What is Babies For Oil?
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If Americans could fathom the reality that they have killed 1 million Iraqis since 1990, maybe "babies for oil" might not seem like a "liberal" anti-Bush statement. It is in fact the reality of US foreign policy that no one wants to admit to.
Number of Iraqi children who have died as a direct result of US/UN sanctions according to UNICEF: 500,000
Number of barrels of oil in Iraq's proven reserves: 112,000,000,000
Ranking of Iraq among countries with proven reserves of oil: 2
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Of course, oil for food scandal shreds all this hogwash. Oil for palaces, that's better.
oil for palaces, that would be a much better term to use.
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