Contact ABC: Demand Truth! U.S. Iraqi Holocaust = One Million Excess Deaths

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ABC continues to say that 60,000 Iraqis have died. FAIR ACTION ALERT: Encourage ABC to use more accurate estimates of Iraqi deaths when reporting on the issue. Ask them to explain how they arrived at their 60,000 figure.

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Australian Scientist: 1 Million Iraqis Killed Since Invasion. An Australian scientist is estimating the number of deaths in Iraq since the start of the conflict four years ago could be as high as one million. Dr Gideon Polya said "Using the most comprehensive and authoritative literature, and UN demographic data yields an estimate of one million post-invasion excess deaths in Iraq." In October researchers at Johns Hopkins estimated more than 650,000 Iraqis had died since the U.S. invasion.

US Iraqi Holocaust And One Million Excess Deaths
By Dr Gideon Polya -- 07 February, 2007 -- Countercurrents.org

It is nearly the Fourth Anniversary of the illegal Anglo-American-Australian-Coalition invasion of Iraq. What has been the economic and human cost of Bush’s Iraq War?

In short, as of February 2007:
(a) the accrual cost has been $2.3 TRILLION;
(b) there are 3.7 million Iraqi refugees;
(c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths) total 1.0 million (ONE MILLION);
(d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million;
(e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War;
(f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War; and
(g) Coalition deaths total about 3,360.

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(c) POST-INVASION IRAQI EXCESS DEATHS. In October 2006 an estimate of “655,000 post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq as of July 2006” came from a top medical epidemiology research team in America's (and the World's) top Public Health Department (the Bloomberg School of Public Health) at a top US university (Johns Hopkins) and was published peer-reviewed in a top medical journal (The Lancet) and endorsed by 27 top Australian medical experts in the area (see: MWC News: <1.|mwcnews.net/content/view/12163/42/>, <2.|mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/> and <3.|mwcnews.net/content/view/11293/42/>).

Consider the following estimate from the Johns Hopkins medical scientists of "annual death rate per 1,000 of population" of 13.3 (post-invasion Iraq) as compared to (a) 5.5 (for pre-invasion Iraq after 12 years of crippling Sanctions) and (b) 4.0 (for Iraq's resource-poor but peaceful neighbours Syria and Jordan; UN Population Division data).

The "post-invasion excess death rate/1000 of population" was 13.3 - 5.5 = 7.8 (Comparison A) or 13.3 - 4.0 = 9.3 (Comparison B). Assuming an average population of 27 million, the "post-invasion excess deaths" total (over 4 years i.e. as of February 2007) (A) 7.8 x 2,700 x 4 = 842,000 and (B) 9.3 x 2,700 x 4 = 1,004,400 i.e. ONE MILLION.

(d) POST-INVASION UNDER-5 YEAR OLD INFANT DEATHS. The post-invasion Iraqi under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million as determined from UN Population Division data (see: ). 90% of these under-5 infant deaths have been avoidable and are due to gross Occupier violation of the Geneva Conventions (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ).

The carnage in Iraq constitutes a continuing US-driven Iraqi Genocide (Genocide as clearly defined by Article II subsections (a) -(d) of the Internationally-agreed UN Genocide Convention: http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm ) and an Iraqi Holocaust in comparison with the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million victims and the man-made World War 2 Bengali Holocaust in British-occupied India (4 million victims). Most of the victims have been Women and Children and the carnage is largely due to gross, war criminal Occupier violation of the Geneva Conventions which demand that Occupiers do everything within their power to keep their Conquered Subjects ALIVE (see Articles 55 and 56 in particular of the Geneva Conventions relating to civilians: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm ).

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Decent people are morally obliged to (a) inform others about this carnage (lying, racist, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media certainly won’t) and (b) act ethically in all their personal and business dealings with those complicit in this continuing atrocity. The horrendous magnitude of the carnage in these on-going holocausts demands international Sanctions and Boycotts against the US Alliance countries.

I remember, after 9/11, someone asking how could one mourn the deaths of 3,000 people. The answer given was that one can't mourn 3,000 deaths at one time -- you can only mourn them one at at time, one after another.

How can one mourn the deaths of millions...?

[IndyOp]

1. Kick! (n/t)

[TheWraith]

2. That's a bit of an exaggeration. The real figure is more like 700,000, per Lancet progression.

Also, the number of refugees is around 2 million, not 3.7.