{"id":3239,"date":"2007-02-04T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/bert-sacks\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T18:31:17","slug":"bert-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/bert-sacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/goyette0116bertsacks.mp3\"><strong>Antiwar Radio: Bert Sacks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Retired engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/bertoniraq.blogspot.com\/\">Bert Sacks<\/a> discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/sacks01042007.html\">his case<\/a> before the U.S. Supreme Court: sticking up for innocent Iraqi kids killed by the UN\/U.S.\/UK blockade of 1990-2003, the different ways the law protects politicians for the mass murders they commit and the danger of dehumanizing even the worst people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/goyette0116bertsacks.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the first Gulf War in 1991 Bert Sacks read a <em>New York Times<\/em> front-page story about famine and epidemic in Iraq &#8220;unless massive life-supporting aid was given.&#8221; He read in that same story that &#8220;by making life uncomfortable for the Iraqi people [sanctions] will soon encourage them to remove President Saddam Hussein from power.&#8221; Sacks thought something was terribly wrong. When he read a 1992 <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> report that 46,900 Iraqi kids had died in just the first 8 months of 1991, he knew that something was terribly wrong. Since then he&#8217;s worked to educate about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiwar Radio: Bert Sacks Retired engineer Bert Sacks discusses his case before the U.S. Supreme Court: sticking up for innocent Iraqi kids killed by the UN\/U.S.\/UK blockade of 1990-2003, the different ways the law protects politicians for the mass murders they commit and the danger of dehumanizing even the worst people. MP3 here. After the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}