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    IRAQI MASSACRE IGNORED BY MEDIA

    MWC News
    March 5 2009

    Lying over Iraqi Genocide

    The core messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust are surely "zero
    tolerance for racism", "never again to anyone", "bear witness" and
    "zero tolerance for lying", injunctions ignored by Mainstream media
    and by Obama in relation to the ongoing Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan
    Genocides.

    Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National recently
    reported thus from Mainstream media sources and a Washington
    correspondent:

    "More than 4,200 Americans have been killed, tens of thousands of
    Iraqis have died and the conflict has cost hundreds of billions of
    dollars ...

    [quoting Barack Obama]:"Let me say this as plainly as I can, by
    August 31st 2010 our combat mission in Iraq will end" ... The vast
    majority of troops will not be withdrawn this year because the Iraqi
    elections are due in December. Instead many will start to leave next
    year. And between 35,000 and 50,000 American troops will stay behind
    after August next year to help train the Iraqi forces and to undertake
    counter terrorism missions. President Obama has announced his Iraq
    withdrawal timetable at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North
    Carolina. He's praised the efforts of the US military and he's also
    promised to have all US troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011." [1].

    However expert observers have a completely different view of the
    "reality" presented by the ABC as outlined below.

    1. "More than 4,200 Americans have been killed" ignores other US
    Alliance deaths and huge numbers of wounded.

    According to Iraq Casualties 4,253 Americans have been killed and
    31,010 have been wounded (such as not to return to duty within 3 days);
    US and US Alliance deaths total 4,571. [2].

    2. "Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died" is a 100-fold lower
    estimation of the reality of about 2.3 million violent and non-violent
    Iraqi post-invasion excess deaths.

    Just Foreign Policy (an organization of eminent US scholars and US
    elected representatives) says 1,311, 696 Iraqis have been killed
    post-invasion, this regularly updated figure being based on the
    survey data published in the top medical journal "The Lancet" by
    distinguished US medical epidemiologists from Johns Hopkins and
    Columbia Universities and corroborated by an independent survey by
    the top UK commercial polling organization ORB. [3].

    However those dying avoidably since the US Alliance Occupation include
    not only those killed violently but those killed non-violently
    through deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. These
    non-violent avoidable deaths can be estimated from comparative UN
    Population Division mortality data. As of March 2009, the post-invasion
    non-violent excess deaths (non-violent avoidable deaths) total 984,000
    (1.0 million). [4].

    The report also ignores the 630,000 post-invasion Iraqi under-5 infant
    deaths (about 0.1 million every year, 270 daily, largely avoidable and
    due to egregious US Alliance war crimes and equivalent to the 9-11
    death toll every 11 days according to the UN Population Division,
    plus an estimated 6 million refugees (as estimated by the eminent,
    international BRussells Tribunal. [5].

    3. "The conflict has cost hundreds of billions of dollars"
    underestimates the real accrual cost of $3 trillion by a factor of 10.

    2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia
    University) and his Harvard University colleague Professor Linda
    Bilmes have estimated that the accrual cost of the Iraq war has been
    $3 trillion. [6].

    Of particular interest to the million of newly unemployed around the
    world (and potentially hundreds of thousands of Australians losing
    their jobs because of US-caused economic recession) is the expert
    view of 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz that
    the Iraq war has bankrupted America. [7].

    4. Obama's "by August 31st 2010 our combat mission in Iraq will end"
    is an outright Obama lie according to "35,000 and 50,000 American
    troops will stay behind after August next year to help train the
    Iraqi forces and to undertake counter terrorism missions"

    5. "He's [Obama's] praised the efforts of the US military" means Obama
    accepts complicity in the Iraq War, the Iraqi Holocaust and Genocide.

    The invasion was illegal under International Law and based on egregious
    falsehood. According to a News.com article re US Center for Public
    Integrity: "US President George W Bush and other top officials issued
    almost one thousand false statements about the national security threat
    from Iraq following the September 11 attacks, according to a study by
    two not-for-profit organisations". Outstanding writers referring to
    the Iraqi Holocaust and/or Iraqi Genocide include Dr Mark Weissbrot
    (Just Foreign Policy), Dr Paul Craig Roberts (conservative Father
    of Reaganomics), John Pilger (Australian-UK writer) and Tariq Ali (
    Pakistani-UK writer). [8].

    6. "He's [Obama's] also promised to have all US troops out of Iraq by
    the end of 2011" is contradicted by US military who have foreshadowed
    endless involvement.

    According to the US Huffington Post, 1 March 2009:

    "Despite Obama's declarations Friday and the celebrations they have
    sparked on the liberal blogosphere, the Pentagon certainly seems to
    believe its forces may well be in Iraq after 2011. NBC's Pentagon
    correspondent Jim Miklaszeswki reported on Friday that "military
    commanders, despite this Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi
    government that all U.S. forces would be out by the end of 2011,
    are already making plans for a significant number of American troops
    to remain in Iraq beyond that 2011 deadline, assuming that Status
    of Forces Agreement agreement would be renegotiated. And one senior
    military commander told us that he expects large numbers of American
    troops to be in Iraq for the next 15 to 20 years." [9].

    How can Australia's taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting
    Corporation (ABC) continue to get it so utterly wrong over US
    involvement in Occupied Iraq? This is a question that should be
    asked by an Australian Federal Parliamentary Senate Committee of this
    taxpayer-funded organization and by the Australian Competition and
    Consumer Commission (ACCC) of the commercially-involved Australian
    Broadcasting Corporation.

    I can certainly testify to any Senate Committee of inquiry or any
    ACCC Investigation that the ABC has been variously involved in
    deliberate, knowing and sustained holocaust ignoring in relation to
    the Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Genocide - I have been assiduously
    informing the ABC of the increasingly horrendous dimensions of these
    Australian-complicit atrocities on a monthly basis for years, but
    the silence has been deafening.

    Thus the following authoritative estimate from late 2008: "The Bush
    Gang should be prosecuted over mass murder before the International
    Criminal Court (in absentia if necessary) for their involvement in
    the ongoing Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Genocides (post-invasion
    non-violent excess deaths 0.3 million, 1 million and 4 million,
    respectively; post-invasion violent excess deaths 10,000, 1 million
    and possibly 2 million, respectively [if the Occupied Afghanistan
    violent/non-violent excess death ratio is half that in Occupied Iraq];
    post-invasion under-5 year old infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.6 million
    and 2.1 million, respectively; refugees totalling 7 million, 6 million
    and 4 million, respectively - Genocides as defined by Article 2 of
    the UN Genocide Convention". [10].

    Concerned about continuing lying, holocaust ignoring and denial in
    the teaching of history in Australian schools, I recently made a
    detailed and lengthy submission in response to the draft Australian
    National History Curriculum Framing Paper, stating in small part:
    "Holocaust denial is wrong and utterly repugnant for 3 major reasons:
    (1) it is falsehood; (2) it is profoundly offensive to the memory of
    the victims, survivors of such atrocities, their loved ones and indeed
    to all of decent humanity; and (3) it increases the probability of
    repetition of such awful crimes - history ignored and history denied
    yields history repeated. Indeed one supposes that it is for these
    sorts of reasons that Germany recently proposed a measure for the
    EU that would criminalize not only those who deny or diminish the
    Jewish Holocaust but those belittling any relatively recent genocide,
    mass murder, war crimes and other crimes against humanity.

    Already denial or minimization of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust
    is a criminal offence attracting up to 10 years of imprisonment in
    Austria, 5 years in Germany and custodial punishment in many other
    European countries. Indeed denial of the Armenian Genocide (up to 1.5
    million Armenians murdered in Turkey in the period 1915-1923) is an
    offence in both France and Belgium ... Of course, when "holocaust
    ignoring" persists after those involved have been authoritatively
    apprised of holocaust occurrence then "holocaust ignoring" transmutes
    into morally repugnant "holocaust denial", inviting disapprobation,
    Sanctions, Boycotts and legal and administrative sanctions. If the
    National History Curriculum, authoritatively apprised about "holocaust
    occurrence", were to persist in a program with a possible outcome
    of effective "holocaust ignoring" then the consequences (e.g. legal
    and business) for Australia and particular individuals might well be
    draconian." [11].

    We have recently seen the public rebuke by the Holy Father, the
    Pope, to Bishop Williamson for his offending 20-fold diminution
    of the extent of the Jewish Holocaust (authoritative scholarly
    estimates are of 5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation;
    see Gilbert, M. (1969), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
    London); Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph,
    London)). However the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead) was part
    of a wider WW2 Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Roma dead) and
    wider still WW2 Holocaust also including 35 million Chinese killed
    under Japanese occupation and 6-7 million Indians deliberately starved
    to death by Churchill in the man-made 1943-1945 Bengal Famine. Yet
    the non-Jewish holocausts of WW2 have been largely written out of
    history to the extent that "the Holocaust" is typically taken to
    refer to the Jewish Holocaust despite the reality that the "forgotten"
    WW2 Bengal Holocaust was the first WW2 atrocity to be described as a
    "holocaust" (by N.G. Jog in his 1944 book ""Churchill's Blind-Spot:
    India", New Book Company, Bombay). [12].

    Clearly holocaust ignoring and holocaust denial is well entrenched in
    the English-speaking world in relation to holocausts other than the
    World War 2 Jewish Holocaust. The "news report" analyzed here is just
    "normal reportage" for the ABC and merely the very tip of the tip of
    an iceberg - Australia's national taxpayer-funded media organization,
    the ABC, needs to be subjected to intense public scrutiny for its
    sustained, highly offending holocaust ignoring and other failures of
    factual reportage.

    Indeed the ABC is merely the very tip of the tip of the iceberg
    of lying, racist, holocaust-ignoring reportage by the US Mainstream
    media of the Western Murdochracies. Tell all your friends to eschew the
    racist, lying, Zionist-beholden Mainstream media and to get factual and
    balanced reportage from the likes of AlterNet, Bellaciao, Democracy
    Now, Information Clearing House, Countercurrents, Counterpunch and
    MWC News.

    References

    [1]. Australian ABC Radio National, Saturday AM (Saturday 28 February
    2009, "The end in sight for American forces in Iraq".

    [2]. Iraq Casualties: http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx .

    [3]. Just Foreign Policy:
    http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraq deaths.html ).

    [4]. UN Population Division: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ; see
    also "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950"
    (G.M. Polya, Melbourne: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya and
    http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ .

    [5]. UN Population Division : http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ; BRussells
    Tribunal (see: http://brusselstribunal.org/about.htm .

    [6]. "US economy a "$3 trillion" casualty of war in Iraq ", The New
    Zealand Herald, March 2008; see also Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda
    J. Bilmes "The Three Trillion Dollar War", Norton, New York, 2008..

    [7]. "Award winning economist says America has bankrupted
    itself with the Iraq war ", ABC Lateline (5 May 2008) :
    http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s223 6161.htm .

    [8]. "George Bush, White House told 935 lies after September 11",
    News.com, 23 January 2008 .

    [9]. Huffington Post, 1 March 2009.

    [10]. "9-11 excuse for US global genocide. The real 9-11
    atrocity: millions dead (9-11 million) in Bush wars (1990-2009)":
    http://mwcnews.net/content/view /25184/42/ ); also see "Obama betrays
    humanity: 1,460 die avoidably daily in Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi
    and Afghan Territories", Bellaciao, 1 March, 2009.

    [11]. Response by Dr Gideon Polya to the Australian National History
    Curriculum Framing Paper.

    [12]. For details of this "forgotten" Bengali Holocaust of WW2
    see the 2008 BBC broadcast in which I participated together with
    1998 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard
    University, medical historian Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Wellcome
    Institute, University College London, and other scholars; see also
    "Media lying over Churchill's crimes. British-Indian Holocaust":
    http://mwcnews.net/content/view/2 6713/42/ .

    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 ---
    http://mwcnews.net/content/view/28982&Item id=1
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