[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]justme: Here we go again, huh?
1. I said Clinton enforced the sanctions, and you confirmed this. Again, I never said Clinton instituted them, I simply said he enforced them.
2. The 500,000 number has been used by International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and UN Council for Human Rights. The number may be false, as it is an estimate. However, given that all three of those bodies have cited it at length does give it some credence. And, yes, this happened on Clinton’s watch, so it is directly attributable to him.
3. Raw tonnage of bombs dropped did exceed WWII. I was not using the Counterpunch article regarding the number, I simply said that the article spoke about the tonnage dropped under Clinton was the heaviest since the Vietnam War. If you do a little research (and you seem to think Wikipedia is the end all be all, you can easily verify this), you will find that the US bombing campaign in Vietnam absolutely dwarfed the bombing campaign over Germany during WWII. In point of fact, you can check the raw tonnage of bombs dropped during Operation Linebacker II in 1972 (the Hanoi and Haiphong Harbor campaign) and compare that to ALL the bombs dropped during WWII. So, if Clinton dropped more raw tonnage since the Vietnam War, and the Vietnam War exceeded WWII by a huge margin, well, quad erat demonstratum Bunkie.
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1. Allan originally said: Operation Desert Fox was part of an on-going Clinton Administration program that included sanctions, enforcement of the No-Fly Zone, as well as direct military intervention in Iraq.
Now read what you said: “an on-going Clinton Administration program that included sanctions,” That sure as hells sounds like you are saying that CLintin instituted the sanctions, does it not. Again, it was a UN sanction.
2. Allan originally said:Clinton’s sanctions were estimated to have killed 500,000 according to Amnesty International.
Again, you are lying. They were NOT Clinton’s sanctions. They were enacted by UN and Bush1. That the UN resolution was still in effect under Clinton is not relevant.
And the estimated death toll of sanctions is in dispute.
3. Allan said: So, if Clinton dropped more raw tonnage since the Vietnam War, and the Vietnam War exceeded WWII by a huge margin, well, quad erat demonstratum Bunkie.
Allan, you need to read properly. Even your own chosen source did not say what you claim above. Your own source said “He subjected Iraq (with British help) to the longest sustained bombing campaign since Vietnam”. You have to understand that “longest sutained since” or even “largest sustained since” (your own source did not even use that expression, but ;et us say it is true for the sake of argument) does not mean “larger than”. It would just mean that it was larger than any OTHER bombing campaign that took place after the Vietnam war. And it sure as hell does not make it bigger than Vietnam, nor WW2 bombing tonnage. The logic of you statements is just complwtely wrong.
In summary:
Allan, you can’t even twist your own hand-picked sources into agreeing with you. You need to stop.
And you need to accept that your contorted argument that Obama is worse than McCain because of Obama’s former pastor and a long list of irrelevant things that Clinton DID NOT do is just totally bogus. QED.
