Irak 193

'Nothing but Fascists
Ali Al-Sarraf,
Middle East Online

Never in modern history has country been forced to pay for its death,
torture, and destruction with its own money - its own oil revenues.
Iraq has become a country where thieves are entrusted with its
richness and where murderous gangs are entrusted with its security,
says Ali Al-Sarraf.

The war on Iraq was not carried out on the basis of mere strategic
interests. No strategies or interests could explain the level of
death and destruction that Iraq had undergone ever since the Gulf War
in 1991. If one were to assume that the US led invasion in 2003 is a
continuation of that war, then Iraq could be said to have suffered
more horrors than any country had, including the countries that were
involved the WWII.

We are talking about at least two and a half million Iraqi civilians
who had met their fate, where 750,000 of them were killed during the
last four years. That figure represents 10% of Iraq’s population. In
addition, you have over three and a half million Iraqis displaced
(two million of them fled outside the country while the other1.5
million lost their homes and became displaced inside their own
country). That is 14% of the population.

Even when the Nazis brought destruction to Europe during WWII, no
country alone suffered such human losses. Although the Soviet Union
at the time, who suffered the biggest number of victims, had lost 20
million lives (military and civilian), that figure represents only
10% of the population which was 197 million in 1941.'

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