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4 MILLION post-1990 Iraq excess deaths per anti-Arab anti-Semitic Bush Wars, Sanctions - now IRAN?
by Open-Publishing - Sunday 30 September 20071 comment
Wars and conflicts International USA
It was recently reported by Mainstream media that George Bush had rejected a pre-Iraq War offer by Saddam Hussein to leave with a mere $1 billion (see: (see the circa 27-28 September 2007 UK Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li... , UK Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai... ), and the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... ).
Decent folk are OBLIGED to examine the human and financial cost of the Iraq War in comparison with this $1 billion offer that could have prevented it if Bush were not INTENT on invading and occupying Iraq for OIL and HEGEMONIC CONTROL. Some relevant key statistics are listed below for your convenience and in the interests of Humanity.
1. $0.5 trillion cost accounting cost of the Iraq War to the US so far (see: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/C... ).
2. $2.3 trillion accrual cost of the Iraq War (according to 2001 US economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) and his colleague Professor Linda Bilmes (Harvard University) (see: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publ... ).
3. $2.5 trillion accrual cost of the War on Terror overall (according to 2001 US economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) and his colleague Professor Linda Bilmes (Harvard University) (see: http://www.newstatesman.com/200703120024 and "The Cost Of War": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/130... ).
4. 4,101 US Coalition deaths and 28,000 US soldiers wounded so far (see: http://icasualties.org/oif/ ).
5. 1.2 million post-invasion VIOLENT Occupied Iraqi deaths were recently reported by the expert UK ORB market analysis company (see: http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_d... ) as compared to 0.8 million post-invasion VIOLENT deaths estimated (as of September 2007) from the latest medical literature data (see: http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/i... ) and 0.7-0.8 million NON-VIOLENT post-invasion excess deaths (deaths from deprivation and estimated from UN agency data: for details see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/168... ). The ORB data have overwhelmingly NOT been reported by Mainstream media except for the Los Angeles Times and the UK Guardian/Observer.
6. 0.5 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths - 90% avoidable and largely due to gross US Coalition violation of the Geneva Convention that unequivocally demands that the Occupying Power does everything “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” to keep its conquered subjects alive (see Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm ); the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” permitted in Occupied Iraq by the US Coalition is $135 (2004) as compared to $19 (Occupied Afghanistan) $2,560 (UK), $3,123 (Australia) and $6,096(the US) (see WHO: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ).
7. More than 4.2 million Iraqi refugees have left their homes with more than 2 million fleeing the country (according to UNHCR: http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html ).
8. 1990-1991 Gulf War Iraqi violent deaths total 0.2 million (see: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_... ).
9. 1990-2003 Sanctions War excess Iraqi deaths total 1.7 million (see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/, http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/137... ).
10. 1990-1991 Sanctions War Iraqi under-5 infant deaths totalled 1.2 million (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes; see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/137... ).
11. Total post-invasion Occupied Iraqi excess deaths now (September 2007) total 1.5-2.0 million (see: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswir... ).
12. Total 1990-2007 excess deaths due to US war on Iraq total 0.2 million + 1.7 million + 2.0 million = 3.9 million out of an average 1990-2007 population of about 24 million (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/170... ) .
This carnage has caused nearly 4 million post-1990 Iraqi excess deaths due to US war, sanctions and occupation out of an average 1990-2007 Iraq population of about 24 million. Just compare this continuing atrocity with the Nazi German Jewish Holocaust – 5 million killed, 1 million excess deaths from starvation and deprivation i.e. about 6 million excess deaths out of a Jewish population in Nazi Europe of about 9 million and a total world Jewish population at the time of about 15 million (see: . Gilbert, M. (1969), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London) and Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph, London)).
The nearly 4 million US-inflicted post-1990 Iraqi excess deaths is commensurate with those of the Jewish Holocaust, the WW2 Nazi German-inflicted Jewish Genocide (6 million deaths) and of the largely UN-REPORTED, “forgotten”, man-made, British-inflicted Bengali Holocaust (Bengal Famine, Bengali Genocide) of WW2 British India (4 million deaths) (see “The Forgotten Holocaust – the 1943/44 Bengal Famine”: http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... and “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ).
The Iraqis are mostly SEMITES from the HEARTLAND of a 7,000 year-old SEMITIC culture at the COREof GLOBAL civilization. What we are seeing is anti-Semitic, Bush-ite UK-US-Australian-US Alliance Holocaust Commission, Genocide Commission, Holocaust Denial and Genocide Denial.
This continuing atrocity of anti-Semitic, Bush-ite Anglo-American Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial demands comprehensive International and Intranational Sanctions and Boycotts against the individuals, corporations and countries complicit in this horrendous, on-going crime against Humanity - but it is IGNORED by racist, holocaust-ignoring Bush-ite Mainstream media.
Please tell EVERYONE of this horrendous carnage - silence and inaction will permit extension of the Bush Wars in Occupied Iraq (population 27 million, 2 million post-invasion excess deaths) and Occupied Afghanistan (population 26 million, 2.5 million post-invasion excess deaths) to remote, peaceful IRAN.
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30 September 2007, 04:37
Everything the US government has done since the coup pulled by the Bush cabal or junta is not just illegal, but a supreme war crime. Bush has flagrantly violated the Geneva Conventions with 100% impunity so far and he will continue to do so. If someone told me 15 years ago this would happen in America, I would not have believed them. It seems we are stuck in a horrible dream (nightmare) that we cannot stop. The traitors we elected to get us out of this mess are part of the PTB that put us here. The truth is, all those big shots are making such huge profits there is no way they’ll bring this cash cow to a stand still. Bush has essentially created a lawless society for the ultra wealthy - they now have a license to steal from commoners, while we die for their freedom to rape US. This is a world wide take over that has not gone unnoticed by the Russians and Chinese, who are undoubtly forming their solution to our unbridled aggression. Where will it end? Our only chance is for the small guys at the bottom who do all the work to do what is right for mankind, not what they are told to do to victimize innocent people. Like the heros who narced out the B52 story! We must collectively tell Mr. Cheney to go f*ck himself. Have courage, do not quit, this is no trial run. Someone in the military must have the balls to pull a coup on Bush, arrest all the neocons from Israel at the Pentagon/White House and take over the country from this band of thieves. Then the violators of the Geneva Convention must be brought to justice or else international law is meaningless - it doesn’t apply to Bush, he is above international law. The proof is that nobody has the courage to stand up and act. Where are our leaders? Why are we surrounded by cowards and traitors? I think that our military is being set up to be "sacrificed" very similar to Pearl Harbor but much worse. This time, we have the power to alter history in OUR favor for a change, let’s do it.