Saddam Hussein’s crimes are dwarfed by 2.2 million death Coalition carnage in Iraq

Saddam Hussein’s crimes are DWARFED by a 2.2 million Coalition carnage in Iraq. According to the latest, Web-accessible UN and UNICEF data, the "under-5 infant deaths per 1,000 births" in IRAQ vs SYRIA were 200 vs 170 (1953), 50 vs 44 (1990), 125 vs 16 (2004) i.e. infant mortality DECREASED enormously under Saddam but INCREASED hugely after 1990 due to Western intervention. The post-1990 under-5 infant mortality under war-criminal UK-US sanctions, bombs and occupation totals 1.6 million; the post-1990 excess deaths now total 2.2 million.

According to the latest UN Population Division data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/) and UNICEF data (see: http://www.unicef.org/index.html ), by 1990 “under-5 infant deaths per 1,000 births” reached a MINIMUM of 50 in oil-rich Iraq under Saddam Hussein as compared to 44 in its neighbour, resource-poor Syria (from catastrophic high values of about 170-200 in the immediately post-colonial era). However Western-imposed Sanctions immediately reversed this trend, leading to doubled infant mortality and avoidable mortality for a dozen years; the ultimate US-led invasion and occupation further increased mortality so that by 2004 “under-5 infant deaths per 1,000 births” had reached 125 in UK-US-occupied IRAQ as compared to 16 in SYRIA.

The post-1990 under-5 infant deaths in Iraq total 1.6 million (90% of them avoidable) and the post-1990 excess mortality (avoidable mortality) now totals 2.2 million. Similarly, in Occupied Afghanistan the post-invasion under-5 infant deaths and excess deaths total 1.4 million and 1.8 million, respectively (see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ ).

For a detailed account of how Saddam Hussein’s crimes PALE in comparison with the 2.2 million post-1990 Coalition carnage see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5948/26/. For related articles on "Newsvine" see: http://gpolya.newsvine.com/mortality .

The Coalition invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are immense crimes against humanity. The US continues to threaten Syria, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela - countries that have all performed extremely well in reducing infant mortality and improving life expectancy and quality of life for their citizens - the gratuitous invasion of such countries by the US or its surrogates would be PURE EVIL.

"Thou shall not kill" - and the avoidable, passive mass murder of utterly innocent infants by the UK-US-led Coaltion in Iraq and Afghanistan is utterly beyond the Pale. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people around the world are obliged to INFORM OTHERS and to ACT ETHICALLY by exercising “free market choice” through avoiding (where possible) goods and services of the war criminal Coalition.

For further background to this human catastrophe see: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpo... and http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... .

It is extraordinary that EVERY DAY some 1,200 infants die AVOIDABLY in the US-occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories, utterly IGNORED by a World mis-informed by lying, racist mainstream media. Please inform everyone.