On May 10, 1996, appearing on 60 Minutes, Madeleine Albright (then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and speaking for USrael) acknowledged that about a half a million children under five had died from the genocidal sanctions on Iraq. When asked how she felt about this, she replied "we think the price is worth it."
USrael is the greatest state sponsor of terror since Hitler's Nazi Germany. USrael came about through a merging of the military-industrial complexes of the US and Israel in the 1990's during the Clinton administration. During that period the US moved from a position of neutral broker-middleman in the Middle East to that of co-sponsor with Israel of regional terror. The genocidal sanctions against Iraq marks the beginning of USrael collaboration. Between 1990 and 2001 the sanctions resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis and the infant/young-child mortality rate in Iraq rose from 50 per 1,000 live births 133 per 1,000(meaning that more than 13 percent of Iraqi children die before the age of five). Since then USrael has been on a terror spree not seen since Hitler's time. So far Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Palestine have been all but destroyed. Next up for destruction: Iran and Syria.
USrael beneficiaries include:
- the military industrial complex of the US. This industry is a vital part of American industry. It was threatened by the end of the cold war. Obviously, peace is bad for merchants of weapons. The new long war is and has been a tremendous boon to the military industrial complex. Thousands of companies from Blackwater to GE to Halliburton have benefited. Many politicians of both parties are large shareholders in weapons companies, e.g. the Bush's, Feinsteins, Duke Cunningham's etc.
- Military industrial complex of Israel. Israel is a major supplier of high tech munitions and intelligence hardware and software. The equipment used by our government to eavesdrop on our conversations is made by Israeli companies.
- Big Oil. Already the Hunt family is making deals with the Kurds even as a Hunt serves on the foreign policy board of the US. Big Oil has been promised a sweetheart, profit sharing deal for the rest of Iraqi oil.
- State of Israel. Israel has been involved in stealing and illegally occupying Palestinian land for many years. With US backing Israel has been able to step up its land theft, apartheid practices, and imprisonment of Arab people's in Palestine.
4)Fundamentalist Christians. These lunatics are focused on end times. A precondition for the fulfillment of their collective delusion is the reinstatement of Biblical Israel from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
- Conservative Republicans. Money spent on war means less money for social programs, e.g. child health, etc. This abets the conservative agenda of preventing the implementation of such evils as "socialized" medicine.