Genocide, intent & sustained policy

I appreciate the formal distinction between an ACTIVE process of genocide (e.g. Nazi Germany industrial extermination of jews, Gypsies and Slavs 1941-1945) and PASSIVE processes assoociated with immense loss of human life (failure of the US or Australia to provide life-sustaining requisites for their conquered Iraqi and Afghan subjects in gross violation of the Geneva and other conventions). 
 
However leading bioethicist, Princeton University\\\'s Professor Peter Singer (quoted as the world\\\'s most influential living philosopher) makes no distinction between ACTIVE and PASSIVE killing when it comes to moral responsibility (e.g. see: Kuhse, H. & Singer, P. (1985), Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Oxford University Press, Oxford). 
 
The passive genocide has been going on in Occupied Iraq for 4 years (1 million excess deaths, 0.5 million under-5 infant dreaths); the denial of life-sustaining requisites under sanctions (1990-2003) was associated with 1.7 million excess deaths, and 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable). This was a deliberate, sustained, manifestly INTENTIONAL policy over 15 years with these horrendous consequences - they cannot get off the hook by saying that \\\"we didn\\\'t INTEND for all these people to die\\\" or \\\"we didn\\\'t articulate mass killing as a desired end\\\" - they DID die, they are STILL dying and the reasons are clear - violent occupation and war criminal non-provision of life-sustaining requisites demanded by the Geneva Convention. 
 
Andrew Johnson\\\'s statement \\\"But Australia & the US would happily implement any health plan if you can tell them of a magic solution. Different intention.\\\" is no doubt sincerely intended but ultimately fatuous.  
 
Australian medical experts declare that the Aboriginal health budget needs to be doubled - it won\\\'t happen, it won\\\'t even be discussed and Aborigines will continue to die.  
 
Similarly, the annual per capita medical expenditure permitted in the \\\"politically correct national concentration camps\\\" that are Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan by the \\\"democratic Nazi\\\" US, UK and Australia and other US Alliance countries is a mere $64 and $23, respectively as compared to about $2,500 in the UK and Australia (WHO data) - the medical imperative is obvious, the LEGAL imperative is obvious, but there is NO action and not even public discussion because of the racism and dishonesty of mainstream politicians and media whose INTENTION is clear and sustained - occupy but without provision of life-sustaining requisites i.e. passive mass murder, passive mass paedocide, passive genocide by these latter-day racist mass murderers. 
 
In this light we can well understand the reaction of outstanding humanitarian Dr Mahathir (annual under-5 death rate in Malyasia 0.14% as in the UK versus 0.17% in the US)is understandable: \\\"We should not hang Blair if the tribunal finds him guilty but he should always carry the label as a war criminal, killer of children, liar. And so should Bush and the pocket Bush of the bushlands of Australia.”

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