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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
> news:GK3Mz9.90A@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > I hope it is a gross exaggeration, but I heard last night that the • sanctions
> > > in Iraq had killed 500,000 in total.
> >
> > Both you and Dan have bandied this number about before. Here's a piece • that
> > tries to debunk it. It is a good piece for several other reasons, IMHO.
> >
> > Is the author correct that this statistic is a sham?
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> http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006068940062214&rtmo=qKxJMMX9&atmo=ggg
> ggggK&pg=/01/9/23/dl01.html
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> Daily Telegraph = Right Wing Rag. I prefer independent news:
> http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_35000/35065.stm
Great. Thanks for sharing your preferences. I prefer you not post here at
all, since you have nothing to contribute. Doubt I'll get my wish though.
Do you have any fact based debunking or is your entire critique a slur of
the source with nothing else behind it?
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| (...) ...and you have so much opinion to contribute. I note you have started *16* threads in this group over the last two weeks or so. (...) Read the page. Follow the link to UNICEF. Find this: ==+== According to a report in 1999 by the United (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) ...and from Saturday's Guardian: ==+== In 1996, Madeleine Albright, then the US secretary of state, was asked on national television what she felt about the fact that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of US economic sanctions. She (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GK3Mz9.90A@lugnet.com... (...) sanctions (...) that (...) (URL) Telegraph = Right Wing Rag. I prefer independent news: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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