US Sanctions Killed Millions Of Iraqis!

And as our colonial occupation continues, the evidence continues to pour out about how brutal and oppressive our sanctions regime really was. This article proves that the only "regime change" needed was in our sanctions!

One of the grandest of these palaces was built in 1994, when ordinary Iraqis were suffering under a suffocating United Nations (news - web sites) sanctions regime. Malnutrition rates for Iraqi children soared, but Saddam's building spree continued apace. Adding insult to injury, this palace, it seems, was never used. Chinese rosewood cabinets inlaid with mother-of-pearl hold elegant china teacups and crystal wineglasses--all still wrapped in their original plastic. Still, the palace chef was under orders to prepare three meals a day--just in case the president ever decided to drop by.

The oppression we imposed on Iraq is unacceptable. He had to use mother-of-pearl on his Chinese rosewood cabinets? Don't we understand that any third world dictator or pimp worth his salt has gold inlay? And on top of that, our evil sanctions forced him to never be able to visit this particular palace, thereby forcing him to waste all that food. Didn’t we understand that by forcing him to have each palace prepare three meals a day for him we were starving ordinary Iraqis?

How could we subject Saddam and his family to this torture? It was almost inhuman. I mean the only way it could get worse would be to find out that they were forced to decorate these palaces with velvet porn paintings (soft porn?):

Pictures (one of them velvet) of naked women with bouffant hairdos and poised like 1950s centerfolds adorn the walls.

Oh.

Well it's not like they'll ever find any evidence of Saddam claiming a false love for the people of Iraq.

Without the slightest hint of irony, an engraving inside Saddam's Republican Palace in Baghdad reads, "This palace is for the people of Iraq."

Forget it.