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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 10:28 AM
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Just A Reminder
Iraq: 19 years of intended destruction

The intended destruction — or genocide — of Iraq as a state and nation has been ongoing for 19 years, combining the imposition of the most draconian sanctions regime ever designed and that led to 1.5 million Iraqi deaths, including 500,000 children, with a war of aggression that led to the violent deaths of over one million more.

Destroying Iraq included the purposeful targeting of its water and sanitation system, attacking the health of the civilian population. Since 1990, thousands of tons of depleted uranium have been dropped on Iraq, leading in some places to a 600 per cent rise in cancer and leukaemia cases, especially among children. In both the first Gulf War and “Shock and Awe” in 2003, an air campaign that openly threatened “total destruction”, waves of disproportionate bombing made no distinction between military and civilian targets, with schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, shelters, residential areas, and historical sites all destroyed.

Destroying Iraq included promoting, funding and organizing sectarian and ethnic groups bent on dividing Iraq into three or more sectarian or ethnic entities, backed by armed militias that would terrorize the Iraqi people. Since 2003, some 4.7 million Iraqis — one fifth of the population — have been forcibly displaced. Under occupation, kidnappings, killings, extortion and mutilation became endemic, targeting men, women and even children and the elderly.

Destroying Iraq included purposefully dismantling the state by refusing to stop or stem or by instigating mass looting, and by engaging in ideological persecution, entailing “manhunting”, extrajudicial assassinations, mass imprisonment and torture, of Baathists, the entire educated class of the state apparatus, religious and linguistic minorities and Arab Sunnis, resulting in the total collapse of all public services and other economic functions and promoting civil strife and systematic corruption.

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http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=20484
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 10:30 AM
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1. Robbing the cradle of civilization. nt
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 10:32 AM
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2. K&R
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 10:38 AM
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3. k&r
because I know there are young ones here who still believe this was "bush's war" even though the destruction was deliberate and methodical through the Clinton Years.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 12:02 PM
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4. Quite a few DUers never knew it in the first place, and will still refuse to know it.
Probably something about beautiful minds.
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 01:45 PM
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5. K&R nt
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 03:09 PM
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6. K & R
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maryf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 03:44 PM
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7. K&R
Edited on Sun Oct-18-09 03:45 PM by maryf
:-(
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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 09:12 PM
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8. Bump
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