Wrecking Iraq: One Million Dead, 2 Million Wounded, 3 Million Displaced

[fishman3811]

By MIKE FERNER

Two elements are necessary to commit the crime of genocide:

1) the mental element, meaning intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, and

2) the physical element, which includes any of the following: killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births; or forcibly transferring children to another group.

Considering that such clear language comes from a UN treaty which is legally binding on our country, things could start getting a little worrisome -- especially when you realize that since our government declared economic and military warfare on Iraq we've killed well over one million people, fast approaching two.

This summer will be one year since researchers from Johns Hopkins University collected data for a study which concluded 655,000 additional deaths were caused by the military war, and things have only gotten worse since then. Then consider that the economic war killed an additional 500,000 Iraqi kids under the age of five during only the first seven years of sanctions which were in force for a dozen years, according to a 1999 U.N. report.

Based on the Johns Hopkins estimate of Iraqis killed in the war, one could conservatively estimate that another 2.6 million people have been wounded. The U.N. estimates that between 1.5 million and 2 million Iraqis are now "internally displaced" by the fighting and roughly the same number have fled their country, including disproportionate numbers of doctors and other professionals.

If you are sitting down and possess a healthy imagination, try conjuring up similar conditions here in our land. Start with the fact that few people buy bottled water and what comes out of the tap is guaranteed to at least make you sick if not kill you Three times as many of our fellow citizens are out of work as during the Great Depression On a good day we have three or four hours of electricity to preserve food or cool the 110-degree heat No proper hospitals or rehab clinics exist to help the wounded become productive members of society Roads are a mess Reports of birth defects from exposure to depleted uranium have begun surfacing around the country. Reflect for a minute on the grief brought by a single loved one's death. Then open your heart to the reality of life if we suffered casualties comparable to those endured by the people of Iraq.

In the former cities of Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Seattle, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Baltimore, San Francisco, Dallas and Philadelphia every single person is dead. In Vermont, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Oregon, South Carolina and Colorado every single person is wounded.

The entire populations of Ohio and New Jersey are homeless, surviving with friends, relatives or under bridges as they can. The entire populations of Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky have fled to Canada or Mexico. Over the past three years, one in four U.S. doctors has left the country. Last year alone 3,000 doctors were kidnapped and 800 killed. In short, nobody "out there" is coming to save us.

We are in hell.

Of course our government didn't intend to commit genocide, it just sort of happened. The Iraqis kept getting in the way while we were trying to complete the mission. Mistakes were made as we were building democracy, but surely no genocide was intended. After all, we are the international deciders of what is and what isn't genocide, and we know full well that intent is a requirement.

It was only "collateral genocide" and lord knows we did our very best to avoid it

fishman3811 Reviewed by fishman3811 on 05-12-2007. Wrecking Iraq: One Million Dead, 2 Million Wounded, 3 Million Displaced By MIKE FERNER Two elements are necessary to commit the crime of genocide: 1) the mental element, meaning intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, and 2) the physical element, which includes any of the following: killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to Rating: 5

[Psycho4Bud]

Dude, you really need to pull that squirell off our head...........LOL

Have a good one!:s4:

[fishman3811]

lol what the truth hurts?

[Psycho4Bud]

lol what the truth hurts?

What truth? If the people that ARE NOT Iraqi's would quit blowing their asses up in the middle of a market with women and children that would be a +. This insinuates that WE are committing this act of genocide.

We're the ones trying to stop this and now it seems that the Sunni tribes have had enough of the middle eastern foreign fighters that bow to Al-Queda. One million dead? Another stretch of numbers according to any and all reports that I've seen........even from the left!

Have a good one!:s4:

[medicinal]

What truth? If the people that ARE NOT Iraqi's would quit blowing their asses up in the middle of a market with women and children that would be a +. This insinuates that WE are committing this act of genocide.

We're the ones trying to stop this and now it seems that the Sunni tribes have had enough of the middle eastern foreign fighters that bow to Al-Queda. One million dead? Another stretch of numbers according to any and all reports that I've seen........even from the left!

Have a good one!:s4:

Whoa big fella, if it weren't for us, The USA, none of this would be happening. We are entirely to blame for every death in Iraq that wasn't from natural causes, and there arent too many of those, like old age. you don't have to worry about dying from old age in Iraq, Just take a stroll down to the market place once in a while. This was a war of choice for Bushco and even now he trys to make us like it, Bah humbug. He is a liar and a crook and an international terrorist.

[RamblerGambler]

16 knowingly false words were all it took. That and a dedication to invade Iraq that predated the events of 9/11.

[Psycho4Bud]

Whoa big fella, if it weren't for us, The USA, none of this would be happening. We are entirely to blame for every death in Iraq that wasn't from natural causes, and there arent too many of those, like old age. you don't have to worry about dying from old age in Iraq, Just take a stroll down to the market place once in a while.

Well with that logic then the death count isn't our fault either........it's Saddams. IF he would have abided by the U.N. resolutions immediately after "91" none of this would have happened at all.

That's like trying to say that gun manufacturers are guilty of murder when some dumb ass gang banger kills someone. "If it weren't for them....."

Have a good one!:s4:

[fishman3811]

P4B Saddam had U.N inspectors in his country looking for WMDs just months before the start of the war so dont go blaming Saddam.Actually Saddam and his sons were ready to leave the country and was going to announce it to the world on AL-Jaezera the night before the invasion but the CIA cut the power to the news station so it was never broadcasted i saw that on 20/20

[Psycho4Bud]

P4B Saddam had U.N inspectors in his country looking for WMDs just months before the start of the war so dont go blaming Saddam.

I posted the last U.N. inspection report and they stated that Saddam was playing a game of cat and mouse with them. Also, why didn't he disclose underground facilities that we found after the invasion. What was in there I wonder?

Actually Saddam and his sons were ready to leave the country and was going to announce it to the world on AL-Jaezera the night before the invasion but the CIA cut the power to the news station so it was never broadcasted i saw that on 20/20

LMAO! PLEASE provide some type of link to that story from a CREDIBLE news source.

Have a good one!:s4:

[memoryburner]

P4B Saddam had U.N inspectors in his country looking for WMDs just months before the start of the war so dont go blaming Saddam.Actually Saddam and his sons were ready to leave the country and was going to announce it to the world on AL-Jaezera the night before the invasion but the CIA cut the power to the news station so it was never broadcasted i saw that on 20/20

HAW! that has to be the most b/s thing ive ever read.