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.
As far as Wikipedia goes: This is a self-attributing operation. What does this mean? That it is not completely credible as a source, given that the fact checking can be quite suspect at times. There have been numerous articles written about this, you might want to read a few. Throwing a handful of “facts” from Wikipedia at something and calling it an argument, well…
Lastly, what about Clinton’s intelligence practices? Rendition, NSA eavesdropping, and the failure of his counterintelligence program to sniff out al Qaeda among them. Any thoughts there?
