Everyone remembers the Injustice Iraq suffered due to secularist, capitalist, democratic and imperial adventures of the 2003 Iraq war.
The rate of approximately 500,000 deaths an average estimate, destruction of land, it's sovereignty, honour, confusion and pride being some of the effects of the invasion.
The deaths exceeded that which Britain suffered during World War 2 and
It would be accommodating to mention a quote from Stalin at this point, "One death is a loss, a million a statistic"
The guilty in this war in pioneering and instrumenting it could safely be said the
Politicians and Media . The Politicians following their "usual" snake like nature and the media chasing fame.
During this i was inclined to Noam Chomsky's philosophy that all governments are the root of Evil.
But what has been forgotten? The devastation and injustice of the UN (U.S. sponsored) sanctions on
Iraq during the Sadam era of the 1990's. The effects of these sanctions was probably the most cruel inflicted on a race by another set of oppressors and of any nation who supported the sanctions. Of those Politicians, Ambassadors who all wanted to
enter the elite social circle advancing their credibility and status among the Veto powering ones. Interestingly, John Pilger interviewed and documented one of the heads of the sanctions committee on why he resigned due to the implementation of the sanctions [1].
What is appalling is that no matter of any compliance with the UN, the British and U.S. policy over the sanctions
would not of been lifted "For as long as he was in Power" through the Power of the Veto and other means [*]
After a country which had by then suffered a devastating ten year war with Iran was crippled with an inefficient and dictatorial
regime, the injustice of these sanctions must be known. It is often commented that sanctions often hit the people, rather than the regime , was this the case
with these sanctions ? Surely the effect of one of the most intense sanctions every to be placed on a country was applied to Iraq and with the after effects of War and depleted Uranium, an impoverished state, was this justice of the politicians ? and Governments ?
and yet i find that the effects of these sanctions are hidden from the masses, by the same people "Media" who glamorized/spearheaded in getting the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 off to a start.
Estimates of excess deaths during sanctions vary depending on the source due to differences in methodologies and specific time-frames covered. Some estimates are as follows [2]:
Unicef: 500,000 children (including sanctions, collateral effects of war).
"[As of 1999] [c]hildren under 5 years of age are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago."
Former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq Denis Halliday: "Two hundred thirty-nine thousand children 5 years old and under" as of 1998.
"probably ... 170,000 children", Project on Defense Alternatives, "The Wages of War", 20. October 2003
350,000 excess deaths among children "even using conservative estimates", Slate Explained, "Are 1 Million Children Dying in Iraq?", 9. October 2001.
Economist Michael Spagat: "very likely to be [less than] than half a million children." He claims that these estimates are unable to
isolate the effects of sanctions alone due to the lack of "anything resembling a controlled experiment".
"Richard Garfield, a Columbia University nursing professor ... cited the figures 345,000-530,000 for the entire 1990-2002 period" for sanctions-related excess deaths.[46]
Zaidi, S. and Fawzi, M. C. S., The Lancet (1995, estimate withdrawn in 1997):567,000 children.
Editor (then "associate editor and media columnist") Matt Welch,[47] Reason Magazine, 2002: "It seems awfully hard not to conclude that the embargo on Iraq has ... contributed to more than 100,000
deaths since 1990."
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark: 1.5 million (includes sanctions, bombs and other weapons, depleted uranium poisoning).[48]
Iraqi Baathist government: 1.5 million.
Iraqi Cultural Minister Hammadi: 1.7 million (includes sanctions, bombs and other weapons, depleted uranium poisoning)
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
[2] Wikepedia iraq sanctions
[*] Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit, Page 12
The rate of approximately 500,000 deaths an average estimate, destruction of land, it's sovereignty, honour, confusion and pride being some of the effects of the invasion.
The deaths exceeded that which Britain suffered during World War 2 and
It would be accommodating to mention a quote from Stalin at this point, "One death is a loss, a million a statistic"
The guilty in this war in pioneering and instrumenting it could safely be said the
Politicians and Media . The Politicians following their "usual" snake like nature and the media chasing fame.
During this i was inclined to Noam Chomsky's philosophy that all governments are the root of Evil.
But what has been forgotten? The devastation and injustice of the UN (U.S. sponsored) sanctions on
Iraq during the Sadam era of the 1990's. The effects of these sanctions was probably the most cruel inflicted on a race by another set of oppressors and of any nation who supported the sanctions. Of those Politicians, Ambassadors who all wanted to
enter the elite social circle advancing their credibility and status among the Veto powering ones. Interestingly, John Pilger interviewed and documented one of the heads of the sanctions committee on why he resigned due to the implementation of the sanctions [1].
What is appalling is that no matter of any compliance with the UN, the British and U.S. policy over the sanctions
would not of been lifted "For as long as he was in Power" through the Power of the Veto and other means [*]
After a country which had by then suffered a devastating ten year war with Iran was crippled with an inefficient and dictatorial
regime, the injustice of these sanctions must be known. It is often commented that sanctions often hit the people, rather than the regime , was this the case
with these sanctions ? Surely the effect of one of the most intense sanctions every to be placed on a country was applied to Iraq and with the after effects of War and depleted Uranium, an impoverished state, was this justice of the politicians ? and Governments ?
and yet i find that the effects of these sanctions are hidden from the masses, by the same people "Media" who glamorized/spearheaded in getting the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 off to a start.
Estimates of excess deaths during sanctions vary depending on the source due to differences in methodologies and specific time-frames covered. Some estimates are as follows [2]:
Unicef: 500,000 children (including sanctions, collateral effects of war).
"[As of 1999] [c]hildren under 5 years of age are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago."
Former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq Denis Halliday: "Two hundred thirty-nine thousand children 5 years old and under" as of 1998.
"probably ... 170,000 children", Project on Defense Alternatives, "The Wages of War", 20. October 2003
350,000 excess deaths among children "even using conservative estimates", Slate Explained, "Are 1 Million Children Dying in Iraq?", 9. October 2001.
Economist Michael Spagat: "very likely to be [less than] than half a million children." He claims that these estimates are unable to
isolate the effects of sanctions alone due to the lack of "anything resembling a controlled experiment".
"Richard Garfield, a Columbia University nursing professor ... cited the figures 345,000-530,000 for the entire 1990-2002 period" for sanctions-related excess deaths.[46]
Zaidi, S. and Fawzi, M. C. S., The Lancet (1995, estimate withdrawn in 1997):567,000 children.
Editor (then "associate editor and media columnist") Matt Welch,[47] Reason Magazine, 2002: "It seems awfully hard not to conclude that the embargo on Iraq has ... contributed to more than 100,000
deaths since 1990."
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark: 1.5 million (includes sanctions, bombs and other weapons, depleted uranium poisoning).[48]
Iraqi Baathist government: 1.5 million.
Iraqi Cultural Minister Hammadi: 1.7 million (includes sanctions, bombs and other weapons, depleted uranium poisoning)
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
[2] Wikepedia iraq sanctions
[*] Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit, Page 12
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