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How can they overlook these things?
The same way that they have been trained to ignore a half million dead children from the Iraq sanctions before the war. No one who studies the event honestly denys the general range of the numbers or the reality of the event --but the 25%. And those who choose not to hear. Like- the rest of us.

Osama Bin Laden has not forgotten. Read his words. If you can find them.

How can they overlook this?
The same way that the Lancet study recording state-of-the-art casualty data suggesting that three quarters of a million  dead people were a part of the human price (to date)for our oil theft, can be disappeared.
How can we overlook a dead sparrow - on the killing fields of a million plus people?

Easy.

 

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Fri Nov 16th, 2007 at 12:53:24 PM EST
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"We Think the Price Is Worth It"

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Nov 16th, 2007 at 01:10:58 PM EST
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The flight path zig-zags over the world. Read your Weber. Take cover. Practice your primary school drills or live free. For the "American" value system, ego it "values voters," recognize naught but the market price of things, extrinsic or fungible terms of exchange that express the living and the dead. Every thing in "America" is inanimate and identified by numberable properties which necessarily reveal functional differences in between one thing and an other. If you try, I dare you to find any US wonk or wag aside from the religious who holds human being unique and infinite in their respect. "Americans" don't do intimacy. They don't demonstrate "amorous feelings" for their figures. Doing so would not be "professional." And not being "professional" guarantees certain death.



Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Nov 18th, 2007 at 05:38:51 PM EST
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