Thank you, Dean. I knew some of that information, but some was new to me.
I appreciate your comments.
Tina
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tina posted:
>
> "I have added another exhibit to the Social Documentary site:
> http://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Tina_Manley/3389
> I would appreciate your viewing and commenting when you get a chance."
>
> In trying to make some sense of what's going on in the world, I've
> been going through a number of books lately. I just finished "What
> Terrorists Want" (Random House, 2006) by Louise Richardson. I'd highly
> recommend it. Here are some quotes:
> "A UNICEF report issued in 1999 indicated that 500,000 children under
> the age of five died between 1991 and 1998 in Iraq due largely to the
> impact of the [UN] sanctions." (Page 219)
> "Two successive UN officials in charge of the program resigned to
> protest the humanitarian catastrophe over which they were presiding."
> (Page 219)
> "Haliday [one of the officials who resigned] went on to describe the
> complete breakdown in civil society in Iraq as a result of the privations
> imposed by sanctions, and, remarking on the growth of fundamentalist
> Islamic thinking, he declared, in 1998, 'We are pushing people to take
> extreme positions.' " (Page 220)
> From Osama bin Laden, August, 1996, "More than 600,000 Iraqi children
> have died due to lack of food and medicine and as a result of the
> unjustifiable aggression [sanctions] imposed on Iraq and its nation."
> (Page 92) He wanted revenge.
> The book is a very enlightening and prophetic, if disturbing, read.
> Tina: Many thanks for posting the photos from your stay in Iraq.
> Many were disturbing. I was moved by what you were able to do.
> Dean
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