In March 2009, Gideon Polya used the Just Foreign Policy estimate of 1.32 million Iraqi deaths post-March 2003 alone, a number considerably higher today. It's also well below his post-9/11 eight million "war on terror" total, mostly affecting women and children, aged five and younger, killed by war, diseases, and/or depravation, America's horrific ongoing genocidal legacy - air-brushed from history. Azzawi adds more:-- at least 4.5 internal or external refugees, many victimized by "militias and police raids and terrorist groups;"
-- death squads targeting "certain ethnic and sectarian groups" daily; and
-- in cities throughout Iraq, sieges cutting off "all life support aids on people, (affecting) Thousands of children, women and elderly who could not leave their houses and were subjected to collective punishment...." For weeks, these areas were deprived of food, water, healthcare, and electricity. As a result, contaminated water was used "from ditches and nearby rivers," causing cholera and other waterborne diseases. Article here.
It was not enough to invade, and occupy.
ReplyDeleteThey destroyed all infrastructure and contaminated the whole country.
Some would call it ethnic cleansing. Others would call it tribal migration.
I call it a crime.
Destroy, hold and rebuild. This was the plan.
Rebuild meant having Bechtel, Fluor, Westinghouse, and others come in and have Iraq pay them with their wealth of oil. They have done it in the past. Perkins covered it quite well. In his book. Confessions of an economic hit man.
Saudi Arabia is a perfect example of where the Saudi's elected to play ball.
Iraq was the perfect example where Sadam refused to play ball. Now Iran, and Pakistan are/and have been targets for the economic hit men.