IT'S AS IF 12 TO 20 MILLION AMERICANS HAD BEEN KILLED BY "SANCTIONS" SINCE 1990

MER - Washington - 24 November: The U.S. is at war with Iraq -- make no mistake about that. And it is brutal, nearly genocidal war -- make no mistake about that. And it is substantially the result of the convoluted, but real nevertheless, U.S./Israeli/Saudi alliance to control the entire Middle East region -- make no mistake about that either.

Iraq is being collectively tortured for its defiance of American and Israeli domination plans for the region. Even official UN reports document that nearly 1 million Iraqis -- mostly the young and the elderly -- have died in the past seven years as a direct result of American policies. Other expert estimates put the number at somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million -- half under the age of 5.

When compared to the American population, this would be the equivalent of some 12 to 20+ million Americans killed since 1990! And more bombing, destruction, misery, and collective death lie immediately ahead. And yet, still facilitating this terrible carnage -- no matter what public relations theatrics they use -- the Arab "client regimes" from Cairo to Amman to Riyadh continue to allow American aircraft carriers and battle ships to pass through the Suez Canal and American bombers of all descriptions to land at their huge desert military encampments, preparing another round of devastation for the people of Iraq.