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Why is Antiwar.com hiding the Iraq Genocide?

The Cat's Dream + Henk Ruyssenaars | 08.10.2007 12:18 | G8 Germany 2007 | Iraq | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Already before the last illegal US/UK invasion of Iraq, according to UNICEF at least 1.5 million people in Iraq were killed by the effects of war and sanctions. If you take that figure and the figures released by ORB, the British polling company, amounting to 1.2 million dead Iraqis, you're up in at least 2.7 million people killed by the US/UK/NATO war machine and it's collaborators.


THE US/UK WAR MACHINE HAS AT LEAST KILLED 2.7 MILLION PEOPLE IN IRAQ

Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION - October 8th - 2007 - In the statement below, Gabriele Zamparini, who is a writer, filmmaker and activist in the UK, in his appeal from my point of view even uses body count figures for Iraq which are much too low. The shame for Antiwar.com, hiding the Iraq Genocide, is evident. Everybody, by the way, of any nationality who supports this genocide for the US/UK junta's power and profit, is guilty of war crimes, as war crimes trials later on will show.

UNDERSTAND THESE HUMANOIDS?

Human beings, knowing what decency is, will never be able to understand how these humanoids can commit their genocides, and just go on and on. - [ http://www.serendipity.li/bush/beyond_insanity.htm ] - An absolutely disgusting example of this way of reacting was given by former US/UK junta's secretary Madeleine Albright-Korbel, and her appalling and inhuman comment on half a million dead children in Iraq which UNICEF had reported, was like this: "We think the price is worth it." On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

They'll never use it, the pro-war mainstream propaganda media: it's the same as Bush's interview on the propaganda channel ABC. Bush - among other stupidities - said about all the dead in Iraq that there were NO WMD's, but that many were killed: "It was worth it." - Url.:   http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

Denis L. Halliday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (1997-1998) and H.C. von Sponeck who was the UN Humanitarian Coordinator For Iraq For Iraq (1998-2000) both quit in disgust: the 'sanctions genocide' was getting too bad.

In July 1989 (before the sanctions), 387 children per month under the age of five died in Iraq.

In July 1998 (after the sanctions), 6,495 children per month under the age of five died, a 16-fold increase from before the sanctions.

SANCTIONS KILL!

''The U.S. is at war with Iraq -- make no mistake about that. And it is brutal, genocidal war -- make no mistake about that. And it is substantially the result of the convoluted, but real nevertheless, U.S./Israeli/Saudi alliance to control the entire Middle East region - - make no mistake about that either.

Iraq is being collectively tortured for its defiance of American and Israeli domination plans for the region. Even official U.N. reports document that nearly 1 million Iraqis -- mostly the young and the elderly -- have died in the past eight years as a direct result of American policies. Other expert estimates put the number at somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million -- half under the age of 5.

When compared to the American population, this would be the equivalent of some 12 to 20+ million Americans killed since 1990!'' - [end quote]

More information - if you can stand it - at Url.:  http://www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/index.html?page=/iraqinfo/sanctions/sanctions.html

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GABRIELE ZAMPARINI - ACTION ALERT: WHY IS ANTIWAR.COM HIDING THE IRAQ GENOCIDE?

The best estimate indicates that more than a million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the illegal US-led invasion and occupation. The average American believed approximately 9,900 Iraqis had died as a result of the war according to a February 2007 AP poll. The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.

Antiwar.com's page Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation includes a big Iraq Body Count's banner and other IBC references, however that page does NOT include:

· the studies conducted by the world leaders in the field of epidemiology and published as peer-reviewed scientific papers in the world's leading medical journal, the Lancet;

· the recently published ORB poll suggesting a total of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (i.e. as a result of violence rather than a natural death such as old age).

In these past three years many people have written to Antiwar.com about this issue without receiving any reply.

A few days ago I had an e-mail exchange with the Antiwar.com's staff...

[continued] - Url.:  http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2007/10/action-alert-why-is-antiwarcom-hiding.htm

Thank you, best wishes,

Gabriele Zamparini

Zamparini at Url.:  http://thecatsdream.com

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