{"id":348747,"date":"2018-02-18T01:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oops-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T01:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:37:38","slug":"oops-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oops-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gathering of rich oil Arabs pledged $30 billion this week at a meeting in Kuwait to start rebuilding war-shattered Iraq.\u00a0 Sounds nice but these kinds of conclaves are notorious for offering big but delivering little.<\/p>\n

The event was billed as helping Iraq repair war damage caused by ISIS.\u00a0 In fact, most of the damage from that short-lived conflict was caused by US bombing and a few Russian air strikes.\u00a0\u00a0 ISIS, as this column has long been crying in the wilderness, was largely a paper tiger confected by the US, Britain and France to justify their military re-entry into Syria.<\/p>\n

Iraq\u2019s government says it needs at least $88 billion to rebuild war damage.\u00a0 What the US-imposed client regime in Baghdad won\u2019t or can\u2019t say is that the damage to Iraq is far greater than $88 billion and was largely inflicted by US air power in 1990-1991 and 2003.<\/p>\n

Iraq was ravaged, as I saw myself while covering the wars.\u00a0 This small nation of 23-25 million souls, a third of whom were in permanent revolt against the Baghdad government, was pounded into rubble by US air power and cruise missiles.\u00a0 First in 1990-1991, then in 2003, everything of value was blown to bits:\u00a0 hospitals, schools, food factories, chemical plants making insecticide, bridges, and communications.\u00a0 In short, all the attributes of a modern state.<\/p>\n


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Most shocking to me, was the destruction of Iraq\u2019s water and sewage treatment plants by US air strikes.<\/p>\n

Their destruction resulted in epidemics of cholera and other water-born diseases.\u00a0 Children were the primary victims.\u00a0 The UN asserted that over 550,000 Iraqi children died as a result of contaminated water.\u00a0 US Secretary of State…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A gathering of rich oil Arabs pledged $30 billion this week at a meeting in Kuwait to start rebuilding war-shattered Iraq.\u00a0 Sounds nice but these kinds of conclaves are notorious for offering big but delivering little. The event was billed as helping Iraq repair war damage caused by ISIS.\u00a0 In fact, most of the damage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}