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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