Basra, I think it's you who missed the point, and the Clinton administration didn't "accidentally" kill millions of Iraqi children; it was intentionally. They knew what the sanctions were doing, yet they pressed on it. At the pace suicide bombings are going on worldwide, it will not reach the number of the casualties of US sanctions for 200 years more to come. That's just sanctions, but there's also depleted uranium, which kills more Iraqis 100 times more than what suicide bombings kill annually. This is the latest article about depleted uranium:Basra- wrote:rabanam...so if clinton administration accidentally kills iraqi civilians does that make it right to kill fellow iraqis??I think u missed my point. My point was- why suicide bombers killing their own fellow iraqis??? 150 iraqis died, 24 being children. U and that dumb Queen arewello up there think i am argueing for the american soldiers--which i am--in a sense-- i am arguing for the sake of humanity. Iraqi and american soldier, to me they are the same. Humabeings. Any loss of their life is a tragedy! Fahamtu?
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10202009.htmlDead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are No Joke
Depleted Uranium Weapons
The horrors of the US Agent Orange campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors of the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it used much more extensively, and in more urban, populated areas, in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War.
Depleted uranium, despite it’s rather benign sounding name, is not depleted of radioactivity or toxicity. The term depleted refers to its being depleted of the U-235 isotope needed for fission reactions in nuclear reactors. The nuclear waster material from nuclear power plants, DU as it is known, is essentially composed of the uranium isotope U-238 as well as U-236 (a product of nuclear reactor fission, not found in nature), as well as other trace radioactive elements. It turns out to be an ideal metal for a number of weapons uses, and has been capitalized on by the Pentagon. 1.7 times heavier than lead, and much harder than steel, and with the added property of burning at a super-hot temperature, DU has proven to be an ideal penetrator for warheads that need to pierce thick armor or dense concrete bunkers made of reinforced concrete and steel. Accordingly it has found its way into 30 mm machine gun ammunition, especially that used by the A-10 Warthog ground-attack fighter planes used extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Kosovo). It is also the warhead of choice for Abrams tanks and is also reportedly used in GBU-28 and the later GBU-37 bunker buster bombs. DU is also used as ballast in cruise missiles, and thus burns up when they detonate their conventional explosives. Some cruise missiles are also designed to hit hardened targets and reportedly feature DU warheads, as does the AGM-130 air-to-ground missile, which carries a one-ton penetrating warhead.
While the Pentagon has continued to claim, against all scientific evidence, there is no hazard posed by depleted uranium, US troops in Iraq have reportedly been instructed to avoid any sites where these weapons have been used—destroyed Iraqi tanks, exploded bunkers, etc. Suspiciously, international health officials have been prevented from doing medical studies of DU sites. A series of articles several years ago by the Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html) described how reporters from that newspaper had visited such sites with Geiger-counters and had found them to be extremely “hot” with radioactivity. The big danger with DU is not as a metal, but after it has exploded and burned, when the particles of uranium oxide, which are just as radioactive as the pure isotopes, can be inhaled or injested. Even the smallest particle of uranium is both deadly poisonous as a chemical, and can cause cancer.
There are reports of a dramatic increase in the incidence of deformed babies being born in the city of Fallujah, where DU weapons were in wide use during the November 2004 assault on that city by US Marines.
But the real impact of the first heavy use of depleted uranium weaponry in populous urban environments will come over the years, as the toxic legacy of this latest American war crime begins to show up in rising numbers of cancers, birth defects and other genetic disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So Basra, you're outraged by suicide bombings that cause a few/several tens casualties when you watch the breaking news of CNN, Fox News and other channels, but you're heartless to millions who have died and continue to die from sanctions and depleted uranium. Not to mention, you're also heartless to what America's 1000/2000 lbs aerial bombs cause; it pulverizes entire families along with their houses, farms, animals, etc-- leaving no trace, like they didn't exist. Lastly, there was no suicide bombings (not even heard of), no Al-Qaeda or "terrorism" in Iraq before your president decided to invade and occupy a country that didn't harm America nor had anything to do with 911. So, the next time you watch CNN, Fox News or other channels, remember the other casualties, and let your heart feel something for them.
it seems our brains is not compatible with each other. I am argueing oranges and u r argueing apples. 
Let agree to disagree. 
U just want the arguements to continue, so u may sit there silently and read enjoyably. No thank you. And i did not delflate rabanam's efforts- i am sure i appreciate his enthusiasm, but he failed to get my point. All the quoted articles and musings will not suffice if the point is not driven. I merely and cordially seized what would have been an endless much ado about nothing. 
