Yes, there are human rights violations in Iraq. To the extent that senior UN officials have described it as "genocide". In one famous quote the death of 500,000 was described as "worth it".
Unfortunately, the violation described as "genocide" was the US (and UK) backed application of sanctions to humanitarian supplies. And it was Madeline Albright who described the death of 500,000 children as "worth it", to protect US interests.
It's probably insensitive to scale those 500,000 dead children against the 3000 or so people killed on 9/11, but IMHO unless folks start to do it there's never going to be any real understanding of what's behind this "war", and no resolution to it. |
