Iraq Propaganda

No, not WMD, although that was blatant propaganda.

This is about the 500,000 or more children that were supposed to have died because of UN sanctions on Iraq and Saddam Hussein's brutality.

According to Maurice Murad, a former CBS news producer, there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein starved his people under UN sanctions and no evidence that 500,000 children died.

His account is chronicled in "Into the Buzzsaw". He visited Iraq in 1995 and saw no evidence of any food shortages or of kids dying of malnutrition.

Since the US has used the idea that Saddam Hussein was mistreating his people as an excuse for war, and anti-globalists have argued that the US/UN is terrible for starving kids, it is important to note that this argument is simply a gross distortion and thus propaganda.

This is not to say Saddam Hussein is completely blameless. He probably brought on some of the idea that he had to starve his people because of the sanctions to suit his own agenda. But the main point is that Saddam Hussein was NEVER as bad as the US made him out to be, even if Saddam played up the image that he was a scary, brutal, irrational dictator himself, to some degree.