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Re: Sanctions (was: Libertarian Propaganda)
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Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:02:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Marc Nelson, Jr. writes:
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> > So if trade is bad, then shouldn't the Iraqis be grateful that they are
> > sanctioned? Now they don't have to worry about American economic imperialists
> > exploiting their labor and natural resources. No greedy American business
> > ventures can make any economic gains by selling things to Iraq. Aren't they
> > better off?
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> Maybe I should explain the sanctions against Iraq better. It's not about
> trade with America, it's not about business with America, it's about
> starving and killing innocent men, women and children and destroying the
> infrastructure of Iraq. The sanctions are a ban against any nation trading
> or offering aid to Iraq. The sanctions are not particular to American trade
> or business with Iraq. The sanctions prevent Iraq from obtaining essential
> things from ANY nation-- items such as food, medicine, tires, machine parts
> and tools. The Iraqi people IN NO WAY are better off with the sanctions.
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> And I never said trade is bad.
I just read an interesting piece in The New Republic about the sanctions on
Iraq:
http://www.tnr.com/061801/rubin061801.html
Seems that the Iraqi govt. IS able to get food from other nations, but it
exports it to pay for luxuries for the party elite. It supports the case
that sanctions don't work at changing the behavior of a dictatorship, and
also shows that it is the Iraqi govt. that is responsible for the suffering
of its people, not the sanctions.
-Marc Nelson Jr.
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| (...) Seems so, according to that one report and I don't doubt for a minute that Saddam wouldn't take the money from the so-called "oil-for-food" program to build palaces and let Iraqis suffer. Even if this report were 100% true, it doesn't change (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Maybe I should explain the sanctions against Iraq better. It's not about trade with America, it's not about business with America, it's about starving and killing innocent men, women and children and destroying the infrastructure of Iraq. The (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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