On Feb 6, 11:34=A0pm, Sean Sannity wrote:
> On Feb 6, 8:39=A0pm, Kickin' and Takin' Names
>
> wrote:
> > How many retard babies did she prevent getting aborted that I'll now
> > have to pay for?
>
> Since when did you start worrying about where your taxes go?
>
> How ironic that you're silent about the waste in govt., and gladly pay
> for lazy capable adults to sit on theires smoking menthols and
> playing their PS3, but would object toisting a handicap baby.
>
> Way to go Hitler
i guess yer for killin' aybody unless they're as retarded as you seem
to be.
yer respect fer life is touching.
kumbaya, kumbaya...
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210309.htm
Iraqi Holocaust : 2.3 Million Iraqi Excess Deaths
By Gideon Polya
21 March, 2009
Mwcnews.net
March 20, 2009 marks the 6th anniversary of the illegal, utterly
unjustified, war criminal invasion of Iraq by US, UK and Australian
forces. Post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths total 2.3
million and refugees total 6 million in a continuing Iraqi Holocaust
and Genocide.
After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the 1939-1945 World War 2 conflict
(that commenced with the Nazi German invasion of Poland in September
1939), the defeated Germans adopted a post-war and post-Holocaust
protocol that can be summarized by the acronym CAAAA (C4A),
specifically Cessation of the killing, Acknowledgment of the crimes,
Apology, Amends andertion =93never again to anyone=94.
Unfortunately, unlike the Nazi Germans, the pro-Zionist, anti-Arab
anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, imperialist war criminals of the US
Alliance are comprehensively violating the 5-point CAAAA (C4A)
protocol by continuing the war in Occupied Iraq; refusing to
acknowledge the horrendous carnage; declining to apologize; refusing
to make amends; and making it clear that they will continue and indeed
expand war in Occupied Afghanistan and the North West Provinces of
Pakistan.
On the occasion of this 6th Anniversary of the war criminal US
Alliance invasion of Iraq, decent people ask: what has been the human
cost of this unjustified and illegal war?
1. 1.3 million violent post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths.
The prestigious US organization Just Foreign Policy has a steadily
updated counter that currently estimates that 1.32 million Iraqis have
been killed as a result of the US invasion of Iraq. In their words:
=93The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater
than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a
scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led
invasion of March 2003. That study, published in prestigious medical
journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed
as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to
be killed since then ... The estimate that over a million Iraqis have
died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British
polling agency [ORB] in September 2007. Opinion Research Business
estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the
US-led invasion. This devastating human toll demands greater
recognition. It eclipses the Rwandan genocide and our leaders are
directly responsible. Little wonder they do not publicly cite
it.=94 [1].
2. 1.0 million non-violent post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths (non-
violent avoidable deaths).
In wars and occupations people die violently (from bombs and bullets)
and non-violently from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated
disease. Non-violent excess deaths can be estimated from the
difference between the actual deaths in a country and the deaths
expected if the country were at peace and under sensible governance.
Using data from the UN Population Division (2006 Revision data) one
can calculate that the non-violent post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths
total 1.0 million. [2, 3].
3. 0.6 million post-invasion under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths.
UN Population Division data indicate that post-invasion under-5 year
old Iraqi infant deaths total 0.6 million with 90% of these deaths
being avoidable. The =93annual death rate=94 is 2.2% for Occupied Iraqi
under-5 year old infants as compared to 1.6% for Occupied Palestinian
under-5 year old infants, 6.5% for Occupied Afghan under-5 year old
infants and 10% for Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in
World War 2 (for which crime Japanese generals were tried and hanged).
[3].
4. Post-invasion Iraqi refugees total 6 million out of a population of
28 million.
According to the eminent BRussells Tribunal, the number of internal
refugees within Iraq and Iraqi refugees outside Iraq total 6 million
out of a total population of about 28 million. [3, 4].
5. 2.3 million Occupied Iraqi violent and non-violent excess deaths
constitute an immense war crime.
There being no justification for the invasion, the violent Iraqi
deaths are clearly war crimes, and so too are the post-invasion non-
violent deaths from deprivation. Thus under Articles 55 and 56 of the
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in
Time of War, an Occupier is obliged to supply life-sustaining food and
medical requisites to the conquered subjects =93to the fullest extent of
the means available to it=94. However, consulting the World Health
Organization (WHO) reveals that the =93total expenditure on health per
capita=94 in Occupied Iraq is $124 as compared to $6,714 for the
occupier country, the US. [5, 6].
6. 4.2 million violent and non-violent Iraqi excess deaths and 1.8
million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths under war and Sanctions
1990-2009.
Using UN Population Division data one can estimate that there were 1.7
million non-violent excess deaths and 1.2 million under-5 year old
Iraqi infant deaths under Sanctions and bombing (1990-2003). It is
estimated that about 0.2 million Iraqis were killed in the Gulf War
(1990-1991). Thus with 2.3 million violent and non-violent Occupied
Iraqi excess deaths (2003-2009), excess deaths under Sanctions and war
(1990-2009) total 1.9 million + 2.3 million =3D 4.2 million. Under-5
year old Iraqi infant deaths under Sanctions and war (1990-2009) total
1.2 million + 0.6 million =3D 1.8 million. [2, 3].
7. 4.2 million Iraqi excess deaths (1990-2009) versus 5-6 million
Jewish deaths (1941-1945).
The 4.2 million Iraqi violent and non-violent excess deaths under US
Alliance Sanctions, war and occupation in the period 1990-2009 is of
the same order of magnitude as the carnage of the World War 2 Jewish
Holocaust. Leading historian of World War 1, World War 2, the Jewish
Holocaust and Churchill, Professor Sir Martin Gilbert, has estimated
that 5-6 million Jews died in the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust, with 1
in 6 dying of deprivation, out of a total population of 8.2 million
Jews in Nazi-occupied European countries. [7].
8. 2.3 million Occupied Iraqi excess deaths and 6 million Iraqi
refugees constitutes an Iraqi Holocaust and an Iraqi Genocide (UN
Genocide Convention).
Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states that =93In the present
Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or
religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group.=94 The 4.2 million Iraqi excess
deaths (1990-2009), 2.3 million Occupied Iraqi excess deaths and 6
million Iraqi refugees certainly constitutes an Iraqi Holocaust and
also an Iraqi Genocide according to Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention. [8].
9. US Alliance deaths in Occupied Iraq total 4,577 giving an Occupied
Iraqi/Invader military death ratio of 503.
In contrast to the 2.3 million post-invasion excess deaths in Iraq, US
Alliance deaths in the Iraq War total 4,577, this yielding an Occupied
Iraqi/Occupier military death ratio of 2.3 million/4,577 =3D 503 =96 this
death ratio being about 50 times greater than the reprisals death
ratio of 10 ordered by Adolph Hitler in March 1944 and executed with
the Nazi murder of 335 Italian men and boys in the Ardeatine Caves
Massacre in retaliation for the killing of 33 German soldiers . [9,
10].
10. US-bankrupting Iraq War accrual cost totals $3 trillion (Economics
Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz).
2001 Economics Nobel Laureate and former World Bank Chief Economist
and Vice-President, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, has estimated that the
Iraq War has come with an accrual cost of $3 trillion and has
bankrupted the US, thus significantly contributing to the US and
consequent global financial meltdown. [11].
11. Just reparations for 2.3 million Occupied Iraqi excess deaths (at
a US EPA valuation of $6.9 million per person) total $16 trillion.
The latest US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) valuation of US
lives on a risk avoidance cost basis is $6.9 million per person. If we
accept the great words of the American Declaration of Independence
that =93all men are created equal=94, then 2.3 million post-invasion
excess deaths correspond to reparations of 2.3 million persons x $6.9
million /person =3D $15.9 trillion or about US$16 trillion. [12].
The Bush War on Terror is in reality an horrendous War on Women and
Children and, more specifically, a war on Arab, Muslim, Asian and non-
European Women and Children. One can estimate from UN Population
Division data that annual under-5 infant deaths among America=92s Muslim
=93slaves=94 in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories
total 3,000 + 98,000 + 314,000 =3D 415,000, this corresponding to
415,000/0.7 =3D 593,000 non-violent excess deaths annually or about
50,000 per month. In the mere 2 months after the inauguration of
President Barack Obama, non-violent excess deaths of America=92s
=93slaves=94 in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories
have totalled about 100,000.
One is reminded of the late Harold Pinter=92s famous Nobel Prize
Acceptance Speech in which he castigated Obama=92s predecessors in the
War on Terror, Bush and Blair: =93We have brought torture, cluster
bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery,
degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing
freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many people do you have
to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a
war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have
thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before
the International Criminal Court of Justice.=94
As Harold Pinter says, =93How many people do you have to kill before you
qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One
hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought=94 - and
therefore it is just that Obama as well as Bush and Blair be arraigned
before the International Criminal Court of Justice.
Months ago on election night, Ralph Nader queried whether Barack Obama
would become an Uncle Sam and act in the interests of the American
people or become an Uncle Tom, and be slavishly beholden to the
warmongering American Establishment. After 2 months we have our answer
in blood. With 100,000 dead Muslim =93slaves=94 under his belt already in
just 2 months of his Administration, Obama can be seen more as a Simon
Legree, the brutal slave owner who had poor, good Uncle Tom beaten to
death in Harriet Beecher Stowe=92s novel =93Uncle Tom=92s Cabin=94. The onl=
y
thing that can stop the continuing active and passive mass murder in
Obama=92s American Empire will be resolute Sanctions and Boycotts
against the US and the war criminal , democratic Nazi countries of the
US Alliance.
[1]. Just Foreign Policy: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.=
html
.
[2] Gideon Polya, =93Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since
1950=94 (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007): http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya
.
[3]. UN Population Division: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ .
[4]. BRussells Tribunal, Le Feyt Declaration (2008): http://www.brusselstri=
bunal.org/
.
[5]. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm .
[6]. WHO: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ .
[7]. Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph,
London).
[8]. UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow
/genocide/convention.html .
[9]. Coalition casualties in Iraq: http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
.
[10]. Ardeatine Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeatine_massacre
.
[11]. Australian ABC Lateline interview with Professor Joseph
Stiglitz, =93Award winning economist says America has bankrupted itself
with the Iraq war=94: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2236161.=
htm
.
[12]. Gideon Polya, MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/23939/42/
.
Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130
works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge
pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive
Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and
is currently writing a book on global mortality ---
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