The Iraq Invasion of 2003

The Iraq Invasion of 2003


Everyone remembers the Injustice Iraq has suffered due to secularist, capatilist and imperial adventures..

The rate of aproximately 500,000 deaths , at a an average estimate, destruction of the land and it's sovereignty, honour and
pride, which are some of the hidden losers of the invasion

The deaths exceeeded that of Britain suffered during World War 2.
It would be accomodating 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 the war would safe to be said to be the
Politicians and Media . The Politicians just following their "usual" snake like nature and the media just chasing fame.
During this was i tended to Noam Chomsky's philosohy that all governments are the root of Evil.

What is appaling is that no matter of any compliance with the UN on weapons inspections, Britains and the US 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 [1]

Whilst it is not always good to dwell on the past, I still feel that the Media
elludes a self rightrous character in the "Us and Them Model"

But what has been forgotten? The devastation and injustice what i feel much more a devastation was the UN sanctions on
Iraq during the Sadam era. The effects of these sanctions was propably the most Cruel inflicted on a race by another set
of opressors, that of the collective of any nation who supported the sanctions. Again, Politicians, Ambassadors who all want to
enter the elite social circle advancing their credibility and status amongst the Veto powering ones. John Pilger [1] interviewed
and documented one of the heads of the sanctions committee on why he resigned due to the implementation of the sanctions.

After a country which suffered a devastatiing war with Iran was crippled after with an inefficient and dictatatroial
regime, the injustice of these sanctions must be known. It is often commented that sanctions often hit the people, rather tha nthe regime , was this the case
with these sanctions ? surely the efect of one of the most intense sanctions every to be placed on a country was applied to Iraq and to not effect
the people combined with after effects of War and depleted Uranim with 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, hidden by the same people "Media" who were the speareads in getting the
Invastion of Iraq in 2003 off.

Estimates of excess deaths during sanctions vary depending on the source. The estimates vary due to differences in methodologies, and specific time-frames covered.[39] A short listing of estimates follows:
Unicef: 500,000 children (including sanctions, collateral effects of war). [2]

"[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 Explainer, "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"[45] 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."[29][46]

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.[29]

Iraqi Cultural Minister Hammadi: 1.7 million (includes sanctions, bombs and other weapons, depleted uranium poisoning)[50

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
[2] Wikepedia iraq sanctions
[*] Mark Curtis, Web of Deceit, Page 12