"Seven years of mayhem in Iraq" is an appropriate title. Bush's "shock and awe" attack on a defenseless Iraq has been a holocaust for the people of that nation. Almost a quarter of the population has been either killed, horribly maimed, festering in refugee camps or driven into exile. The Iraqi cities, homes, libraries, hospitals, sanitary systems and power grids were destroyed in the attack. Many parts of Iraqi cities still do not have clean water and electricity. In compliance with the orders of the American occupiers, the Iraqi people are not even permitted to know how many Iraqis have been killed by the Americans. Every day the Iraqis venture out into the streets of their own cities and towns, they run the risk of either being shot to death by the American occupation forces or being blown apart by the insurgents. What have the Iraqi people done to deserve such a holocaust from America? The American occupiers are not bothered by such a question. They coat over the death and destruction they brought to Iraq by pointing to the "democratic election" their puppet regime has held. This is like spreading sand over the blood and body parts of slaughtered Christians in the Roman colosseum as the emperor smiles. In a way, America has turned the whole of Iraq into their version of the bloody games held in the Colosseum, but with modern weapons. And, what is the response of the American people to their military's destruction and slaughter of Iraq? They have none. It's as if they are speechless at the sheer brutality of their own government. I do have to credit to America for waging a clever pr campaign to distract the world's attention from the horror they visited upon Iraq: "see, see, the Iraqis are holding an election, God be praised"; or, "we got Saddam". America will not escape responsibility for the destruction and death they brought to Iraq. A nation that lives by propaganda and military strikes will soon decay and fall to her knees.

Thank you RT for your continue reporting of tragedy of Iraq. I think the reporter could have said the it was the most respected medical journal, the Lancet in collaboration with the University of Johns Hopkins, that came with the estimate of a million Iraq dead and that was four years ago-which means that means millions more Iraqis are dead and displaced in the publication of that report. However, the United States will never take responsibility of the Holocaust it brought to Iraq but this moral bankruptcy will haunt the United States for generations to come. This was operation shame. Look at the American soldier in this story; he tried to shift the blame of this shameful war to the Iraqis even as the whole world can see that the U.S come to Iraq not bring peace; that the U.S vandalised this ancient nation even as it builds 1 billion dollar embassy in the heart of Baghdad! The Americans came to Iraq to vandalise the national culture, architecture, the social fabric, the very soul of Iraq. No matter what CNN and the rest of the U.S corporate media tells to the American people, the U.S has committed genocide in Iraq and this war crime ahs been committed in the name of the American people.

Some American people did respond at first. There were many protests against the war in 2003, some of them violent. They did not get a lot of coverage and besides, the government ignored the e-mails and protests, except to blame the participants for subversion. But for most Americans, just trying to survive on 2 or 3 jobs, the only news we heard was a few minutes of 'headline news' from their television sets or the radio. The major media outlets were so cowed and submissive to the government that they refused to show the truth in Iraq, or they labeled protesters as 'unpatriotic' and 'insulting to the memory of the thousands who died September 11'. They kept up with that nonsense even after Bush admitted Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11. The major media outlets were even caught taking press releases from the government (and business) and using them verbatim as 'news' stories. It did not matter because the disclosures either did not make it to the headlines, or they disappeared after one broadcast. Those American people who did not get suspicious and look for news from alternative sources remained ignorant. Therefore they did not protest what had been done in Iraq. They had to actively look for the truth, and who had time for that? 'Out of sight, out of mind.' Now many more people are increasingly aware and the disgust over the Iraq war is growing. Also, some of the media outlets are remembering they have backbones and are starting to ask harder questions. It is a little late for all the dead in Iraq and in America, but it is a start at last.

Try to imagine what will be doing the western media and politicians if China in Tibet or Russia in Georgia were massacring Tibetans or Georgians, the way America and its NATO puppets are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan (sometime going over-border in Iran and Pakistan). When will the United-Nations condemn those undeclared wars ? What is the use to have Russia and China in the Security-Council !In seven years, they have done nothing (Not even be able to stop the drugs flow in their country). Do you honestly believe that the US-NATO consorcium will have stay silent if the situation would have been reversed ? In one side we have arrogant imperialists acting like nazis, on the other side, we have cowards and in the middle we have hundreds of thousands innocents victims who die or are mutilated for a life-time...Bravo Humanity !!! God save America ! Sorry Future Generations ! JCM

Meslin You are asking important questions regarding the UNSC and the role of China and Russia in particular. However, to be fair, in 2003, Russia was not strong enough to oppose the U.S invasion of Iraq. Russia is updating its own military capabilities and China made economic quid pro quo with the U.S abstaining voting against the 2003 U.S invasion against Iraq but China will not repeat the same mistake with the U.S new plan to attack Iran. The U.N has been discredited but in the absence of new and credible institution, which can take its place, we have no choice but to work with the UN.

Doublespeak Tank You for your comment. I may agree with it but if I recall the events: Mr De Villepin and Chirac, from weak little France refused to go along with America on that illegal adventure. Why did not Russia and China step in the ban-wagon to more seriously influence the Security Council. There is only one way to discuss with Americans: The MONEY-WAY: You mention a well coordinated boycott of everything which is American (as they do so well) and you will see how quickly they will react positively. Unfortunately, at the present time; one needs some courage to do it). Do you realise how many life (including American) will have been saved ? Since then France has elected a "collabo" puppet of the Bushs and US neo-cons and many European nations have joined the butchery. Nevertheless, it is never too late to do something good about such an insanity...Sincerely. JCM

Meslin I do appreciate your sentiment for French resistance to the 2003 the U.S invasion of Iraq. I do remember watching Dominique De Villepin’s famous speech in the UN SC meeting few days before the U.S launched its war against Iraq. But this was all for show. The French state had no plan of opposing the U.S invasion of Iraq. De Villepin and French state soon its true own reactionary sentiment for rather than leading the world into new direction, French State found a new enemy: “the veiled Muslim women” inside France. That was a clever way to alienate the Muslim world and kill any hope of forging a new multi-polar stand against unilateral American imperialism. On the other hand, Russia is the only nation that continue challenge the U.S unilateral global military imperative. If the French state is serious in opposing the U.S unilateralism, it must leave the NATO bloc at once and support Russia to counter weight U.S global military aggression. Russia could not have prevented, in the 2003, the U.S invasion of Iraq but today it can prevent the U.S invasion of Iran. Today, Russia is much stronger than in 2003. On the other hand, France may support U.S war against Iran and that means today France might not oppose U.S Unilateral wars of aggression that brought the greatest human suffering since WWII.

Usa doing in Iraq is pure genocide ...Iraq was not threat to anyone and did not have WMD(what a lie)as was claimed! Usa is not democratic and free as they claim-if they are they will not wage so many wars(from 1945 til today) and kill 10 of millions innorcent people around the world without any valid reason...If Usa citizens got a really say in making policy(like many others around the world include ones labeled by Us as extreme, evil states ) those things will never happend! Pictures and films of Usa killings around the world are the same one of Nazis-your government only dont have a millitary uniforms(wining the eyes) and you talk nice(wining the minds) but your crimes are the same(I think worse-you prey on unprotected nations in so call "peace" time) and also you will never win "the hearts" becouse you can not trick anyone anymore...World is aware of your true nature! In Alemange Caitungs(no 1 newspaper in Germany of that time-just before WW2) Hitler himself promise that he will "free Europe"( and the rest of the world) to..... You indeed "free" Iraqis from everything...Thanke you!

So how are Chechnya and South Ossetia? A lot more Russians are going to die because of them than Americans are because of Iraq. If you want to see genocide, it will be coming to your hometown soon. You're no better than the scum in the US that want to turn their backs on the rest of the world. But at least we have two oceans between us and the people who are destroying civilization. You don't.

this report is all well intentioned; but it is a waste of money and space because we already know all of this. RT needs to interrogate what Russia is doing or not doing to contain and contest the march of thuggish neocons. But RT is doing nothing like that.