But they say that somehow this is not war. They deny that they are targeting civilians with their bombing campaign. How the US government can consistently bomb civilians and civilian infrastructure by accident is something I do not understand. Sanctions are a form of collective punishment, and, in Iraq, they have indiscriminately killed over 1,000,000 people. Sanctions are the greatest single weapon of mass destruction at work in the world today.
Sanctions are the greatest single weapon of mass destruction at work in the world today.
Because of this blockade, there are critical shortages of food and medicine. According to the UN, a child dies every 10 minutes in Iraq because of sanctions. And somehow this too is still not war. 1,000,000 people are dead. 5,000 children die, for lack of adequate food, medicine, or clean water, each and every month.