As for the great human catastrophe in Iraq, the bereft hospitals, the children dying from thirst andgastroenteritis at a rate greater than before the invasion, with almost 8 per cent of infants sufferingextreme malnutrition, says Unicef; as for a crisis in agriculture which, says the Food and AgricultureOrganisation, is on the verge of collapse: these do not exist. Like the American-driven, medieval-type siegethat destroyed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives over 12 years, there is no knowledge of this in America:therefore it did not happen. The Iraqis are, at best, unpeople; at worst, tainted, to be hunted. "Forevery GI killed," said a letter given prominence in the New York Daily News late last month, "20Iraqis must be executed." In the past week, Task Force 20, an "elite" American unit chargedwith hunting evildoers, murdered at least five people as they drove down a street in Baghdad, and that wastypical.