In the rathouse 'o interpretation (WAS Re: politics andreligion...)

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Sat Feb 22 12:21:06 CST 2003


> I think there's been 500,000 lost to the sanctions too. If we take out
> Saddam we might ultimately be saving lives.  A million dead vs. how many
> killed in the course of the war? Some bombed and shot, some starved, some
> sick from the dirty water, cancer from the  DU, plus all the foreign troops
> cancer and gulf war syndrome--I don't know. It could add up to a million in
> the end. So maybe it's six of one and half dozen of the other. The only
> meaningful difference I can see is the level to which I partake. It's one
> thing for Saddam to kill his people. There's not much I can do about that.
> But I'm damned if I sit back while my government kills his people.

Unjust sanctions, unjust war... same actor in both cases.

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