“The Original Sin of the Twenty-First Century”

 

 

  2003年イラク攻撃

2003年3月20日、米英豪波連合軍はついにイラク攻撃を開始

“The Original Sin of the Twenty-First Century”

The fact that the Iraq War — one of the most heinous acts of aggression in modern times — was not only a complete disaster but an outright crime is seldom acknowledged in mainstream US politics. Since George Bush’s infamous address in May 2003 — in which he declared an end to major combat operations aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln a month after the invasion — hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children have been killed, millions have been maimed or injured, and many times more have been displaced.

 

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 The Bush administration was already planning to invade Iraq before 9/11, but the attacks supplied the necessary pretext. The catastrophic war that followed turned Iraq into an ungovernable wasteland.

National security advisor Condoleezza Rice eloquently and dishonestly encapsulated this tortured logic with a celebrated comment: “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

The US government never bothered to count Iraqi casualties. However, one estimate published by the British medical journal the Lancet calculated that 650,000 people, both civilians and combatants, had died as a result of the war by June 2006. A survey conducted a year later came up with a range of deaths somewhere between 946,258 and 1.12 million. Later estimates raised the number to 1.5 million by 2010.

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