These are a small percentage of victims. The Iraqi ones greatly outnumber the US victims, and were innocent victims of genocide, mostly children. Playing the godess of death and destruction, the US wreaked havoc on the people of Iraq. Nearly six months after signing the ’oil-for-food’ deal with the UN (security council resolution 986 - December 9, 1996), Iraq received very little food or medicines it was promised.
In the meantime, the casualty figures kept climbing. Most of the victims were civilians with children accounting for the overwhelming majority of casualties. Infant mortality rate among children over five years of age had climbed to 8,000 per month (a staggering 100,000 deaths annually), or one child dying every 5.5 minutes. The infant mortality rate for the pre-1990 trade embargo was 1600.
Whatever one’s view of Iraq’s tyrannical ruler, Saddam Husain, the country had one of the best free healthcare systems in the Middle East, if not the world Thanks to US-led sanctions, even before the cluster bombing and uranium shelling, the system has collapsed completely. Millions of mothers were forced to watch their children wither away and die before their eyes while unable to save them. Some 839,400 children had died in Iraq as a direct result of US sponsored sanctions from August 1990 to 1996 according to Sultan Ishawi, head of the Support the Iraqi Children. Lets not completely forget these -even if the media would like us to.
These are a small percentage of victims. The Iraqi ones greatly outnumber the US victims, and were innocent victims of genocide, mostly children. Playing the godess of death and destruction, the US wreaked havoc on the people of Iraq. Nearly six months after signing the ’oil-for-food’ deal with the UN (security council resolution 986 - December 9, 1996), Iraq received very little food or medicines it was promised.
In the meantime, the casualty figures kept climbing. Most of the victims were civilians with children accounting for the overwhelming majority of casualties. Infant mortality rate among children over five years of age had climbed to 8,000 per month (a staggering 100,000 deaths annually), or one child dying every 5.5 minutes. The infant mortality rate for the pre-1990 trade embargo was 1600.
Whatever one’s view of Iraq’s tyrannical ruler, Saddam Husain, the country had one of the best free healthcare systems in the Middle East, if not the world Thanks to US-led sanctions, even before the cluster bombing and uranium shelling, the system has collapsed completely. Millions of mothers were forced to watch their children wither away and die before their eyes while unable to save them. Some 839,400 children had died in Iraq as a direct result of US sponsored sanctions from August 1990 to 1996 according to Sultan Ishawi, head of the Support the Iraqi Children. Lets not completely forget these -even if the media would like us to.