Iraq turning into a human slaughterhouse

[ECH1969]

We will not be far from truth or away from reality if we say that Iraq has become something like a slaughterhouse in which human beings are massacred day in day out with the victims unaware of why they are being slaughtered. In ancient times people were offered as sacrifices to appease the gods. These sacrifices, including mainly young boys and girls, were made so that the gods will have mercy on life on earth.

The movement from barbarism to humanity is a major milestone in human history. Religions and philosophies contributed to deepening and enhancing the value of life and human beings. The respect of human life, rights and value should not be restricted to the followers of one religion or members of a particular ethnic or sectarian group. Human beings no matter their color, religion or sect are equal.

But apparently and unfortunately the transfer from barbarism to humanity is not yet complete and there are forces which still believe human beings can be sacrificed for their causes and interests the way they were slaughtered before ancient gods. A case in point is Iraq which has turned into something of a human slaughterhouse since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

There are forces in Iraq – and they are too many – whose ideology is built on hatred, rancor and suspicion. These forces believe that those who do not follow their path are evil and must be slaughtered. They have turned our land into a slaughter house in which souls are killed without justification. These evil spirits gushing forth from their long-necked bottles have turned our life into hell.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=opinion%5C2006-04-24%5C162.htm

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1. Bbbuut...a school just opened!

Well, it was there before we blew it up...but it's positive news of progress! :sarcasm:

[Vexatious Ape]

2. religion???

You said: Religions and philosophies contributed to deepening and enhancing the value of life and human beings.
Religion is one of the major factors in the bloodshed in Iraq today. Religion divides people--always has and...
I'm not blaming religion on all the violence there--we are to blame with our imperialism, our greed, but the fighting between Sunni's and Shiites is to be blamed on religion.

[ECH1969]

3. Dude, my post is from an Iraqi news source its not my writing

check the link.

[Vexatious Ape]

4. sorry--knee-jerk reaction on my part.

[populistdriven]

5. Someone please graph the decline in population if you have the data

I bet the 8 - 10 year Rummy war plan is to decimate the population

[Karenina]

6. Depopulation is a PNAC goal.

UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program

Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over


Part 6

by Leuren Moret

More-4-Us


Dr. Henry Kissinger, who wrote: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”

Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist, discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. That discovery made him a threat to the biotech industry.

Chapela was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that UC Chancellor Berdahl, who was denying him tenure, was getting large cash payments - $40,000 per year - from the LAM Research Corp. in Plano, Texas.

Berdahl served as president of Texas A&M University before coming to Berkeley. During a presentation about his case, Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a U.S. company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm and are unable to reproduce.

(snip)

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled “Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests,” says:

“Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that ‘depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.’ He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries ... Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S.”

http://www.sfbayview.com/110304/ucregents110304.shtml

[IndyOp]

10. Depopulating Iraq: Success!

Real Shock & Awe: After 15 Years War, Sanctions 1,000,000 Iraqis Dead

In 15 Years (1991-2006), the US has caused/contributed to 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths

Persian Gulf War: 150,000
Gulf War Aftermath: Many thousands
UN Sanctions: Primary cause of 600,000 deaths
Iraq War: 250,000

The Persian Gulf War did not have to happen: Hussein did not invade Kuwait until after he had received an assurance from April Gillespie that the "US had no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts." Even if he had invaded, alternatives to war were available.

The Gulf War Aftermath Encouraged by American radio broadcasts to rise up against their ‘dictator’, the Kurds of northern Iraq rebelled against a nominally defeated and certainly weakened Saddam Hussein in March of 1991. Fear of being drawn into an Iraqi civil war and possible diplomatic repercussions precluded President Bush from committing US forces to support the Kurds. Within days Iraqi forces recovered and launched a ruthless counteroffensive including napalm and chemical attacks from helicopters. They quickly reclaimed lost territory and crushed the rebellion. By the first week of April, 800 to 1,000 people, mostly the very young and the very old, were dying each day. link Al Franken has said that many 100,000's of Kurds and Shia were slaughtered, but I do not have a printed source.

UN (US/UK Sanctions) The United Nations Security Council has maintained comprehensive economic sanctions on Iraq from August 1990 until March 2003. Sanctions in Iraq hurt large numbers of innocent civilians not only by limiting the availability of food and medicines, but also by disrupting the whole economy, and reducing the national capacity of water treatment, electrical systems and other infrastructure critical for health and life. The oil-for-food program provided an average of $200 per year for each of 23,000,000 Iraqis - well below the international poverty level. In the UN Security Council, countries urged the US and UK to allow the sanctions to be lifted, but the US/UK would not allow this.

Iraq War A Johns Hopkins University study published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October, 2004. // The figure of 100,000 had been based on somewhat "conservative assumptions", notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, U.S., who led the study. That estimate excludes Falluja, a hotspot for violence. If the data from this town is included, the compiled studies point to about 250,000 excess deaths since the outbreak of the U.S.-led war. // Eman Ahmad Khamas.... said: "This occupation has destroyed Iraq. Americans don't know that tens of thousands of Iraqis are in prisons. Americans don't know how many have been killed. Lancet reported 100,000 in 2004, not counting Falluja. Now it is something like double this number."

Important: Whether or not you believe that US foreign policy caused/contributed to all of these deaths - the death toll is a valid, conservative estimate of Iraqi deaths in the past 15 years in excess of what would have been expected if there had been peace. PLEASE TELL PEOPLE THIS NUMBER -- maybe it is big enough to shock the American public awake and cause them to realize the true devastation in Iraq: 1,000,000

[Justice Is Comin]

7. Did you see the Captain

who returned from Iraq that said shortly after the invasion, the insurgents were offering $1,000 to any Iraqi who killed an American soldier, and then on proof of the death, would get another $1,000.

He just returned from Iraq and said there are so many insurgents now willing to do it, they only pay twenty dollars !!

[Canuckistanian]

8. You can't argue with supply and demand....

American deaths are just one more commodity to be traded in the Iraqi marketplace.

And wasn't Iraq supposed to be a transformed into a capitalist's dream?

[IndyOp]

9. Real Shock & Awe: After 15 Years War, Sanctions 1,000,000 Iraqis Dead

Real Shock & Awe: After 15 Years War, Sanctions 1,000,000 Iraqis Dead

In 15 Years (1991-2006), the US has caused/contributed to 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths

Persian Gulf War: 150,000
Gulf War Aftermath: Many thousands
UN Sanctions: Primary cause of 600,000 deaths
Iraq War: 250,000

The Persian Gulf War did not have to happen: Hussein did not invade Kuwait until after he had received an assurance from April Gillespie that the "US had no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts." Even if he had invaded, alternatives to war were available.

The Gulf War Aftermath Encouraged by American radio broadcasts to rise up against their ‘dictator’, the Kurds of northern Iraq rebelled against a nominally defeated and certainly weakened Saddam Hussein in March of 1991. Fear of being drawn into an Iraqi civil war and possible diplomatic repercussions precluded President Bush from committing US forces to support the Kurds. Within days Iraqi forces recovered and launched a ruthless counteroffensive including napalm and chemical attacks from helicopters. They quickly reclaimed lost territory and crushed the rebellion. By the first week of April, 800 to 1,000 people, mostly the very young and the very old, were dying each day. link Al Franken has said that many 100,000's of Kurds and Shia were slaughtered, but I do not have a printed source.

UN (US/UK Sanctions) The United Nations Security Council has maintained comprehensive economic sanctions on Iraq from August 1990 until March 2003. Sanctions in Iraq hurt large numbers of innocent civilians not only by limiting the availability of food and medicines, but also by disrupting the whole economy, and reducing the national capacity of water treatment, electrical systems and other infrastructure critical for health and life. The oil-for-food program provided an average of $200 per year for each of 23,000,000 Iraqis - well below the international poverty level. In the UN Security Council, countries urged the US and UK to allow the sanctions to be lifted, but the US/UK would not allow this.

Iraq War A Johns Hopkins University study published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October, 2004. // The figure of 100,000 had been based on somewhat "conservative assumptions", notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, U.S., who led the study. That estimate excludes Falluja, a hotspot for violence. If the data from this town is included, the compiled studies point to about 250,000 excess deaths since the outbreak of the U.S.-led war. // Eman Ahmad Khamas.... said: "This occupation has destroyed Iraq. Americans don't know that tens of thousands of Iraqis are in prisons. Americans don't know how many have been killed. Lancet reported 100,000 in 2004, not counting Falluja. Now it is something like double this number."

Important: Whether or not you believe that US foreign policy caused/contributed to all of these deaths - the death toll is a valid, conservative estimate of Iraqi deaths in the past 15 years in excess of what would have been expected if there had been peace. PLEASE TELL PEOPLE THIS NUMBER -- maybe it is big enough to shock the American public awake and cause them to realize the true devastation in Iraq: 1,000,000