By Amanda Bissell Photo from EPIC . Basrah, September, 1998.
Hospitals lack such necessities as syringes, painkillers, and blood for transfusions.
Children, who are starving to death, play in streets flowing with sewage. The infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. These certainly seem like the conditions of war to me. Now you may be thinking all of this is justifiable, after all Saddam Hussein is the leader of Iraq, and he is such a very bad man. While Hussein is used for propaganda in the US the sanctions, which directly affect the lives of common citizens, are an even more powerful tool used in Iraq.