War Crimes, Damage, Public Deception: What the Media Didn't reveal
After the war, released war footage chronicling U.S. failures surfaced. Critics questioned whether or not the public had been given the complete picture of the war. In fact:
estimated Death Tolls
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"The vast majority of deaths were caused not by the direct impact of bombs but by the destruction of the electric power grid and the ensuing collapse of the public health, water and sanitation systems, leading to outbreaks of dysentery, cholera, and other water-borne diseases. The first post-war epidemiological survey throughout Iraq in August 1991 reported the deaths of 47,000 children under the age of five. The first United Nations mission to post-war Iraq documented how 'apocalyptic damage' to the infrastructure had reduced the country to 'the pre-industrial age.'" — Center for Economic and Social Rights, April 2003 |
The Highway Of Death
On February 25-26, 1991, of the 1,800 vehicles were attacked by American troops. Only 28 were armored vehicles—the rest had been cars, buses, milk trucks, tractors, ambulances, and fire trucks driven by Iraqis.
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Peter Turnley, a photojournalist who "refused to participate in the pool system" arrived at the "mile of death" and saw "incredible carnage, strewn all over on this mile stretch...and there were bodies scattered along the road."
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Bombing of Baby Milk Factory"It is not an infant formula factory... It was a biological weapons facility, of that we are sure...." — General Colin Powell. The "accurate stealth bombs" had low accuracy rates, bombing civilian centers also as in the bombing of a baby milk factory.
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