctions.



The hospitals were working before the war though... admittedly under-supplied because of the sanctions I mentioned above.

So let me get this straight, the war is being justified because it has managed to get hospitals back that were only closed BECAUSE of the invasion?

This is what gov't does, create a crisis so that they can take draconian action to fix it, then use that fix to justify making those draconian measures permanent, lest we slip back to the deplorable conditions the gov't had created in the first place.

 

[edgray]

This is what gov't does, create a crisis so that they can take draconian action to fix it, then use that fix to justify making those draconian measures permanent, lest we slip back to the deplorable conditions the gov't had created in the first place.

amen brother, amen.

 

[Minor Axis]

This is what gov't does, create a crisis so that they can take draconian action to fix it, then use that fix to justify making those draconian measures permanent, lest we slip back to the deplorable conditions the gov't had created in the first place.

Placing regulations to keep the the system in balance and prevent excesses is not draconian. The rules placed after the Great Depression, among others the Stengle Act dismantled under Clinton and a Republican Congress had been effective. The entire time forces were screaming about how much money they were prevented from making. From that point forward it only took 9 years for our financial system to just about implode. Freedom does not include the freedom to be greedy and stupid, not when we are talking about a countries economic system.

 

[Accountable]

So you equate UN sanctions against Iraq to separating investment banks and savings banks. Interesting. And these sanctions were balancing actions to prevent excesses? What excesses were they preventing?

 

[BornReady]

It's depressing that anyone is even trying to justify invading another country.