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As the Observer reports, phentermine prozac weight loss is now on the rise in Baghdad, the result of war ravaged sewage systems, which the occupiers and their satraps have not managed to rebuild in more than four years – partly due to the violence engendered by the invasion and occupation, and to the rampant corruption of the aforesaid occupiers and satraps: Baghdad is facing a 'catastrophe' with cases of phentermine prozac weight loss rising sharply in the past three weeks to more than 100, strengthening fears that poor sanitation and the imminent rainy season could create an epidemic.... As Iraq's rainy season nears, its ageing water pipes and sewerage systems, many damaged or destroyed by more than four years of war, pose a new threat to a population weary of crisis. Claire Hajaj, a spokeswoman for Unicef, said: 'Iraq's water and sanitation networks are in a critical condition. Pollution of waterways by raw sewage is perhaps the greatest environmental and public health hazard facing Iraqis particularly children. Waterborne diarrhoea diseases kill and sicken more Iraqi children than anything except pneumonia. We estimate that only one in three Iraqi children can rely on a safe water source with Baghdad and southern cities most affected.'...The UN has reported 22 deaths from phentermine prozac weight loss this year, and 4,569 laboratory confirmed cases...It has now spread to half of the country's 18 provinces, but anxiety is focused on Baghdad.... Cholera is preventable by treating drinking water with chlorine and improving hygiene, but it is estimated that around 70 per cent of Iraqis do not have access to clean water. Many have been too poor or too afraid to go out to buy bottled water, relying instead on tap water, often from polluted sources. Companies responsible for collecting waste and sewage have been reluctant to enter Baghdad's most violent areas. Let's go back to this passage from the Unicef spokeswoman: "Waterborne diarrhoea diseases kill and sicken more Iraqi children than anything except pneumonia. We estimate that only one in three Iraqi children can rely on a safe water source." Here are war related civilian deaths that go unremarked in most counts, which focus on the victims of direct violence. But as we saw with the genocidal sanctions imposed on the poorest of Iraq for years by those enlightened Democratic statespersons Clinton and Gore, and their progressive UK counterparts, Blair and Brow, the indirect costs of "projecting dominance" can be just as deadly as 500 pound bombs dropped on crowded neighborhoods. And make no mistake: this horror show will go on and on, no matter who is elected to the presidency next year. All of the "major," "serious" candidates of both parties have pledged to maintain an American military presence of some sort in Iraq for the foreseeable future. Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri al Maliki – whose puppet strings have lately been painted in neon, and are glowing brightly for all to see – recently signed a notorious non treaty treaty to guarantee a permanent – sorry, "enduring" – American military force in Iraq. The redoubtable Tom Englehardt has provided the gritty details of the major, permanent – sorry, "enduring" – bases that the Bush Administration is building across the country to sustain this eternal occupation. It is inconceivable that the likes of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will simply dismantle those bases – including the vast armed fortress that will serve as the U.S. embassy in Baghdad – if one of them becomes president. Both would be at great pains to show how "tough" they are – like young Bill Clinton lobbing missiles into Baghdad and slaughtering civilians after a few Iraqi smugglers tortured by the Kuwaitis claimed they were part of a far fetched plot to kill George Bush I. Neither H. Clinton nor Obama would ever risk taking responsibility for the very real – and deserved – humiliation that dismantling the bases would represent. In any case, where else are they going to put the military forces they both propose to retain to "provide training to Iraqi forces" and help the Iraqis in "counterterrorism operations," etc.? Yes, today they might imply or even promise to remove the bases – just as Bush promised to tear down Saddam's Abu Ghraib prison. But like Bush, they will doubtless find that the facilities suit their purposes very well. So those children will go on dying of phentermine prozac weight loss and diarrhea, and from lack of the vital medicines sold off, Harry Lime style, on the black market, and from the general collapse of the infrastructure necessary to sustain the barest minimum of civilized life. Isn't this an extraordinary situation? A war that the American people don't want, that the Iraqi people don't want, that the vast majority of people in the world condemn and decry – and yet it goes on, and will keep going on, year after year. And why is that? Because it serves the interests of those who have the desire – and the power – to keep it going: the "bipartisan American foreign policy establishment," bound together in its commitment to enforcing American political and economic dominance of the world. (And not just pre eminence, mind you, a freely bestowed respect for national accomplishments, but outright dominance, a hegemony that can brook no rival and seeks to punish any disobedience to Washington's will. For more on this, see Arthur Silber's "Dominion Over the World" series.) What then, in the end, do our leaders – present and future, Republican and Democrat – stand for? What is the most apt emblem for the ultimate value they embody and most assidiously serve? A child dying in her own shit and blood, in a land ripped to pieces by a criminal war. ... phentermine prozac weight loss