Blockade

The real true wake up screaming horror of the plague struck after the shooting and bombing ended. You may have noticed that during the Gulf "War" the U.S. also bombed Iraq’s infrastructure. This does not sound like much when you put it that way. The other way to put it was presented in a Defense Intelligence Agency paper from January of 1991. This was, please note, 2 days into the Gulf “War”:            

"IRAQ WATER TREATMENT VULNERABILITIES"

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency document of 28 key judgments, from the 2nd day of the Gulf War, available through the Department of Defense GulfLINK declassification project. For the full document, click here. For related documents, see http://progressive.org/mag_nagysanctions. Excerpts (emphasis added):

    FM: DIA WASHINGTON DC
    TO: CENTCOM
    INFO: CENTAF; UK STRIKE COMMAND; MARCENT; 18 ABC; NAVCENT; SOCCENT; 7TH CORPS; ANKARA
    
    SUBJECT: IRAQ WATER TREATMMENT VULNERABILITIES (U)
             AS OF 18 JAN 91 KEY JUDGMENTS.
    
    1. IRAO DEPENDS ON IMPORTING-SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT-AND SOME CHEMICALS TO PURIFY ITS WATER SUPPLY, MOST OF WHICH IS HEAVILY MINERALIZED AND FREQUENTLY BRACKISH TO SALINE.
    
    2. WITH NO DOMESTIC SOURCES OF BOTH WATER TREATMENT REPLACEMENT PARTS AND SOME ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS, IRAO WILL CONTINUE ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS TO IMPORT THESE VITAL COMMODITIES.
    
    3. FAILING TO SECURE SUPPLIES WILL RESULT IN A SHORTAGE OF PURE DRINKING WATER FOR MUCH OF THE POPULATION. THIS COULD LEAD TO INCREASED INCIDENCES, IF NOT EPIDEMICS, OF DISEASE….

  You could go and read this thing if you want to- it’s not as if it were a big secret, or a leftist attack on your country. This is straight from the Defense Department..
Anyway, this document goes on to spell out in fine detail how the U.S. will knock out water treatment facilities, and then, through U.N. imposed sanctions, make sure they cannot be repaired, and furthermore  no chemical treatment will be possible. The intended result will be, as stated in the above document,  “…a shortage of pure drinking water for much of the population. This could lead to increased incidences, if not epidemics of disese…”
 So now at least we finally learned the purpose of that carpet bombing of Iraq’s infrastructure. It was phase one of what they planned from the very beginning. They meant to wage baceriological warfare on the Iraqi civilian population. When their efforts succeeded, maybe even beyond their hopes, humanitarian organizations told them what harm was being done, they  explained that making the people suffer was the whole objective.
  And suffer they surely did. For the next twelve years epidemics of water borne diseases  killed over a million and a half people, mostly children under five years old. If anyone went to a hospital for treatment, they found the hospitals incapable of helping them. They had no medicines, banned by the sanctions, no equipment, no electricity. All of this has been thoroughly documented by the U.N. as well as many independent organizations and individuals.
 
The magnitude of this atrocity is difficult to exaggerate. All those children, over all those years not just being killed, but dying the most horrible and painful deaths imaginable. If the U.S. had had the mercy to just line the toddlers up against a wall and shoot them, the world must surely have risen up to stop them. But by torturing them to death with deliberately inflicted diseases, while denying them even the most rudimentary medical care and with, as usual, the ever helpful wall of silence put up by the mainstream media,  they avoided effective criticism or complaint.

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