To the editors:
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When the war ended I received a couple of letters at the local office of Physicians for Social Responsibility criticizing us for “grossly overestimating” the number of casualties we thought could occur if war broke out. In retrospect we were wrong only on the U.S. casualties; if anything, we underestimated the number of Iraqi casualties.
Dr. Cainkar makes a very important point when she describes the result of Allied bombing as “biological war.” This devastation of Iraqi society continues its ugly way with the continuation of sanctions. Numerous independent reports are showing the truth of Cainkar’s descriptions, and many organizations, including International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War–with which PSR is affiliated–have called for an end of those sanctions.
