That was Saddam's choice he could have fed his people but instead chose to continue the lifestyle of the ruling party.
Nope. The sanctions were designed to hurt the Iraqi people, to undermine support for the Saddam regime. It was therefore in the US'S interests to hurt the Iraqi people, while it was in Saddam's to feed them and protect them.
Cui bono? Clearly provides the answer. Those Iraqis starved because the US wanted them to starve, and took actions to starve them.
You know that the sanctions came after he invaded his neighbor right?
Yes, and after we ejected the Iraqi army from Kuwait, and largely destroyed it as an effective fighting force.
So the goals of the sanctions were not to force Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait. Not to destroy his capability to wage war. What were they? To go further and actually bring down his government. To install in its place a US client, like the House of Saud.
PRESIDENT CLINTON:
A well known liar.
and sticking it to his own children.
Right. He's undermining his regime himself. Hilarious what brainwashed people will believe. we imposed the sanctions, but the only reason why they're there and people are starving is because he won't comply with our perfectly legitimate and reasonable demands. Same logic, incidentally, that defenders of invasions use to shift blame to the victim. We wouldn't have had to kill them if they'd complied with our perfectly legitimate and reasonable demands and submitted!
Are you a fucking idiot
Are you a brainwashed "We're the good guys!" US chauvinist? Cause racism is closely related to that.
war is a bit more destructive that economic sanctions?
And can you not see you're not anti-war? You're actually a pro-war imperialist, who just happens to have a difference of opinions with the Bushites on how precisely to prosecute the war. Like a German Wehrmacht general who in 1941 argues they should take another crack at England, rather than invading Russia.
And race has nothing to do with what is going on in Iraq
I didn't say it did. I just asked why you focus on a few thousand US dead, rather than the couple million Iraqi dead. Including 500,000 children, just during the Clinton years.
Documented civilian deaths
That's why they call US MSM propaganda. Brainwashing, sheeple control apparatus. Apply Lancet methodology. And do not use Clinton years as the baseline. That's bullshit. That was a state of economic siege, a state of war too.