The amount was in excess of $900,000,000 Just shy of a billion.

"Mark Browne" wrote in message
news:8zwvc.33817$pt3.5356@attbi_s03...

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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How much of the Saddam death toll is the folks we left twist in the
wind
after they thought we would support them in thier uprising?

Quite a bit.

Further, how many Iraqi deaths were due to fallout from the brutal
embargo?

Oh, oh. Not so fast. Saddam managed to live in a state of unfettered
opulence
throughout the embargo. Remember when one of his sons loaded a 40'
trailer
with
$US and lit out for Iran as the invasion closed in on Baghdad? Even if
the
average
denomination was a $20, a trailer-full has got to be tens of millions.
That
money could have purchased a 20 pound bag of rice for every family in
Iraq,
every month, for one hell of a long time. But, it didn't.

Saddam was a *******. Any ruler who will live in luxury out of the
national
purse (rather than personal wealth) while kids are commonly dying from
starvation is a *******. No serious person will lament that he has been
removed- the legitimately debatable point is whether the end justified
the
means.

Whether the embargo was right, or not, is less important than the
established
fact Hussein did far less than he could or should have done to ease the
suffering of his people. A significant portion of the embargo deaths
*are*
his
fault.


This is one of the rare cases where somebody said something that changed
my
mind on a newsgroup.

Thanks.

Mark Browne