Iraq verging on famine
PRELIMINARY REMARK:
War causes people to be killed, maimed, crippled and disfigured for life.
Statistically, however, FAMINE causes far more deaths than war in most cases.
Famine -- like drought -- is not as spectacular as a tsunami, earthquake, or volcano, but famines and droughts have statistically been the greatest killers in human history. Even worse (by far) than disease.
The well-fed Israeli parasites will be delighted with the following news...
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In 1991 the USA blockaded Iraq, causing the Iraqi currency and economy to collapse. Denis Halliday, then UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, described the U.S.- led sanctions as "genocidal.” Halliday quit his post in protest.
According to the UN, the American sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults. The sanctions also caused malnutrition, disease, and lack of medicines.
Saddam Hussein’s government responded by introducing a public rationing system that allotted families a number of basic foodstuffs each month.
This government-run Public Distribution System (PDS), program continued into the U.S.-led occupation. The monthly food ration was two kilos of rice, sugar, soap, tea, detergent, wheat flour, lentils, chickpeas, and other items for every individual.
This is what Iraqis survive on. Every month they wait in lines to receive food rations. Without rations, they have no food whatever.
In 2004, 97 percent of Iraqis were on the system.
By 2007, 37 percent were expelled from it.
Now the Iraqi government will cut monthly food rations in half in January 2008, and will expunge five million more people from the rationing system by June 2008.
The U.S.-puppet government says it must do this because of "insufficient funds and spiraling inflation."
Mohammed Hanoun -- Iraq's chief of staff for the ministry of trade -- told al-Jazeera, "In 2007, we asked for 3.2 billion dollars for rationing basic foodstuffs. Since the prices of imported foodstuff doubled this year, we requested 7.2 billion dollars for 2008. That request was denied."
According to an Oxfam International report released in July 2007, "43 percent of Iraqis suffer from absolute poverty, and over half the population have no jobs. Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19 percent before the U.S.-led invasion to 28 percent now."
Because of the U.S. war on Iraq, prices for food and fuel have skyrocketed. Half of all Iraqis have no income whatever, and thus cannot buy food. They depend on the rationing system, which will now be cut in half.
Saddam Hussein maintained the program with less than a billion dollars. The current U.S. puppet government cannot do it with $3.2 billion.
Because Iraqi families are large, usually six to 12 people, shopping for food is unaffordable.
"No security, no electricity, no trade, no services – and now no food, " said one resident, who declined to give his name.
Many fear the food ration cuts will increase the violence as everyone becomes desperate.
So this is how the US spreads democracy in the Middle East?
It seems never to run out of funds for killing Iraqis, which is quite expensive business, but to keep them alive, that is too expensive!
This is not a question of what the US can afford or not, this is an obligation under international law, and if the US cannot afford it, it just has to leave, it is as simple as that!
We need to see some very clear and convincing actions from the US if we are to be convinced that that purpose of the occupation is not downright genocide performed for its own purpose or for that wonderful country, which is the only democracy in the region.
"..WE think the price is worth it!"
A consensus among genocidal war_criminals.
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This is so sad, I am ashamed to be an American, this and the torture of the Palestinians by denying them a life worth living just adds to our national shame and our ongoing genocidial history. We hear constantly about the Holocaust and its' horrors, but the Holocausts our country has committed and is committing are ignored in the press and in the schools and in the population of "Christians".
that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was executed for the purpose of pulverizing the country, destroying the civilization and the culture, killing any and all who would resist, and reducing the remainder of the population to those who can survive on the least subsistence yet still manage to provide a working slave force.
The most evil and twisted hearts on earth concocted this plan and the most lost souls are executing it.
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"Money" has no value - people do.