A Challenge to the Supreme Court: Can the US Kill Iraqi Children Legally?

Bert Sacks, www.dissidentvoice.org

"Imagine if a U.S. cruise missile were to land on a kindergarten and kill 165 children. Imagine now that it was launched knowing it would hit that kindergarten, and further, that one of these missiles was launched at a different kindergarten every day for a month. That's 5,000 children. "To kill that many children as a matter of state policy would be unspeakable. The American commander in chief would be condemned as a barbarian. And yet, that is what the economic embargo of Iraq has done." This is from a Seattle Times editorial six years ago. For ten years I have wanted to ask one very basic question: Not only were the sanctions barbaric, but were the sanctions legal? Could the US cause the deaths of thousands of Iraqi children every month for years and do so legally?...

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