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Originally posted by Max5: ↑

She didn't say "yes" and you're obviously intent on painting a particular picture which suits you and your quite obviously one sided view of the world.
But facts matter. 500,000 children did not die as a result of the sanctions and Albright acknowledged quite clearly her response to the loaded question-based on Saddam propaganda-was insensitive and a mistake.

Have you never made any mistakes and said things you regretted and acknowledged later were mistakes ?

On May 12, 1996, Madeleine Albright (then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) appeared on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl (referring to the 1995 FAO study[9]) asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it." Albright wrote later that Saddam Hussein, not the sanctions, was to blame. She criticized Stahl's segment as "amount[ing] to Iraqi propaganda"; said that her question was a loaded question;[64][65] wrote "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean";[66] and regretted coming "across as cold-blooded and cruel".[67] The segment won an Emmy Award.[9][68] Albright's "non-denial" was taken by sanctions opponents as confirmation of a high number of sanctions related casualties.[58][64]
"In fact, the producers of 60 Minutes were duped. Subsequent research has shown that Iraqi propagandists deceived international observers ... Per a 2017 article in the British Medical Journal of Global Health, the data 'were rigged to show a huge and sustained—and largely non-existent—rise in child mortality ... to heighten international concern and so get the international sanctions ended.' ... This is not to deny that UN sanctions contributed to hardships in Iraq or to say that my answer to Stahl's question wasn't a mistake. They did, and it was. ... U.S. policy throughout the 1990s was to prevent Iraq from reconstituting its most dangerous weapons programs. Short of another war, UN sanctions were the best means for doing so."[69]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_against_IraqThe fact you feel the need to drag up stuff from almost 3 decades ago and not give the full story over it is telling.

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She said "we think the price is worth it". You cant escape that. When you say its worth it you are saying it was the right thing to do and you would do it again. I dont care what she said afterwards to cover up her earlier admission. If you watch the interview she clearly gave the matter some thought and then told us it was worth it. Because when America decides its OK to kill babies and children then the world should accept that its OK to kill babies and children; For "freedom" and "democracy" and "our values" of course.I mean the USA doesn't just kill babies and children on a whim. They do it for good reasons
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