Bush-ites, racism, mass murder

MWC NEWS readers have a commonality in understanding English. Thus we all understand that racism means discrimination on the basis of race and doing unto others what you would not dream of doing to your own kind; mass murder means actively or passively bringing about the demise of large numbers of people; and holocaust denial means exactly that – denying the actuality of holocausts including mass murder events.

From the latest expert medical and UN data it can be readily estimated that the Bush wars have so far killed 3 million people post-invasion in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories, 1,000 (one thousand) times more numerically than those murdered on 9/11. Those who nevertheless STILL knowingly support Bush are complicit in racism, mass murder and holocaust denial.

A top US medical epidemiology/biometrics research group led by Dr Gilbert Burnham and Dr Les Roberts has recently published their estimate of 655,000 post-invasion Iraq excess deaths in the top medical journal The Lancet (October, 2006).

Excess deaths (avoidable deaths; deaths that did not have to happen) can be defined as the difference between the actual deaths in a country and deaths expected from a peaceful, decently-run country with the same demographics. 

This estimate is consistent with estimates based on data from 3 (three) quite separate alternative authoritative sources, specifically from the UN Population Division (563,000), UNICEF (639,000) and from The Lancet (October, 2004; primary data; 791,000)(see MWC News ).

Indeed the current estimate in The Lancet (2006) is a considerable UNDER-ESTIMATE because comparison of their post-invasion Iraq  “annual death rate” estimate of 1.33% with that of 0.4% in Iraq’s impoverished but peaceful neighbours Jordan and Syria yields an estimate of 887,000 post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths; deaths that should not have happened).

Using this latter figure for Iraq and a UN-derived estimate for Afghanistan, the post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan total 0.9 million and 2.1 million, respectively – a total of 3.0 million deaths, 1,000 (one thousand) times the number of people murdered on 9/11.

These estimates are consonant with independent UN data on post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, currently 437,000 and 1,665,000, respectively, for Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan.

To this death toll we should add 0.5 million post-2001 global opiate drug-related deaths (including 1,600 Australians, 3,200 Britons, 1,200 Scots, 3,000 Canadians and 50,000 Americans) linked to US-Coalition-NATO restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to a current 89% of world market share; 100,000 avoidable American under-5 infant deaths (due to warped Bush priorities; the cost of the Iraq War has been estimated at US$1-2 trillion by US Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz); and 3,000 Coalition military deaths (see MWC News and here).

These estimates are well documented and derive from authoritative medical, WHO and UN sources (for key links see WHO ,  UNODC,  UNICEF  , UN Population Division and a carefully researched letter I recently sent to all members of the Australian Federal parliament ).

Bush-supporters who are AWARE of authoritative estimates of huge post-invasion deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan should be seriously concerned at their own complicity. They can take some comfort in the knee-jerk bald denials from the US, UK and Australian Governments but they are also AWARE that these same Governments also denied the lack of any evidence for weapons of mass destruction in pre- and post-invasion Iraq; denied top  military, intelligence and scholarly testimony that the war on Iraq has exacerbated the terrorist threat to Anglo-Celtic countries occupying Muslim lands; and (with the exception of the UK) they also denied the seriousness of the acute global warming threat, still refuse to sign Kyoto Protocol and continue to preside over the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas producers (US and Australia).

Bush supporters with a trace of conscience or humanity would surely look for some confirmation of the Bush-Blair-Howard position elsewhere.  The easiest and quickest route would be to consult UNICEF – it is outstanding in its care for Children and advertises regularly on national TV.  However consulting UNICEF immediately informs the reader that the annual under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan total about 0.5 million, 1,300 daily or 1 (one) per minute. Bush supporters with the slightest curiosity about the consequences of the wars they support  would immediately realize that something is seriously wrong.