Ward Churchill's charges within his controversial essay has given me another reason to challenge what I hear him saying:
The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the rest have suffered – are still suffering – a combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated...
This is one of the 'reasons' he gives to rationalize the terrorists flying airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001...killing more than 3,000 innocent people...
The only problem is - if there were 500,000 kids lost - it has nothing to do with the United States.......
But, it has EVERYTHING to do with how Saddam Hussein and the U.N. ran the Oil for Food program....siphoning the funds off that were earmarked for the Iraqi people and using them for personal gain....
If those children died, it was not the fault of any American...it was the fault of their own dictator...and, by association, Kofi Annan, his son and everyone else that was involved in that abomination...
DR
