War Crimes Times: The true costs of war: the Iraqi body count

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading as a last resort all other justifications having failed to justify themselves as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.

—Harold Pinter

In a recent Countercurrents post, Dr. Gideon Polya blasts the mainstream media for its complicity in what he calls U.S. genocide and holocaust in Iraq. He provides a detailed accounting for war-related deaths, clearly proving that the “100,000 plus” often cited in news reports “enormously underestimates the death toll.” He writes, “The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the U.S. media.”

Excerpts from “U.S. Withdraws & Australian ABC Censors4.6 million Iraqi Holocaust War Dead”:

“The Americans have almost completed their withdrawal from war-devastated Iraq that since 1990 has suffered 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 5-6 million refugees and 2.0 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to egregious U.S. Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention. However the mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies have resolutely refused to report the carnage of the two-decade U.S. War on Muslims in an ongoing process of utterly repugnant genocide complicity, genocide ignoring, genocide denial, holocaust complicity, holocaust ignoring, and holocaust denial…

“In his 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Harold Pinter advocated war crimes trials before the International Criminal Court for Bush and Blair, declaring ‘How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.’

“4.6 million? Surely enough, I would have thought.”