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The US invasion and occupation of Iraq was extraordinarily destructive. The Lancet
Study estimated US bombing, shelling, machine gunning, attacks, raids killed
and wounded about one million Iraqis and created another four million war refugees.
But the sanctions regime, about which much less has been written, was also extremely
brutal and extremely deadly for Iraqis. For instance, the US systematically targeted
civilian water purification systems as well as civilian sewage treatment centers. Furthermore
the US took the precaution of embargoing chlorine, lest the Iraqis attempt to
purify enough water for drinking. And so in many cities raw sewage flowed freely into the remains of the drinking water system which had no means of killing bacteria. Cholera and dysentery were rampant.
As a result, while millions in Iraq suffer from chronic diarrhea, infants subjected
to bacteria laced water, whose constitutions are quite delicate, died in the
hundreds of thousands. Asked about the situation, US state department
officials said such policy was not only necessary, but completely justified