Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War Iraq Und

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The years of bombing and sanctions imposed on Iraq before the 2003 invasion claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them children under five. Because the sanctions prevented Iraq from importing basic necessities needed for medical treatment, easily preventable diseases have taken a devastating toll on the Iraqi people, while Saddam Hussein and his powerful friends remain unaffected.

In this moving collection, leading voices against the sanctions document the human, environmental, and social toll of the United States-led siege against Iraq. Carefully documented, thoroughly researched, and written in clear language, Iraq Under Siege will be invaluable for anyone wanting to understand the roots of US policy in Iraq and the Middle East. The volume also includes photographs and first-person accounts from Iraq that show the human story of the sanctions, ending with concrete ideas on how people can help end them.

With chapters by

Ali Abunimah
Dr. Huda S. Ammash
Anthony Arnove
Naseer Aruri
Barbara Nimri Aziz
David Barsamian
Phyllis Bennis
George Capaccio
Noam Chomsky
Robert Fisk
Denis Halliday
Kathy Kelly
Rania Masri
Dr. Peter Pellett
John Pilger
Sharon Smith
Voices in the Wilderness
Howard Zinn

"Here is a brilliantly collated body of unrelenting, undeniable evidence of the horrors that the U.S government sanctions are visiting upon the people, in particular the children, of Iraq. For ordinary citizens sanctions are just another kind of dictatorship. Remote-controlled, seemingly civilized, they actually, literally, squeeze the very breath from babies' bodies."
--Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

"For almost a full decade an inhuman campaign of sanctions-the most complete ever in recorded history-has destroyed Iraq as a modern state, decimated its people, ruined its agriculture, educational and health care systems, as well as its entire infrastructure. All this has been done by the United States and United Kingdom, misusing United Nations resolutions against innocent civilians, leaving the tyrant Saddam Hussein more or less untouched. This remarkable book is an invaluable documentation of the tragedy, and deserves reading by every citizen interested in the appalling reality of US and UK foreign policy."
--Edward W. Said

"This book gives us a key to understand the New World Order, and warns about how Iraq's tragedy may be a model for global bullying and global impunity in coming times."
--Eduardo Galeano

"The arguments for change are pretty convincing. The undecided should pay heed."
--The Economist