* from damien: "This from Andrew Cockburn on deaths in Iraq: "The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million." (link)"
i have no words.
only tears.
rivers of tears.
please.make.it.fucking.stop.
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Those figures are to be believed. The Iraqi economic sanctions can properly be described as a Holocaust.
In 1993 Health expert Dr. Salman Rawaf described Iraq as "…18.8 million people in a refugee camp.."
Other observers went further: "A concentration camp with a population of 18 million, one third of which are children – of whom at least 100,000 are now dead, not from war but from hunger." - That was in 1993!
Then, the Iraq population was 18 million with a birth rate of 34.6 for every 1000 of the population. This meant that approximately 630,000 infants were born that year.
Using UN statistics we can see that the under 5 mortality rate went from 50 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 125 in 2004 - directly attributable to the economic sanctions.
Some care is needed here on the statistics. Making a rough assumption of a constant annual increase in the death rate over 14 years from 50 to 125 we find that this death rate increased by 5.4 per thousand every year and this provides us with an average annual death rate through the same period as 87.5 deaths per 1,000 for infants under five years.
That means, on an averaged basis over the years 1990 - 2004, for every 1,000 infants born, 37.5 more of them died directly as a result of the economic sanctions and the Iraq invasions than would have died otherwise.
Crunch the numbers for 1993. 630,000 infants were born that year. That's 37.5* 630 = 23,625. That's in 1993 alone!!!!
Over 14 years, and using reasonable assumptions, 330,700 infants died who would otherwise have lived.
And that doesn't include the elderly, chronically ill, or those destroyed by 'depleted uranium'.
You want to know what our sanctions did?
They did this and this and this and this and this.
Don't talk to me about tears. A part of me wants to reach for a gun.
BUT THE TERRORISTS BEHEAD PEOPLE!!!!
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