It is the 7th anniversary today of the invasion of Iraq. War on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction which didn’t exist when the real reason was that the neocons wanted regime change and control of the oil.
In the 7 years of war:
- Fallujah doctors report rise in birth defects
- 2.8 million Iraqis remain internally displaced
- Iraq’s trade ministry hit by £2.6 billion fraud
- Voter fraud allegations
- The number of Iraqis killed in war-related violence increased by 44 percent between January and February 2010
- Iraqi children’s rights violated
- EI (Education International) protests against the continued harassment of union leaders
- Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year’s maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do. “The U.S. occupation has decided to let go of women’s rights,” Yanar Mohammed who campaigns for women’s rights in Iraq says.
- New fraud cases point to lapses in Iraq projects
- An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians, according to court testimony.
- The USA occupying forces in Iraq have locked up more than 162,000 Iraqi citizens in more than 50 prisons and detention camps including 28 camps run by US occupying forces, in addition to many undisclosed investigation and incarceration centres over Iraq.
So much for liberation!
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