Russia, China and other countries have also denounced it as an unwarranted and illegal infringement on Iraqi sovereignty. The no-fly zones have never been authorized by any United Nations resolution and represent a unilateral military intervention against Iraq by the US and Britain.
The regular bombings carried out against Iraqi targets, military and civilian, are ignored by the media as it trumpets the Bush administration’s warnings about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction.” Similarly, the effects of US-backed sanctions that have left the country in ruins and—according to United Nations agencies—cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqis, most of them children, go virtually unreported.
Bill Vann
World Socialist Web Site
See Also:
Cheney’s brief for war: a mass of lies and historical falsifications
[2 September 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/chen-s02.shtml
Behind the official debate, US builds up forces for attack on Iraq
[24 August 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/iraq-a24.shtml
American public left in dark on US war aims in Iraq
[6 August 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/iraq-a06.shtml
Article reprinted courtesy of the World SocialistWeb Site: http://www.wsws.org
Please also see "Gulf War Profiteering, Victors and Victims" and "The Powell Doctrine" in our War of the Shadows section.
or
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=313&blz=1
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=312&blz=1
The regular bombings carried out against Iraqi targets, military and civilian, are ignored by the media as it trumpets the Bush administration’s warnings about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction.” Similarly, the effects of US-backed sanctions that have left the country in ruins and—according to United Nations agencies—cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqis, most of them children, go virtually unreported.
Bill Vann
World Socialist Web Site
See Also:
Cheney’s brief for war: a mass of lies and historical falsifications
[2 September 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/chen-s02.shtml
Behind the official debate, US builds up forces for attack on Iraq
[24 August 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/iraq-a24.shtml
American public left in dark on US war aims in Iraq
[6 August 2002] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/iraq-a06.shtml
Article reprinted courtesy of the World SocialistWeb Site: http://www.wsws.org
Please also see "Gulf War Profiteering, Victors and Victims" and "The Powell Doctrine" in our War of the Shadows section.
or
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=313&blz=1
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=312&blz=1