Why Obama should end the "war on terror"

[Neo]

More than a million Iraqi's have died as a result of UN Embargo and US led Nato invasion of Iraq:

Death Toll from Embargo over 1.3 Million: Iraq​

Monday, July 03, 2000

More than 1.3 million Iraqi have died because of the decade-old devastating U.N. embargo, Iraq's Health Ministry said in a report released on Sunday.

The report said that from August 1990 till the end of last May, a total of 1,316,578 Iraqis perished due to the "disastrous effects" of the embargo on Iraq's health sector. Among the victims were 600,000 children under the age of five, it added.

Embargo death toll tops 1.5 million​

11th Jully 2001

BAGHDAD, July 11 (AFP) - More than 1.5 million Iraqis, 41 percent of them children under five, have died from the impact of UN sanctions in force against Iraq since August 1990, the official news agency INA reported Wednesday.
Quoting an official report to the United Nations, it said shortages of medicine, vaccines and hospital equipment due to the embargo had up until the end of May claimed a total of 1,520,417 lives .The deaths included 622,887 children under the age of five, according to the report delivered to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan by Iraq's ambassador to the world body, Mohammad al-Douri.
The report said that 49 percent of medical orders submitted by Iraq for approval by the UN sanctions committee had been blocked by US and British representatives on the committee.
Iraq, whose health ministry last month gave a sanctions-linked death toll of almost 1.5 million by the end of May, has been under embargo since it invaded Kuwait in August 1990.Most of the deaths have been caused by diarrhoea, pneumonia and respiratory problems, as well as malnutrition, all conditions which were treatable in pre-sanctions Iraq, it said.

The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society​

Part one
By Bill Van Auken

19 May 2007

While official politics and the media in the United States are focused largely on competing plans for salvaging the American occupation from the debacle it confronts in Iraq, little serious consideration is given to the historic catastrophe that has been inflicted upon Iraqi society itself.

Although no definitive figures can be given on the total number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the US war and occupation—including those killed in the invasion and subsequent armed violence and those whose lives have been cut short by disease and hunger, particularly among the young and old—every serious estimate places the excess death toll between several hundred thousands and one million human beings.

Iraq, once among the most advanced countries of the region, has been reduced, in terms of basic economic and social indices, to the level of the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

Iraq death toll over 'one million' and rising​

February 01, 2008

More than one million Iraqis have died in the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new survey released as violence continues to plague the area. Just yesterday five more people were killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad.

The survey found that 20% of people in Iraq had at least one death in their household that was a direct result of the conflict, rather than natural causes. And the survey was unable to include data from two of Iraq's more dangerous regions, Kerbala and Anbar. The results give figures more than 10 times that of the Iraq Body Count website estimates, but the site's methodology has been questioned.

 

[Neo]

Israel is your bete noir, but has killed only a fraction of the Lebanese that Syria has killed.

Two wrongs don't make a right. 9/11 is a direct result of your blind support to Israel and constant screwing with M.E. countries.

 

[Neo]

Look, if Osama bin Laden had not taken down the World trade Center and had not attacked the Pentagon, we would have happily gone about our own lives.

Again, why would Osama, a former US ally want to attack USA? Isn't your one sided M.E. foreign policy to blame equally for 9/11?
Leave M.E. and you'll solve half of worlds problems.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Again, why would Osama, a former US ally want to attack USA? Isn't your one sided M.E. foreign policy to blame equally for 9/11?
Leave M.E. and you'll solve half of worlds problems.

Osama bin Laden was never a US ally. He would not deign to deal with the American CIA people in Afghanistan and threatened to kill any who came near his presence. I am totally in favor of the US "leaving" the Middle East. Most Americans would vote today to do so if that were ever offered as a binding referendum question on a secret ballot. The fact that our leaders do not do so is primarily because of the power of Jewish influence in our communications and financial sectors. American political leaders who attempt to modify, even slightly, the American lockstep support for Israel are quickly targeted for defeat in the next election. Almost always they lose to an onslaught of negative press coverage and heavy funding of their opponents campaigns from "out-of-district" donors. Americans have been convinced by "opinion leaders" that if we were to stop protecting Israel, then a terrible slaughter would ensue, a second holocaust, for which we would be morally responsible. Our public has been convinced that support of Israel is the only valid moral position. Ironically, Americans are convinced that support of Israel is the most "Christian" policy to have for the ME. If we were to totally withdraw from the ME as you want us to, we would solve most of our foreign policy problems, but the world might well see a new ME nuclear arms race and a nuclear exchange there within a decade.