500,000 Dead Kids in Iraq- "We Think The Price Is Worth It."

Damn those callous Republicans! Who in the hell do they think they are anyway? Oh! Wait! They're Democrats!
From James Taranto's Best of the Web Today:

Although the (Clinton) administration did not take action to remove Saddam Hussein from power, it did bomb the country and support strict U.N. sanctions.

In 1996, as the hard-left radio show "Democracy Now!" recounted some years later, (Madeleine) Albright, then ambassador to the U.N., gave an interview to CBS's "60 Minutes":

Correspondent Leslie Stahl said to Albright,

"We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that"s more children than died in Hiroshima. And--and you know, is the price worth it?"

Madeline Albright replied

"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."

That the sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children was almost certainly a pro-Saddam canard. But Albright did not dispute the premise. Instead, she defended (it) as "worth it"...

The next time you hear how callous and heartless the Bush administration is for what's happening in Darfur, or what's not happening in Myanmar, or the deaths of four thousand American servicemen, think of what that class act Madeleine Albright and the Clinton administration were willing to do...

"for the children"!

Cross Posted at Say Anything