The War Against Iraqi Children

Following the US bombing campaign that targeted Iraq's water supplies and dams (in defiance of the Geneva Convention), the main rivers and other water sources in Iraq remain heavily polluted. Children are still dying, every day, as a result.

Ghali Hasan says people in the West, particularly Americans, have been carefully screened (by Fox News, NBC and the likes) from seeing any sign of vast devastation, suffering and genocides caused by their government wars of aggression and committed in their names. How many more thousands of Iraqi children have to die in order to awake the consciences of Westerners liberals? The liberal and mainstream media of the West, whose main concerns are “morality” and “human rights”, live in silence when the genocide of Iraqi children perpetrated by Western leaders...

"Article 54 of the Geneva Convention states: "It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive."

"This is precisely what the United States government did, with malice aforethought", Professor Nagy noted: "It destroyed, removed, or rendered useless Iraq's drinking water installations and supplies. The sanctions, imposed for a decade largely at the insistence of the United States, constitute a violation of the Geneva Convention. They amount to a systematic effort to, in the DIA's own words, "fully degrade" Iraq's water sources..."