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Wierdo · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 184

DevilsAdvocate wrote:

Why start counting only in 2003 ? I bet Clinton murdered as many Iraqi's as Bush did, almost certainly many more innocent children. 500,000 children below age 5 died because of the UN embargo between the wars. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND. That is all of the children of New York. Every single one of them killed.

For 12 years of "peace" Iraq was bombed almost every single day, killing countless civilians and littering the country with poisonous and cancerous depleted uranium. The British alone during that time dropped around 1000 tons of bombs on Iraq, "For their protection".

Dear Iraqi's, we bomb and starve your children, but it is for your security, freedom and prosperity.. honestly. We are the good guys!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,232986,00.html

As the historian in P4Man's recent link said, this can be termed "American imperialism" and thus it doesn't matter who's in charge, the ultimate goal is to expand or maintain an empire. Clinton was simply being smart about it, extending things by proxy. Bush was just stupid about it and did it all in the open, which caused allot of friction and was a hard sell in rational circles.

Our foreign policy is simply a form of imperialism, and Iraq is unfortunately the modern day India.