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"Thus, when he told an audience in Australia that "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims," he was invoking a shibboleth of the anti-Iraq-War left. In his pacific voice, he referred to how "US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children."
Thus, he conveniently forgot (as those who use this line of argument always do), that the sanctions resulted from a unanimous UN Security Council vote and were placed on Iraq in the 1990s as a way of avoiding military action after Saddam Hussein violated the terms under which he was allowed to remain in power after the 1991 Gulf War."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/blaming_america_Jx2A62dOchmJK8F9qGJfEJ
Blaming America
What liberals love about Imam Rauf
John Podhoretz
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:09 AM, August 27, 2010
Posted: 12:40 AM, August 27, 2010
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