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Sep 29 2007
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I received a prompt reply from a very decent Member of the Australian Parliament who thanked me for the information and made it clear that the current awful threat to Iran was a key concern and that they were now “trying to highlight the PR campaign from the USA to soften up the public for an onslaught in Iran”.

US Mainstream media and politicians in Australia and around the world continue to ignore these horrendous consequences of Bush’s war policies. The bigger picture of the Bush Family war policies in Iraq since 1990 is summarized thus: violent Iraqi deaths in the Gulf War (also involving US deception) 0.2 million; 1990-2003 Iraqi excess deaths under US-UN Sanctions 1.7 million; post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths 2.0 million.

The Bush Wars against Iraq have (so far) killed about 4 million Iraqis out of an average 1990-2007 population of about 24 million and created over 4.2 million refugees – this clearly constituting Genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention.  We are witnessing a continuing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide that is ignored  by the racist, holocaust-ignoring, holocaust-denying, Bush Mainstream media of the perpetrator countries.

Just compare this continuing atrocity with the Nazi German Jewish Holocaust –  5 million killed, 1 million excess deaths from starvation and deprivation i.e. about 6 million excess deaths out of a Jewish population in Nazi Europe of about 9 million and a total world Jewish population at the time of about 15 million (see: . Gilbert, M. (1969), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London) and Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph, London)).

Peaceful, remote, non-nuclear-armed, NPT-signatory, non-aggressive, non-foreign country invading or occupying  Iran has a population of over 70 million (three quarters of whom are Women and Children). We must all stand up to prevent the next, looming  Bush-ite  atrocity now being daily adumbrated for Iran - and demand the prosecution of Bush and his war criminal, mass murdering, racist  accomplices in the horrendous Iraqi Holocaust.

Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---
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1. 29-09-2007 11:41
By all accounts the genocide is occurring by Iraqi's toward Iraqi's - and it is just the American forces peripherally that are being killed or who kill- while ironically trying to help them. So spin it any way you want to try and make President Bush a genocidal maniac here - but you cannot. The specific killing of one's own people is Iraqi born and bred. And only Iraq can choose to stop and cease to continue that clearly understood reality - not on U.S. President Bush to be accountable for their bloodthirsty mentality - especially in regard to their abuse "spinning" of their youngest, most defenseless generation of children and babies which the liberal press of the U.S. most especially loves to portray for all of our "benefit" whenever one or more of them is killed at the hands of their own countryman's suicidal actions...
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Oregon
2. 29-09-2007 11:43
Of course its genocide. Media , like always, is being kind to the republicans and not labeling it.  
 
Even the Dems , who cower, are afraid to speak the truth. 
 
War monger neocons, war profiteers and cowards make up our government today
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ksec
3. 29-09-2007 13:12
US Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide
Thank you ksec for your sensible comment. The post-invasion NON-VIOLENT deaths in Iraq (now 0.7-0.8 million) are being caused by grievous deprivation by the US Coalition Occupiers in gross violation of the Geneva Convention. The post-invasion VIOLENT deaths (0.8-1.2 million) are being caused by violence from Occupiers, failure of Occupier security, Indigenous fighters and their confreres, from directly or indirectly US-funded sectarian or Government militias and death squads and by US mercenaries. 
 
TOTAL post invasion excess deaths of 2.0 million + Gulf War violent deaths of 0.2 million + Sanctions War excess deaths of 1.7 million = 3.9 million post-1990 excess deaths, an horrendous total commensurate with those of the Jewish Holocaust, the WW2 Nazi German-inflicted Jewish Genocide (5-6 million deaths) and of largely UN-REPORTED man-made, British-inflicted Bengali Holocaust (Bengal Famine (Bengali Genocide) of WW2 British India (4 million deaths).  
 
Undoubtedly what is happening in Iraq is a continuing HOLOCAUST (i.e. involves a huge number of deaths).  
 
According to the UN Genocide Convention, Article II: Article II. In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. 
 
The American phase of the Iraqi Holocuast, Iraqi Genocide has been going on INTENTIONALLY since 1990.; the British invovlement has been ongoing off and on since 1914 (see my book \"Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950\"; see details via the link provided below)\"  
 
The Iraqis are SEMITES from the heartland of Semitic culture dating back about 7,000 years.  
 
While (contrary to lying Mainstream media reports) Iran\'s President Ahamadinejad does NOT deny the Holocaust (he merely wants more scholarly research), the racist Bush-ite- and Racist Zionist-beholden, racist, lying, Iraq holocaust-ignoring, Iraq Genocide-denying Anglo-American Mainstream media are almost COMPREHENSIVELY involved in sustained, INTENTIONAL, anti-Semitic Holocaust Denial over the continuing ACTUALITY of the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide in which most of the victims are Women and Children. 
 
Would you buy Nazi goods or services? Peace is the only way - comprehensive Internationla and Intra-national Sanctions and Boycotts against the largely Anglo-American mass murderers are required until the killing stops, the victims are recompensed and the largely Anglo-American perpetrators arraigned, tried and punished in war crimes trials before the ICC.
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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya
4. 30-09-2007 04:58
Fear.
Oregon, 
My memory serves me well enough, I remember reports coming out of Iraq shown on television, of street scenes , cafes, coffee shops, of people walking around in a relaxed manner. Women dressed in a variety of ways , when asked about Saddam their dictator, they hiding there faces, made the the comment in general that they took no real notice of him, they thought he was, what one might call a nut case and he was dangerous. This was at the time when the deathly storm clouds of war were gathering around Iraq. 
There were no suicide bombers in Iraq then, no enforced dress codes (now enforced by thugs), you could openly practice Christianity, pretty tricky now. Iraq was a secular country then, now fringe religions are victimized, these people are leaving Iraq in droves. 
We all know Saddam killed and victimized those he saw as threats. 
But through US sanctions there was much death in that country, after the invasion there developed an epidemic of deaths. Do you challenge Dr.Gideon\\\'s death count, if you do, supply the numbers. 
You cannot put the blame on Iraq, if you do you are blind to your own powers of deduction. 
If a lunatics moves into a house he, she, will infect all around her/him in that house, it is about time folks used their own powers of observation and deduction. 
I think fear of the truth stops them. 
 
Mike
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5. 30-09-2007 13:32
Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide
Well said Mike. The awful truth and the NUMBERS come from EXPERT disinterested bodies whose only personal interest for personal, professional or indeed commercial reasons is to GET IT RIGHT - specifically the UN Population Division (epidemiologists, demographers), WHO (epidemiologists, thanatologists, medical doctors,economists), UNICEF (ditto), a top UK polling and market analysis company (ORB), and America's and the World's top medical epidemiologists (from America's and the World's top Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, and from Columbia University, repeatedly published peer-reviewed in the top medical journal The Lancet and endorsed by 27 top Australia medical experts). 
 
You can understand from the credentials of these EXPERTS who are BEARING WITNESS to the Iraqi Genocide and the Iraqi Holocaust why the lying, racist, holocaust-denying Bush-ite mainstream media and politicians largely choose to IGNORE i.e. LIE BY OMISSION.
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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

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