not.my.president.
speaking of not.my.president - i've been half looking at australia's own littlehitler john howard. it turns out that one of the most significant oil-4-food sanction busters was none other than an australian government-owned business called the Australian Wheat Board which paid something like $300m under the table to saddam.
withusoragainstus.
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"Health expert Dr. Salman Rawaf, taking into account the WFP/FAO report, and his own findings from various medical organisations, described Iraq as ‘…18.8 million people in a refugee camp..’ Other observers went further: ‘A concentration camp with a population of 18 million, one third of which are children – of whom at least 100,000 are now dead, not from war but from hunger.’" (>>)
These were the results of the Iraq economic sanctions.
If Bush, Blair or Howard tried to starve 100,000 of their own children they would be driven from office in a heart beat.
I'm an aussie. My excuse-for-a-prime-minister Howard allows other people's children to die needlessly from his policies with barely a backward glance.
These are crimes against humanity.
But don't expect the Australian press to acknowledge this
- or even publish criticisms along these lines.
Nothing must be allowed to disturb public sentiment and bigotry.
This is what we have come to.
Obscene.
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