Tuesday, October 30, 2007

"Sanctions are an act of war."- Ron Paul

People just blindly accept that sanctions are great, because "it's better than going to war".

But the problem is, sanctions don't work, and like Ron Paul said, they are an act of war!

Did you know that we had sanctions in Iraq for 9 years from 1992-2001 where over 600,000 Iraqi's died directly because of these sanctions?
And after all that, we went to war with them anyway, and have killed hundreds of thousands more!

Sure, Saddam was a bad guy and guilty as charged of the crimes of killing over 100 of his own citizens.

But how are our sanctions going to help a situation like this?

It's the same thing in Iran. We are entangled in Iran deeply now, and have struck the first blow with these recent sanctions. How long can this last before we are in a full fledged war with Iran, while we continue to build Iraq and fight the taliban in Afganistan?

1 comment:

Phil Krone said...

I wonder why this has been ignored? Is there a U.S. Attorney General's opinion on this issue?