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Dismantling the Iraqi State, Destroying an Entire Country > Destroying Iraqi culture, erasing collective memory > > By Dirk Adriaensens > > > Global > Research<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&et=1103877127362&s=9699&e=001BkYMVla0tLSb9vP0Z13u1UB8V0jh33PHSZHwSh-mQf6lFYVCZ6SH9JmY9m2pTFc3733GGgEvqNs8Xwwdx7Pn2ZGn2bbG6CSqATz_lVeyggsqvF6WHBtkCg==>, > November 5, 2010 > > *The United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva reviews the human > rights record of the United States on the 5th of November 2010, on the > occasion of the Ninth Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 1 to > 12 November 2010. The following is a presentation given by Dirk Adriaensens > in Geneva on 3 November.* > > > Just days after the devastating attacks of 9/11 Deputy Defense secretary > Paul Wolfowitz declared that a major focus of US foreign policy would be > “ending states that sponsor terrorism”. Iraq was labelled a “terrorist > state” and targeted for ending. President Bush went on to declare Iraq the > major front of the global war on terror. US forces invaded illegally with > the express aim to dismantling the Iraqi state. After WWII focus of social > sciences was on state-building and development model. Little has been > written on state-destruction and de-development. We can now, after 7 years > of war and occupation, state for certain that state-ending was a deliberate > policy objective. > > The consequences in human and cultural terms of the destruction of the > Iraqi state have been enormous: notably the death of over 1,3 million > civilians; the degradation in social infrastructure, including electricity, > potable water and sewage systems; over eight million Iraqis are in need of > humanitarian assistance; abject poverty: the UN Human rights report for the > 1st quarter of 2007 found that 54% of Iraqis were living on less than $1 a > day; the displacement of minimum 2.5 million refugees and 2.764.000 > internally displaced people as to end 2009. One in six Iraqis is displaced. > Ethnic & religious minorities are on the verge of extinction. UN-HABITAT, an > agency of the United Nations, published a 218-page report entitled State of > the World’s Cities, 2010-2011. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, > the percentage of the urban population living in slums in Iraq hovered just > below 20 percent. Today, that percentage has risen to 53 percent: 11 million > of the 19 million total urban dwellers. > full article -- > <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&et=1103877127362&s=9699&e=001BkYMVla0tLRKzli7CiHWj7Cn6sbJ5CCdB2a8q3cchSOTiM-udLHkdL4DcJQH6dkGfWhgYFQPNRnohjeN3bsQ_EfL3tRI9Xu3tHvB725QCOwU4LXAhBhjcJ18KmqSgGCbQCWHFheWqFsk_Qf7ThyIgxId9zLcT9Zz5l73FmYDm48=> > www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21781<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&et=1103877127362&s=9699&e=001BkYMVla0tLRKzli7CiHWj7Cn6sbJ5CCdB2a8q3cchSOTiM-udLHkdL4DcJQH6dkGfWhgYFQPNRnohjeN3bsQ_EfL3tRI9Xu3tHvB725QCOwU4LXAhBhjcJ18KmqSgGCbQCWHFheWqFsk_Qf7ThyIgxId9zLcT9Zz5l73FmYDm48=> > > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
