.... I dont agree that this effort is a cruel jest . . I think its the least we could do considering all the harm the US has perpetrated on Iraq. Professor Juan Cole is a Professor at The Univ of MI and has lived in / researched / and written extensively on Middle East affairs. ------------------------- “The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent 8-year military Occupation of that country caused over one million Iraqis to be displaced abroad . . . . . Further about 4 million Iraqis were displaced internally. Baghdad underwent an ethnic cleansing of its Sunni Arabs, with the proportion likely falling from 45 percent of the city to 15 percent or so of the city. The “Islamic State” push on the capital in concert with other Sunni Arabs is an attempt to recover what was taken from them by the Bush administration. Likewise, the Sunni Turkmen of Tel Afar under the Americans were ethnically cleansed and the town became largely Shiite. Turkmen Shiites are among the northern ethnic groups now menaced by IS. . . . The US was the proximate cause of a civil war in 2006-2007 in which at some points as many as 3,000 people were being killed each month . . . . How many Iraqis died because of the US invasion, i.e. the extra mortality rate, is hard to estimate. But likely it was at least 300,000 persons. Typically wounded in war are three times as many as the killed, so that would give us nearly 1 million wounded. Most of the 300,000 who died were men, many of them with families, and in Iraq there were few or no insurance policies. That left 300,000 or so widows and likely 1.5 million orphans. . . But there is no way a few food drops can make up for what the US did to Iraq.”
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:41:14 +0000
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