Why is the U.S. bombing Iraq again and sending in special forces? Given the history of U.S. sanctions, invasion and occupation no one should believe that it is out of some new-found concern for the plight of the Iraqi people, as President Obama claimed. In fact, it is U.S. intervention that has been the key factor in creating their plight. Over the past quarter-century, four administrations have waged criminal war by military and economic means on a country that has never threatened the U.S. The consequences have been indescribably horrible. More than two million people – overwhelmingly civilians — have died due to economic deprivation and armed violence. More than five million more have been wounded and/or made refugees. This in a country whose population today is about 26 million. Iraq has been torn apart in ways that would have seemed unimaginable two decades ago.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 02:21:17 +0000