Chlorine to purify water and pesticides for the swarms of mosquitoes and flies are both banned under UN sanctions. These sights all came back to me as I went over the contributions to this book from doctors, journalists, photographers and film makers. They have recorded vivid personal impressions of a policy that invades every crevice of Iraqi society. The book uses many different resources to explain the catastrophe in Iraq today. Cold hard statistics about crop output, caloric intake, water purification, and infant mortality prove the crime.
Photos make the victims' faces unforgettable.
Impassioned letters and testimony to the United Nations Security Council show the anger against the criminals. Documents and resolutions of international conferences show how opposition is mounting. However, the full impact cannot be fathomed without reading the book in its entirety and studying the photographs that bear witness to the crime.