They Saved Our Lives





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They Saved Our Lives
Ahmed Al-Habbabi
There is an aspect to the infamous kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's
regime in return for sales of inexpensive oil that so few seem to click to
at all (...) How can the people continue to live under those unprecedented
sanctions and strictest embargo for 13 years if the government cannot get
some income to import and supply some of the basic requirements for the
said services and for its own machinery to keep ticking over at a minimum?
(...) Who had the welfare of the Iraqis! in mind? Those who devised the
sanctions and enforced them with the utmost cruelty? They are the
criminals, not those who paid, or even those who got paid. All those
involved in "kickbacks" for whatever personal reasons, shady or altruistic,
actually averted genocide and saved a people from impending extinction.
Kickbacks indeed. They saved our lives...

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