ABSTRACT
Over a sixteen-year period, the US was complicit in one genocide in Iraq and directly responsible for another. Between 1987 and 1988, Iraq committed genocide against members of its Kurdish population. It did so while the US was providing Iraq with material support in its war with Iran, some of which was used to perpetrate the genocide. From 1990 to 2003, the US was predominantly responsible for the imposition of economic sanctions that caused the deaths of at least a million Iraqis, including 500,000 children. In this chapter, I trace the role of the US in these events and present evidence of its responsibility for genocide.
