Friday, October 08, 2004
"Sanctions worked." NYTimes
Did I just hear right? Did I just read a comment from the Times -story here - talking about the oil for foot sanctions which was a big fat cash cow that corrupted people all over the world at the expense of the Iraqi people as something that worked?
Sanctions worked - but the blood of those killed by Saddam's secret police cries out for vengeance.
Sanctions worked - but the destruction of faith between allies when those allies were working behind each other's backs is something that will effect a generation.
Sanctions worked - but people whose lives were destroyed by those sanctions, from the lost earnings, the lack of goods, the fear they lived under, the people they weeped over so that businessmen could get rich on their misery cries out to heaven.
Sanctions worked - while doing more to destroy trust and belief and snuffing out hope more than any thing I can remember since WWII.
Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando iudex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!
Sanctions worked - but the blood of those killed by Saddam's secret police cries out for vengeance.
Sanctions worked - but the destruction of faith between allies when those allies were working behind each other's backs is something that will effect a generation.
Sanctions worked - but people whose lives were destroyed by those sanctions, from the lost earnings, the lack of goods, the fear they lived under, the people they weeped over so that businessmen could get rich on their misery cries out to heaven.
Sanctions worked - while doing more to destroy trust and belief and snuffing out hope more than any thing I can remember since WWII.
Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando iudex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!
# posted by Knitting a Conundrum @ 2:52 PM 
