It's like they're suing Mother Teresa.
Voices in the Wilderness delivered food and medicine to Iraqi civilians who were dying because of sanctions. In return for their generosity, bravery, and dedication to humanity, the U.S. government slaps them with a $20,000 fine.
Is this how we win hearts and minds?
From The NewStandard:
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Standing by earlier assertions, a humanitarian organization that aided several Americans’ travel to Iraq and facilitated the distribution of medical supplies to Iraqi civilians announced that it has no intention to pay a $20,000 fine levied by the Treasury Department and upheld by a federal judge last week.
Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based anti-war organization that, since 1996, had been fighting the former economic sanctions against Iraq, on Sunday criticized US Federal District Judge John Bates’s finding that the group is legally required to pay the $20,000 Treasury-imposed fine.
"Judge Bates agrees that it was lawful and proper for the US government to deny needed drugs and medical supplies to Iraq’s most vulnerable citizens, despite the evidence that several hundred thousand innocent children were dying because of brutal economic sanctions," the group said.
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