Also, the fact they don't say what life expectancy was under Saddam means it had to have been like 71.4 or something. Fun little opinion writer trick there.
Gulf War in the early 90s, as soon as the war started we destroyed a bunch of critical civilian infrastructure that we knew they'd need imports to fix and then sanctioned them afterward to prevent them from acquiring the goods needed for repairs.
500,000 kids died as a result in the years between the two wars. Madeleine Albright said it was worth it. :amerikkka:
In 2003 I knew one person who had a cell phone.
Also, the fact they don't say what life expectancy was under Saddam means it had to have been like 71.4 or something. Fun little opinion writer trick there.
Hadn't we already bombed them once by 2001? Probably gonna affect that metric a little
Gulf War in the early 90s, as soon as the war started we destroyed a bunch of critical civilian infrastructure that we knew they'd need imports to fix and then sanctioned them afterward to prevent them from acquiring the goods needed for repairs.
500,000 kids died as a result in the years between the two wars. Madeleine Albright said it was worth it. :amerikkka:
EDIT: For more, listen to s1 of Blowback