Quick War Will Result in Massive Child Death Toll

General Wesley Clark, US Army, Retired, the former supreme allied commander in Europe, gives a realistic prognosis of Gulf War II: a quick military action followed by expanded Fundamentalist retribution against the United States. And this is the most optimistic scenario.

"Our Common Responsibility: The Impact of a New War on Iraq Children", a report prepared by 10 experts of the International Study Team (IST) and released Jan. 30, 2003, predicts a "massive child death toll in Iraq. The IST's report on the humanitarian situation in Iraq following the 1991 war was considered the most comprehensive of such reports. Its backers include War Child Canada, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and its Canadian affiliate Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), Oxfam Canada, World Vision Canada, and the United Church, as well as 15 other non-governmental organizations."

Here is a report (PDF format) released by the IPPNW . "A US-led attack on Iraq could kill between 48,000 and 260,000 civilians and combatants in just the first three months of conflict, according to a study by medical and public health experts. Post-war health effects could take an additional 200,000 lives. The report, Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq, was issued by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and produced by Medact, the organization's United Kingdom affiliate. It is being released today by IPPNW member groups in more than a dozen nations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in the US."