Reply #192: i can't believe there's even an argument on this one...

[NuttyFluffers]

ever since the British left (and deliberately carved up the country of Iraq so it'll be an eternal mess of antagonistic encounters -- surprisingly like most modern countries now, but that's an unintended irony of the age) the British and Americans have done nothing but harass that poor land.

our horrible history goes way back, but let's just start with the high point of Iraqi development with a "national consciousness." by placing Saddam in power we essentially enslaved these people to utter agony and oppression. then we give him chemical weapons to "stabilize his region" -- wiping out whole towns. next we instigate Saddam as a proxy to fight against Iran -- a country we recently lost control from our routine destabilization techniques -- and, insanity of insanity, we supported both sides militarily.

after that we tacitly give the green light to Saddam, after 9 years of playing both Iran and Iraq off each other, to attack Kuwait. but wait! we suddenly find Iraq a convenient boogeyman and organize a massive coalition to wipe out most of his army -- that we supplied and were essentially working with us for the past few decades. we literally leave a Highway of Death. later, since we're not satisfied with that, we lead the world in some of the harshest sanctions ever seen, killing at least a million -- 500K of those children.

not satisfied yet we overthrow Saddam's gov't, abolish all vestigial forms of civil and military control and reduce the land to anarchy. in the ensuing melee we kill another million people through violence alone, displacing many more and leaving others to die from mal-nourishment, disease, and lacking health supplies. and then there's Depleted Uranium....

Casualties of US interference with Iraq specifically:
Current Iraq War = @ 1 million and growing
Iraq Sanctions = @ 1 million (500K at least being children)
Iran Iraq War (America's Proxy War) = @ 500k
Saddam's Chemical "Gift" = @ 30k
Depleted Uranium = 10000 years of future Iraqi generations to dead or maimed directly because of (preventable) exposure

that, on the most conservative estimates, is 2.5 million people and growing. continual harassment and torment of an entire nation and all its people that reside there for well over 50 years by another country -- ours -- and leaving lingering poisons, let alone destroyed infrastructure, that will still affect them for generations to come. by any sane sense of the word, as its definition has repeatedly been shown in this thread, this is Genocide.

to come to any other conclusion is unconscionable or ignorance.