[Peace-discuss] Eight years too late...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes interviewing Clinton Secretary of State 
  Albright in 1996: "We have heard that half a million children have 
died [from the US-administered sanctions on Iraq]. I mean, that's more 
children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think 
the price is worth it."

Successive UN administrators resigned, calling the US program "genocidal."

It was one of three motives put forward by Osama bin Laden for what he 
saw as the counter-attack of September 11, 2001.  (The other two were 
the suppression of the Palestinians and US military investment of Saudi 
Arabia). --CGE

Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Isolated stats don't begin to tell the whole picture, Carl. You surely 
> cannot mean that Clinton was nearly as dreadful and destructive as Bush, 
> nor that Gore would have been???
>  --Jenifer
> 
> */"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     The Clinton administration is probably still responsible for more
>     dead Iraqis than the Bush administration -- by sanctions and air
>     attacks. And they showed themselves perfectly prepared to launch an
>     illegal war to ensure the neoliberal order in the "greater Middle
>     East" -- the attack on Serbia that Gore (and Hillary) supported. --CGE
> 
>     ---- Original message ----
>      >Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:54:48 -0800 (PST)
>      >From: Jenifer Cartwright
>      >Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Eight years too late...
>      >To: "C. G. Estabrook"
>      >Cc: Peace-discuss List
>      >
>      > Y're saying Iraq/restructuring the middle-east was
>      > in Gore's crosshairs from the git go?? If so, pls
>      > include a link to enlighten me.
>      > --Jenifer
>      >
>      > "C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>      >
>      > Oh, come on. Anyone who thinks everything would
>      > have been OK if only a
>      > "good guy" had become president in 2000 has
>      > forgotten the (first and one
>      > hopes only) Clinton administration and should read
>      > Alexander Cockburn
>      > and Jeffrey St. Clair's book, Al Gore: A User's
>      > Manual (Verso, 2000).
>      > The neocons' original focus was the Clinton
>      > administration, and Gore was
>      > a hawk within it. --CGE
>      >
>      > Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>      > > Isn't it too bad it took Ralph Nader eight years
>      > to notice the
>      > > significant difference between "the lesser of
>      > two evils" and (finally)
>      > > endorse a Democratic candidate (Edwards) when he
>      > could have saved the
>      > > world the EXTREME evil of the Bush regime by
>      > endorsing Gore, or at least
>      > > not running because there was "no difference"
>      > between the two candidates???
>      > > --Jenifer
>      >
>      >
>      >
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