Iran-Iraq War, approx 9 yrs 350,000 killed: mostly combattants

in Bu$h's war already 100,000 in less timeand many many children and women:

Read and weep:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1030-23.htm

Published on Saturday, October 30, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
The Most Tragic Victims of the Iraq War
by Dr. César Chelala


Recent information on the consequences of the Iraq war on civilians and children only confirms a devastating picture of the situation. According to an article in the medical magazine The Lancet, there has been an excess of 100,000 civilians deaths since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The deaths have included a substantial number of children. Carol Bellamy, UNICEF's Executive Director, has called the death of 34 children in recent bomb attacks "an unconscionable slaughter of innocents."

Many of those deaths have been the consequence of coalition forces' actions. According to the authors of the study published in The Lancet, there has been substantially more deaths in Iraq since the war began that in the period immediately before the conflict. The killings of dozens of children in Baghdad's recent bombings show, according to UNICEF, "a disregard for innocent lives that recalled the recent massacre of children in Beslan, Russia."

This is the third time that Iraqi children have been victims of war in that country's recent history. The two conflicts previous to the present one were the eight-year war with Iran in the 1980s and the Gulf War in 1991, which caused considerable damage to Iraq's infrastructure. In addition, the country has been under over 12 years of comprehensive United Nations' sanctions.

Although after it was introduced in 1996 the Oil for Food Program (OFFP), which allowed the Iraqi government to sell oil and use the revenue to purchase humanitarian supplies, contributed to reduce the impact of the sanctions, it had significant shortcomings. Among them was Saddam Hussein's decision to use the funds for personal gain rather than to improve the basic services' infrastructure in the country.

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Could we say genocide?

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Pretty sad to welcome someone over such tragedy, plus 8 Marines doing their job, but the wrong one.

How many of our young people must be maimed and killed before America wakes up if Bush wins the popular vote I think I'm going to stay out away from everyone for awhile I just couldn't take it.

Imagine more than a million American "excess deaths" in a year and a half.

were needed to rebuild the infrastruture was on the banned list. remember cheney wanted the sanctions lifted....

industry, not the people.