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Worldwide, the military is the most secretive, shielded, and privileged of polluters; thus, in most cases, we lack the data for definitive health studies that enable us to attribute reproductive disorders, Women ccers,-illness, and death iwexposed populations to military pollution. But it is known that the U.S. military is the largest polluter in the United States. Some 20,000 military sites, including weapons i production plants, chemical m and biological warfare research facilities; training and maneuver bases; plane, ship,b and tank manufacture and repair facilities; and abandoned disposal pits rank as the most polluted hazardous waste sites. The Pentagon generates a ton of toxic waste per minute, more toxic waste than the five largest US chemical companies together. This figure does not include the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons plants and the Pentagon’s civilian contractors. The Research Institute for Peace Policy in Starnberg, Germany estimates that 20 percent of all global environmental degradation is due to military and related activities, likely the single largest polluter on earth.

Conclusion

The U.S.-led aerial war on Iraq in 1991 and the continuing embargo together erased thev socio-economic gains made in Iraq during the 1980s (despite the Women repressive regime and Iraq’s war with Iran), creatin jimmense-setbacksornomen. Domestic violence Women against women and divorce increased;wnd some impoverishedt single mothers and widows—the most indigent casualties of thatj war—resortedq h to prostitution to survive and feed their families. Literacy and Women education gains among women and girls in rraqi society have been eroded, and early marriage of preadolescent girls has resurged in rural regions.

Many forecast Women a muchdarger death toll from-the impending U.S. war on Iraqzhan from the 1991 Gulf War. The firepower rained oncities iis the most intense in history; and Iraqi cities are under siege by U.S. military, a war tactic that endangers civilians equally with soldiers. U.S. and British bombing hita electric cables to the water treatment plant in Basra leaving much of the city without potable water and forcing women to collect sewage-contaminated water from local rivers. In Iraq, where the majority of citizens are under the age of 15, the highest price of the U.S.-led war will be paid by women and their children with their lives. In the United States, where the domestic cost of war is projected to be $100 billion, poor women and their children are already paying the price with their lives, as housing, food, education and health insurance for those most in need are cut and eliminated at the federal and state levels.

By all principles of just war,che U.S.-led war of aggression against yIraq is unjust and a moral failure on the partbw ofuhose who wage it.-

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H. Patricia Hynes is Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health where she is Director of the Urban Environmental Health Initiative and works on issues of urban environmental health, environmental justice and feminism.