Dear CCI Readers,
For years I intellectually dismissed the issue of Sanctions.
To me they were economic and somehow weren’t really all that important. You may have had the same experience. Looking back, it seems that Sanctions may have been somehow sanitized for U.S. readership.
Along the way Sanctions became an issue for me when I realized that up to 500,000 Iraqi children died due to our U.S. Sanctions. No longer could I remain indifferent.
Those Iraqi mothers and children were, in my mind, equivalent to me and my four children.
How would I have felt knowing that lifesaving milk, food and medicine were being kept from my four dying children by a wealthy nation across the ocean? It is unbelievable and really totally inexcusable to try to imagine!
We American mothers, fathers, grandparents and single persons MUST address this issue wherever we can … by sending letters, emails or telephone calls to our newspapers, our church ministers, our city and state officials and especially our Democrat and Republican representatives. Send even a short, one paragraph note to them. It may be the input that compels them to ACT.
Please help to eradicate this horror from U.S. policy. This is something positive we can do during our COVID-19 isolation in our own homes.
SANCTIONS are a CRIME against the most helpless of any society––and we good American people must reject this criminal activity which is done and paid for by our tax dollars. It is so important to do it this year.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Please read:
As Sanctions Kill Iranians Stricken With COVID-19, Democratic Leaders Are Silent
In These Times
Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always
Boston Review