You'd make a fantastic propagandist LoM. Trying to excuse her support and implementation of policies which apparently killed millions of people, including the aforementioned 500,000 Iraqi children, by talking about her childhood refugee status and her grandparents' fate at the hands of the Nazis is pure apologism. But, you know, she'd been through some hard times, bless her.
She was not in a position to say something that she would regret after becoming 'better advised' on it in later life. She was there, in the moment and she knew fine well what she was doing. It sounded like she fully believed that the world should bow to the rules set by the USA and its allies or face the consequences and that her actions were protecting the children of her nation whilst destroying those in other countries that didn't matter as much. When the UN's Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq calls their sanctions 'genocide' and resigns his post, I think that says it all. I wonder what your response would be if Putin said that the deaths of 500,000 Ukrainian children was 'worth it'?
It's worth reading the alternative views, of which there are many:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...she-really-was
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinio...bright-no-less
Originally Posted by Raymond Holt
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