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To mark the 15th anniversary of the US war in Iraq, here’s a thread on some of the war’s darkest moments.
The war, which is one of the greatest crime of last half of 20th century, killed over 1 million people, displaced millions more, brought unknowable depths of suffering to the Iraqi people & gave birth to ISIS.
The US fueled the civil war in Iraq by funding sectarian death squads. The US brought in Jim Steele, who had advised US-backed death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s. At the height of the Iraqi civil war 3,000 Iraqis were dying a month. theguardian.com/world/2013/mar…
The US troops in Iraq fired tens of thousands of rounds of radioactive depleted uranium, often in close proximity to civilian areas. theguardian.com/world/2014/jun…
This and other heavy metals used in US bombs have caused widespread birth defects in Iraq. abcnews.go.com/Health/birth-d…
The US siege of Fallujah involved cutting off water & blocking food/medical supplies into the city for 3 weeks. Many women/children took their chances & fled, despite the danger. However men were prevented from leaving & were ordered back into the kill zone.
Due to the enormous US firepower used on Fallujah, the city has been left w/ a toxic legacy. One study shows incidents of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
The US engaged in routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, most infamously at Abu Ghraib, where Saddam’s security forces had notoriously tortured prisoners. The US troops at Abu Ghraib engaged in physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder.
The most egregious allegation at Abu Ghraib are that US soldiers raped Iraqi women, beat people to death & that there was a videotape, apparently shot by US personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.
newyorker.com/magazine/2004/…
The US tried, in every possible way, to prevent elections in Iraq. The US was finally forced to allow elections by mass outpourings of people demanding elections. When the US/UK finally allowed elections, they did their best to subvert them. theguardian.com/world/2004/jan…
US relied on vicious mercenaries like Blackwater, which routinely engaged in murder and earned millions to help the US brutal occupation. The most infamous of their crimes was the Nisour Square Massacre, which killed 17 Iraqi civilians & wounded dozens more.
The war in Iraq was launched as part of the US war on Terror, however the war drastically increased incidents of terror. Jihadis from around the world came to fight the Americans. The first ever suicide bombing in Iraq took place in 2003, after the US invasion.
US forces regularly targeted civilians in Iraq. This was demonstrated by the “Collateral Murder” video leaked by Chelsea Manning, in which a US Apache fires on unarmed Iraqis & then again on the 1st responders. 12 ppl were killed & 2 children were wounded. collateralmurder.wikileaks.org
The brutal US-run prisons in Iraq became Jihadi Universities where future terrorists became radicalized & built a network. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, was held for 10 months in a US-run prison in Iraq.
theintercept.com/2016/08/25/u-s…
After the war, Iraq suffered major destruction of its rich cultural heritage, which included looting and burning of the Iraq National Museum & a large number of mosque bombings. cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476…
US military bases produce an enormous amount of toxic trash & US military burned it all in huge open air pits. The result has been 1000s of US troops & Iraqi’s living near US bases have become seriously sick or developed cancer.
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/f…
War criminals like George W. Bush (and the rest of the architects of the war) should be in prison instead of running around free while Iraqis continue to suffer the consequences of the war.
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