Reply #283: This isn't the Holocaust, but it is a genocide.

[The Stranger]

In this particular genocide, the intent is on the ground, in the actions of those committing the genocide. You cannot look at their press releases for genocidal intent. And you mustn't be so naive that they would tell you what their true intentions are.

Over 100,000 Iraqi children were killed due to the known and intentional actions of the U.S., and that was even before the current "war." The true death toll from the five years of torture, destruction, shock and awe, bombings, random shootings of innocent people, unknown gulags now being exposed -- will not be known for years to come.

Moreover, the obliteration of infrastructure, social services, including hospitals, medicine, water, electricity, plumbing, sewage -- all of these things lead to more death, disease, higher infant mortality, criminal activity -- this is the destruction of a people.