Quagmire Iraq: Civilian Deaths, Refugee Count Staggering (Iraq)

SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- Second in a three-part series Few Iraqis could have viewed America as savior when we invaded in the spring of 2003. The United States and Britain, at that point, had been bombing Iraq roughly every three days for 12 years. Also, economic sanctions enforced by Clinton (since Bush-the-First overlooked toppling Hussein) had so devastated civilian life that the United Nations believes 500,000 Iraqi children perished for lack of medicine. Still, we marvel at our lack of military "progress" after four and a half years of fighting and flailing. We must ask why things are going so rottenly in Iraq. We examine the Global Policy Forum's recent white paper, "War and Occupation in Iraq," which can be found at www.globalpolicy.org/ security/issues/iraq.