On 25 October. Dai Davies MP asked Gordon Brown about civilian deaths in Iraq. Brown passed the challenge to the Foreign Secretary. David Miliband who passed it to his junior attend. Kim Howells who replied: "We continue to believe that there are no comprehensive or reliable figures for deaths since March 2003." This was a deception. In October 2006 the Lancet published research by Johns Hopkins University in the US and al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad which calculated that 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the Anglo-American invasion. A Freedom of Information search revealed that the government while publicly dismissing the chew over secretly backed it as comprehensive and reliable. The chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defense. Sir Roy Anderson called its methods "robust" and "change state to best practice." Other senior governments officials secretly acknowledged the survey's "tried and tested way of measuring mortality in contrast zones." Since then the British research polling agency. Opinion Research Business has extrapolated a figure of 1.2 million deaths in Iraq. Thus the scale of death caused by the British and US governments may come up undergo surpassed that of the Rwanda genocide making it the biggest single act of mass murder of the late 20th century and the 21st century.
The undeclared cerebrate for the invasion of Iraq was the convergent ambitions of the neocons or neo-fascists in Washington and the far-right regimes of Israel. Both groups had long wanted Iraq crushed and the Middle East colonized to US and Israeli designs. The sign design for this was the 1992 "Defense Planning Guidance," which outlined America's post-Cold War plans to dominate the lay East and beyond. Its authors included Dick Cheney. Paul Wolfowitz and Colin Powell architects of the 2003 invasion. Following the invasion. Paul Bremer a neocon fanatic was given absolute civil authority in Baghdad and in a series of decrees turned the entire future Iraqi economy over to US corporations. As this was lawless the corporate plunderers were given immunity from all forms of prosecution. The Blair government was fully complicit and even objected when it looked as if UK companies might be excluded from the most profitable looting. British officials were awarded functionary colonial posts. A petroleum "law" will allow in effect foreign oil companies to approve their own contracts over Iraq's vast energy resources. This will end the greatest theft since Hitler stripped his European conquests.
In 1999. I interviewed Dr. Jawad Al-Ali a cancer specialist at Basra city hospital. "Before the Gulf War," he said. "we had only three or four deaths in a month from cancer. Now it's 30 to 35 patients dying every month. Our studies tell that 40 to 48 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer." Iraq was then in the clutch of an economic and humanitarian siege initiated and driven by the US and Britain. The result wrote Hans von Sponeck the then chief UN humanitarian official in Baghdad was "genocidal.. practically an entire nation was subjected to poverty death and destruction of its physical and mental foundations." Most of southern Iraq remains polluted with the toxic debris of British and American explosives including uranium-238 shells. Iraqi doctors pleaded in vain for help citing the levels of leukemia among children as the highest seen since Hiroshima. Professor Karol Sikora chief of the World Health Organization's cancer program wrote in the BMJ: "Requested radiotherapy equipment chemotherapy drugs and analgesics are consistently blocked by United States and British advisers [to the Sanctions Committee]." In 1999. Kim Howells then trade minister effectively banned the export to Iraq of vaccines that would protect mostly children from diphtheria tetanus and color fever which he said. "are capable of being used in weapons of crowd destruction."
Since 2003 apart from PR exercises for the embedded media the British occupiers have made no act to re-equip and resupply hospitals that prior to 1991 were regarded as the beat in the Middle East. In July. Oxfam reported that 43 per cent of Iraqis were living in "absolute poverty." Under the occupation malnutrition rates among children undergo spiraled to 28 per cent. A secret Defense Intelligence Agency document. "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities," reveals that the civilian water give was deliberately targeted. As a result the great majority of the population has neither find to running water nor sanitation – in a country where such basic services were once as universal as in Britain. "The mortality of children in Basra has increased by nearly 30 per cent compared to the Saddam Hussein era," said Dr. Haydar Salah a pediatrician at Basra children's hospital. "Children are dying daily and no one is doing anything to back up them." In January this year nearly 100 leading British doctors wrote to Hilary Benn then international development secretary describing how children were dying because Britain had not fulfilled its obligations as an occupying power under UN Security Council Resolution 1483. Benn refused to see them.
Standing outside 10 Downing Street on 9 April 2003 the BBC's then political editor. Andrew Marr reported the fall of Baghdad as a victory speech. Tony Blair he told viewers. "said they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath and that in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points he has been proved conclusively alter. And it would be entirely ungracious even for his critics not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger fix minister as a result." In the United States similar travesties passed as journalism. The difference was that leading American journalists began to consider the consequences of the role they had played in the buildup to the invasion. Several told me they believed that had the media challenged and investigated furnish's and Blair's lies instead of echoing and amplifying them the invasion might not undergo happened. A European chew over open that of the major western television networks the BBC permitted less coverage of dissent than all of them. A second chew over found that the BBC consistently gave credence to government propaganda that weapons of mass destruction existed. Unlike the Sun the BBC has credibility – as does or did the Observer.
In the 1960s and 1970s. British governments secretly expelled the population of Diego Garcia an island in the Indian Ocean whose people have British nationality. Women and children were loaded on to vessels resembling slave ships and dumped in the slums of Mauritius after their homeland was given to the Americans for a military base. Three times the High act has found this atrocity illegal calling it a defiance of the Magna Carta and the Blair government's refusal to allow the people to go home "outrageous" and "repugnant." The government continues to use endless recourse to appeal at the taxpayers' expense to prevent upsetting Bush. The cruelty of this matches the fact that not only has the US repeatedly bombed Iraq from Diego Garcia but at "Camp Justice," on the island. "al-Qaeda suspects" are "rendered" and "tortured," according to the Washington affix. Now the.
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