May 24 2006
How Bush killed 100,000 American infants
By Gideon Polya   

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How Bush killed 100,000 American infants 

The US is the richest country on earth with an annual per capita income of about $38,000 – as compared to $21,000 (Singapore), $400 (Bangladesh) and an average for the world of about $9,000 (2003 figures; for the latest see UNICEF

One assumes that surely an overwhelmingly majority of Americans would regard the Right to Life of BORN American infants as a fundamental priority and that accordingly the “DEMOCRACY” Americans keep boasting about endlessly, together with their immense WEALTH, would result in America having the best infant survival outcomes in the world. Not so – keeping America’s infants alive has proved as difficult for Dubya as pronouncing “nucular” properly.

Unfortunately for 100,000 dead American infants and 200,000 bereaved American parents (so far) this century, American “democracy” doesn’t mean satisfying overwhelming popular demands. 

Under George W. Bush there have been crucial priorities OTHER than the legitimate, popular, DEMOCRATIC demand for American infant survival e.g. invading and occupying foreign countries (Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan), putting up the price of oil, assisting particular areas of the economy (e.g. the military-industrial complex, Saudi petrodollar investment in the US) and killing America’s “enemies” such as the 1.6 million under-5 year old infants who have died avoidably post-invasion in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories (see MWC News , here  , and also see: here and here ).

 The 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate, American  Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) and his Harvard colleague Professor Linda Bilmes have estimated the US dollar cost of the Iraq War at between $1 TRILLION and $2 TRILLION (see: herehere and MWC News ). Bush has certainly had plenty of resources with which to respond to the number one democratic demand of the American people and  invest in the survival of American infants. Unfortunately Bush had “better” things to do with American taxes.

The “annual under-5 infant death rate” is 0.17% in the “democratic” US (annual per capita income $38,000) – exactly the same as in one-party Communist  Cuba under Fidel Castro (annual per capita income $1,200) – but is only 0.07% in “democratic” Singapore (annual per capita income $21,000;  84 People’s Action Party MPs, but only 2 Opposition MPs after the 2006 elections) (see: here ).

Clearly, “democratic” America under Bush has not done nearly as well as “democratic” Singapore in keeping infants alive – indeed it has only done as well as impoverished Communist Cuba. The DIFFERENCE between the “annual under-5 infant death rate” of the US and Singapore is 0.1% and the under-5 infant population of the US is 20.1 million –  this difference accordingly translates as 20,100 under-5 year old American infant deaths each year or about 100,000 AMERICAN INFANT DEATHS OVER 5 YEARS.  

One-party Cuban  “democracy” means that infant survival is the same as in the world’s richest nation. One party-dominated Singaporean “democracy” means that infant survival in Singapore is TWICE that in the world’s richest country. Two-party, corporate-dominated American “democracy” means that infant survival in the US is the same as in one of the poorest countries in the Americas.

Lying, racist, holocaust-ignoring Anglo-American Mainstream Media will simply NOT report the horrendous human cost of the Bush Wars that (so far) have been  associated with 2.3 million excess deaths (avoidable deaths) and 1.8 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable) in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories (see MWC News ). These avoidable deaths have occurred due to  gross contravention by the US-led Coalition of the 1949 Geneva Convention that demands that the Occupier do everything in its power to preserve the health and life of its conquered subjects (see: here). 

Unfortunately,  the US (like Israel) regards its citizens as beyond the reach of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and accordingly Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Dr Rice (Dr Death) are unlikely to face the ICC for their involvement in the post-invasion avoidable deaths of 1.6 million utterly innocent and utterly helpless  Iraqi and Afghan infants. However Bush and Dr Death are subject to US Federal Laws in relation to war crimes. Further, they are subject to US laws in relation to depraved indifference in complicity in the deaths of fellow American citizens. 

SO FAR Bush has a major responsibility for the deaths of 2,752 American soldiers (2,456 in Iraq and 296 in Afghanistan), the wounding of 18,587 American soldiers (17,869 in Iraq and 718 in Afghanistan) (see:   ), for about 50,000 post-2001 American opiate drug deaths due to Coalition restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to a current 87% of world market share (see: here ) and for about 100,000 under-5 year old American infant deaths due to gross dereliction of duty. 

How many Americans does Bush have to kill before he is impeached?

Americans, write your Congressman NOW.

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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. 12-04-2007 10:40
False assumption
Your "premise" is based on an untrue assumption. No one did anything before 9/11 to "prevent" all the avoidable deaths. You may as well claim that China's affinity to Coke is killing whales. If only the some odd billion Chinese would only stop drinking Coke, that money would have saved all the whales from dying... boo hoo. Way to make two unconnected events seem connected. How many homeless shelters are not running at capacity in cities where you can see people living in boxes or under bridges? I suppose we should "force" them to go inside? Get real. Most people don't want help, wouldn't supply help if they could, or are just indifferent. Yeah, the world isn't fair, but who is to say that if we hadn't gone into Iraq or get out too early that Millions of direct casualties wouldn't result. How many children have you killed by not donating something as little as $1US to prevent a child from dying of Malaria in Africa. If you will check, you'll see that the US saves more lives every year than ALL other countries combined. Good luck spreading your lies and propaganda. (that's sarcasm, just so you know)
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2. 22-04-2007 04:18
Avoidable US infant deaths
MWC NEWS Readers - the Ruler is responsible for the Ruled and is formally held to that responsibility by the Geneva Convention and other human rights conventions.  
 
As of April 2007 and as determined from UN Population Divsion and top medical literature data (employing non-Orwellian arithemtic i.e. 2 plus 2 = 4) , the Bush Administration is responsible for excess deaths of under-5 year old AMERICAN infants totalling about 0.12 million and post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories totalling 1.0 million and 2.4 million , respectively (mostly Women and Children) and of which about 0.45 million and 1.7 million, respectively, have been under-5 year old infants. 
 
A fundamental human law is "thou  
shalt not kill children" but that is exactly what the Bush Administration has been doing both at home and abroad on an appalling scale. 
 
The Bush War on Terror is in harsh reality a cowardly War on Women and Children, a War on Asian Women and Children, a War on Muslim Women and Children, a war on Aran Women and Children, a war on non-European Women and Children - and also a war on AMERICAN Women and Children.  
 
Those who knowingly deny, ignore, excuse, minimize, obfuscate, support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in the horrendous abuse of Women and Children (or indeed of anyone) have crossed the line between decent humanity and barbarism.
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3. 28-01-2008 09:53
Avoidable US infant deaths
Again, Polya, you are blaming Bush for something he has no direct correlation with. The job, in America, of raising and caring for children is not that of the leaders of this country but the parents. The parents are the primary caregivers and are held accountable for whatever may happen to any child in their custody. Bush has no direct effect on that role except maybe taxes. It is the legislative branch that controls the laws of this land. The President can not just inact a rule of law on a whim. And if you are going make the statement that the President is responsible for all the abuses, death that result from abuse of children, etc then stay on subject. Don't meander into another subject (Iraq, the war, etc) and try to connect the two. Also, Bush is responsible for signing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act which will help save children and bring to justice those who harm them. Apparently, in your delusional state you have laid the blame for every violent act ever committed at the feet of my President. It's obsurd to do so. He is not Hussein, who ordered the deaths of thousands of his own people. The President CAN'T do that. The way our government is set up doesn't allow for that kind of thing to happen.
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4. 28-01-2008 12:26
Bush & HUGE US DEATHS
The Ruler is responsible for the Ruled - and this indeed is spelled out in Internationally Agreed human rights conventions e.g. the Rights of the Child, Genocide and Geneva Conventions. 
 
The Sheriff who allows crazed gunmen to kill in Dodge City, Detroit, America or elsewhere in the American Empire is CULPABLE. 
 
Bush is the world's #1 terrorist, #1 child killer, #1 war criminal and #1 by far, murderer of his OWN PEOPLE. 
 
By the time this evil criminal leaves office, 8 x 20,000 = 160,000 under-5 year old AMERICAN infants will have died avoidably because the Sheriff is spending taxpayers money on killing Asian kids (nearly 3 million so far in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan). 
 
By the time pro-Gun Mass Murderer Bush leaves office 8 x 30,000 = 240,000 Americans will have died from Guns. 
 
Anyone who says that Hitler was not personally to blame for 6 million deaths in the Jewish Holocaust deservedly faces 10 years in an Austrian prison for HOLOCAUST DENIAL.
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