How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday September 16, 2002 23:12 by Nacho

The Secret Behind the Sanctions How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply

The Secret Behind the Sanctions
How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply

by Thomas J. Nagy

"Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civilian Iraqis, mostly children, would pay, and it went ahead anyway."

http://www.progressive.org/0801issue/nagy0901.html

Thomas J. Nagy teaches at the School of Business and Public Management at George Washington University.