"The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did... On 15 March 2018, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies headlined at Alternet, āThe Staggering Death Toll in Iraqā and wrote that āour calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion,ā and linked to solid evidence, backing up their estimate.... On 6 February 2020, BusinessInsider bannered āUS taxpayers have reportedly paid an average of $8,000 each and over $2 trillion total for the Iraq war aloneā, and linked to the academic analysis that supported this estimate. The U.S. regimeās invasive war, which the Bush gang perpetrated against Iraq, was also a crime against the American people (though Iraqis suffered far more from it than we did)."
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Eric Zuesse, Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq, American Herald Tribune, (16 May 2020)
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