CIA Covert Operations and U.S. Interventions Since World War II Part 8
Channel: Chris XXX
Date: 2011-10-18

This was a movie that was given to me at a lecture at the University of Arizona in 2003 by Frank Dorrel. I'm uploading it to YouTube in the hope that it will educate the public about the activities of their government. 


Part 8 deals with 7 years of US sanctions on Iraq. The result is the 1.7 million people have died. When tells Madeline Albright that reports are that ½ million children have died, more children than died in Hiroshima, Albright responds that the price is worth it.
The video goes on to explain how the result of US sanctions against Iraq was genocide. The Bush administration tried to blame Saddam Hussein for the suffering in Iraq, but the real cause of these deaths was the sanctions. The sanctions are an extension of the 1991 war against Iraq and the goal was to cripple Iraq's infrastructure and make civilian life unsustainable.  Ramsey Clark explains that the US didn't want the Iraqis to be able to feed themselves for a long, long time. The US bombed the only factory in the Middle East to produce powdered mild for children under the guise of destroying weapons of mass destruction. The malnutrition rate for mothers and infants soared. Iraq's water purification plants were bombed and banned the import of chlorine to decontaminate drinking water. The result is disease. 800 tons of depleted uranium weapons was used in the war.  This caused a rise in cancers in the Iraqi population.
To understand why the United States needs to kill Iraqi children, we need to understand the history of the region. For years, US, British and French oil companies owned 95% of Iraq's oil while maintaining a puppet monarchy,  The people of Iraq lived in extreme poverty while the Western corporation exploited their natural resources.
In 1958, the Iraqi people revolted against King Faisal II. The US and Britain sent troops to the Middle East to prevent Iraq from becoming a sovereign country.
When Iraq nationalized its oil and used its own wealth to develop industry, modern sanitation, education and an excellent health care system, the United States acted to return Iraq to a virtual colony. Iraq oil represented 2/3 of the world's petroleum reserves and United States corporations desperately wanted control over the wealth of the Iraqi people. Even though the sanctions violated the United Nations declaration of universal human rights, the US government continued its policy. The tax dollars people of the United States went to the starvation of Iraqi children -- all in the interests of the most powerful US oil companies.




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