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class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>A new US estimate of the number of Iraqis killed seven years after the US-led invasion serves as a reminder that civilians are dying on a daily basis in Iraq, writes <b>Salah Hemeid</b></p> <p>Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s famous quotation apparently justifying the deaths of half a million Iraqi children as a result of the Washington- backed and UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s has often been remembered as a cold-blooded assertion of US policy objectives.</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 289px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content//20061018_boy_holding_the_feet_of_his_dead_father_hospital_morgue_baquba_october_18_2006.jpg"/></p> <p>Boy Holding The Feet Of His Father Baquba Hospital Morgue October 18 2006. </p> </p></div> <p>The aphorism came to mind again last week when US media reported that the United States had finally released its first official compilation of data on Iraqi casualties, more than seven years after its invasion of the country.</p> <p>The report, posted on the US Central Command website in July, drew little notice until last Thursday, when media outlets published details showing that 63,185 civilians and 13,754 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed from early 2004 to August 2008.</p> <p>It is not clear why the figures did not include casualties from the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003, or from the period after August 2008. It is not clear either how the data were compiled and using what methodology.</p> <p>The figures seem to represent a "policy engineered" anti-climax as the Obama administration, facing a mid- term election challenge, tries to bring an end to America’s misadventure in Iraq.</p> <p>The number of Iraqis killed during the US-led invasion and its aftermath has long been hotly debated, estimates ranging from fewer than 100,000 to more than a million.</p> <p>Knowing how these latest US figures were arrived at would speak volumes about how the United States is faring as it prepares to exit from Iraq.</p> <p>The casualty figures released by Washington are lower than those from Iraqi government sources. Last year, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights reported that 85,694 Iraqis, including military and police personnel, had been killed from the beginning of 2004 through to October 2008.</p> <p>In January 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 151,000 deaths had taken place in the country due to the violence, with a 95 per cent confidence estimate of between 104,000 and 223,000 from March 2003 through to June 2006. The figures were based on the results of an Iraq family health survey published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, a respected US journal. </p> <p>Another estimate from the Iraq Body Count, a non- governmental organisation based in Britain that uses media accounts, has put the number of civilian dead in Iraq at 47,668 during the same period as the WHO study. The group’s latest figures for civilian deaths from violence in the country until September 19 2010 stood at between 98,252 and 107,235.</p> <p>A 2006 survey in <i>The Lancet</i>, a British medical journal, estimated that more than 600,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war, a figure more than 10 times higher than other estimates at the time. </p> <p>Iraq has not officially reacted to any of the studies, though many Iraqis have rejected the new US figures on the number of civilian deaths in the conflict, saying that they are well below the actual numbers who have died. </p> <p>The numbers are misleading, critics say, because they are not based on a well- defined methodology dealing with all violence-related deaths, including assassinations and in operations conducted by the US military.</p> <p>Estimates of casualty figures during the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq have been controversial because of the high political stakes involved and the possibility of manipulation aimed at swaying public opinion. The recent report was prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive at George Washington University. </p> <p>Scepticism has arisen about these latest figures not only because of possible discrepancies and the mysterious standards used to establish the magnitude of the casualties, but also because the parties involved have been reluctant to tell the truth about this human tragedy.</p> <p>A fundamental question is why the US military, which bears primary responsibility for the conflict, failed to address the issue start from the start and why it did not keep accurate records on the victims of the invasion and occupation.</p> <p>The military’s apparent incapacity to provide statistics about the causalities of US air bombardments and other related operations is a real and pressing concern.</p> <p>Another question of concern is why the US media, omnipresent in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, has not capitalised on its high standards of professionalism to gather accurate data about the human tragedy in Iraq.</p> <p>The Associated Press kept a record for the period from 28 April 2005 to 30 September 2010 listing some 49,416 deaths.</p> <p>Yet, even more disturbing than these US failures has been the failure by successive Iraqi governments to establish an efficient process of data collection to register the deaths of Iraqi citizens and to compensate their families.</p> <p>Failure to collect data and dodgy statistics are not the only problems. There is also the problem of how to count deaths that are directly related to the war and occupation, separating them from deaths as a result of violence in the country.</p> <p>Absent from the debate is any explanation of the humanitarian crisis that has struck Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, including increasing poverty, unemployment, the deterioration of health services and the destruction of the country’s ecological system.</p> <p>Statistics such as those released by the US military have also largely ignored Iraqi fatalities caused by a lack of clean drinking water and a breakdown in utilities.</p> <p>Humanitarian agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross have warned that the country’s healthcare facilities face grave shortages of staff and supplies, with the water, sewage and electricity infrastructure being in critical condition.</p> <p>Rates of cancer, leukemia and brain tumours, widely believed to have been caused by US weaponry, have been on the rise, some research suggesting that they rival those reported among survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p> <p>The US military’s report on the death toll in Iraq comes at a time when US President Barack Obama has reached his lowest ratings in US opinion polls ahead of crucial mid-term elections next month.</p> <p>The release of the statistics while Obama embarks on a campaign to drum up support for Democratic Party candidates cannot be a coincidence.</p> <p>By publishing a limited number of casualties in Iraq, the Obama administration may be hoping that it can go ahead with its policy of "turning the page" in Iraq, ending the US military presence in the country by the end of next year.</p> <p>Exiting from Iraq would benefit the Democratic Party, whose president vowed to end the legacy of the Republican Party and its president in Iraq. </p> <p>If all goes to plan, Iraq will no longer be front-page news in America, as US soldiers pack up to leave in order to help Democrats achieve some sort of hoped-for victory in next month’s elections.</p> <p>However, the very day this article was sent to print, a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq killed and wounded many people, serving as proof that the threat of death remains a part of daily life in the country.</p> <p>If Albright’s idea that the price paid by Iraqi civilians for US policy "is worth it" can serve as any sort of reminder in this sad chapter of Iraq’s history, then it should be that the US-led invasion has turned into a humanitarian tragedy, as well as an American national predicament.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1020/re3.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Death and body bags</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11262"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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لقب الاكبر على مستوى العالم وبهذا اصبح للموت في العراق وجوه اخرى في قافلة الحروب السائرة على ارضه, فتاريخ العراق وحاضره الحافل بالحروب والصراعات والثورات جعلت منه ارضا خصبة للموت.</p> <p>فطالما كانت رؤوس العراقيين مطلوبة وفي كل لحظة يحين وقت قطافها في المفهوم العراقي اليومي وبهاجس كاد يصل الى سكينة هي اقرب للامعقول عندما تبقى ارض الرافدين منذ القدم جبهات مفتوحة دوما للموت وكأن خطى سير العراقيين تترافق فيه الحياة مع الردى. اما مقبرته تلك فعرفت بمقبرة وادي السلام وتقع في جنوب العراق وتحديدا في مدينة النجف وهي موجودة منذ اكثر من الف عام, حيث تصطف فيها القبور الباهتة اللون المحدبة تارة والمستقيمة تارة اخرى على امتداد البصر بتجانس وسكون لا تكسره الا زينة بعض القبور التي احيانا ترتفع اكثر من غيرها كما تنثر فوقها بعض الزهور البلاستيكية الخالية هي الاخرى من الحياة لرغبة يائسة من الاهل في اظهار مزيد من الاهتمام بذلك الفقيد الذي هو ابعد ما يكون عن ادراك ذلك الاهتمام. وتبدو تلك القبور التي رافقت تاريخ العراق واوغل وجودها في عمق ماضيه وكأنها القت بعضها بعضا في عالم المنون حين تبدو متراصة ومتناغمة بجمودها. وتضم تلك المقبرة الملايين منهم انبياء وملوك ومشاهير وثوار وفقراء فقد دفن فيها نبيا الله هود وصالح (عليهما السلام) كما دفن فيها امير المؤمنين الامام علي بن ابي طالب (عليه السلام). كما كانت المقبرة مقرا لبعض المعارك التي خاضتها بعض المليشيات مع الجيش الامريكي فحتى الاموات كان لهم نصيب من قذائف الامريكيين. وتضم المقبرة قبور ضحايا المعارك التي خاضها العراق في العصر الحديث بدءا من معاركه ضد الاحتلال البريطاني في عشرينيات القرن الماضي إلى ضحايا العهد الملكي وضحايا الثورات العراقية المتتالية ثم ضحايا القادسية الثانية مع ايران والتي حصدت مئات الالاف من ارواح الجنود العراقيين ومرورا بضحايا الحصار حتى ضحايا الاحتلال الامريكي وما جلبه معه من دمار وخراب والذي ما زال يحصد حتى اليوم مزيدا من الارواح العراقية, وربما هذا ما جعل المقبرة تتوسع بنسبة أربعين في المئة تقريبا, حيث أضيفت نحو ثمانية كيلو مترات مربعة الى المساحة القديمة للمقبرة خلال هذه الفترة. كما تحدث البعض على ان فترة اشتداد العنف كانت تشهد دخول نحو مئتين وخمسين جنازة يوميا, فالعراق اليوم هو الاسوأ حيث ضحايا الامريكان المحتلين والسيارات المفخخة اليومية. وقد تحدث بعض العراقيين عن تلك المقبرة لكن الغريب انهم تحدثوا بمنتهى الالفة مع عوالم الموت والمجهول وكأن العراقيين اصبحوا متصالحين تماما مع فكرة الموت التي تحيط بهم في كل لحظة فقد قال ليث الدهان: أن تلك المقبرة كانت معروفة دوما بأنها اكبر مقابر العراق بمجرد النظر الى مدى اتساعها فهي انتشرت على مستوى وادي السلام وتحوي ملايين القبور حتى كادت ان تكون مدينة للاموات اكثر مما هي مقبرة لهم, كما ان هناك سيارات صغيرة تجوب المقبرة خلال شوارعها الترابية الضيقة لتنقل الزائرين والمشيعين فمن الصعوبة ان يجوبها احد سيرا بسبب اتساع مساحتها, كما تحدث الدهان عن القبور التي قال عنها بأنها تروي كلا منها تاريخ وتفاصيل العراق فما ان تتجول بين تلك القبور حتى ترى بين الحين والاخر صورا لشباب كتب تحت صورهم الراقدة على قبورهم بأنهم قتلوا في احدى معارك الحروب العراقية كما لا يخلو قبر من كتابة بعض الايات القرآنية, وايضا هناك من شيد بنيانا وهناك من انتقى من الشعر العربي القديم ليسطره على شاهد قبر قريب له واحيانا يكتب عتابا وكأن الميت يروي قصة قتله الجائر من دون ذنب واحيانا ترى قبورا مهترئة مجهولة يقال انها لأناس دفنوا منذ عقود ولم يعد هناك من يعرفهم. اما لطيف عجيل فأضاف هو الاخر قائلاً: ان ما مر به العراق من احداث جعلته دوما مسرحا مفعما بالموت وبالتالي ليس من الغريب ان تكون احد مقابره هي الاكبر على مستوى العالم اما عراقة بلاد النهرين هي الاخرى كفيلة بأن تكون تلك المقبرة الاقدم ايضا خاصة وان تاريخ العراق كان حافلا بالحروب والكوارث. فمن هولاكو مرورا بالاحتلال البريطاني والطاعون والكوليرا حتى السيارات المفخخة جعلت مقابر العراق جميعها تكتظ بالقبور من كثرة ساكينها. لكن رغم ذلك فما زال الاحياء من العراقيين يبحثون عن الحياة وان ضاق عليهم العيش.اما هناء علي: فأجابت باختصار من الطبيعي ان يكون للعراق اكبر مقبرة واصبحت الاسباب معروفة لكن اتمنى ان يكون للعراق يوم يجسد الحياة والفرح المفقود على ارضه. هذا وقد ادرجت منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلوم والثقافة (يونسكو) مقبرة وادي السلام الواقعة في مدينة النجف جنوبي العراق في لائحة التراث العالمي, لأن عمرها تجاوز الألف عام وتضم قبور العديد من الشخصيات التاريخية من أنبياء وملوك وشيوخ عشائر ومثقفين. لكنها ضمت بين طيات ثراها الكثير من 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April’s toll was a far cry from the dark days of all-out sectarian war in 2006/07 but remained high. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The monthly casualty statistics, issued by the interior, defence and health ministries, showed that 39 police officers, 15 soldiers and 48 insurgents were killed in April. The number of police killed was sharply lower than in previous months.</p> <p>Suspected insurgents staged a number of significant assaults last month, including a series of car bombs in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad that killed 56 people on April 23. </p> <p>Coordinated bombings across the capital destroyed seven buildings and killed 35 people on April 6 while suicide car bombers targeting foreign embassies killed 41 two days earlier. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>Three U.S. soldiers died from hostile fire in April, according to icasualties.org, the same number as the month before but up from one in February. </p> <p>U.S. forces are increasingly taking on a supporting role for their Iraqi counterparts as they prepare to end combat operations in August and withdraw completely by the end of 2011. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>استنكر ممثل المرجعية الدينية العليا في النجف الأشرف استهداف المجاميع التكفيرية والإجرامية مواكب العزاء الحسيني، في بعض مدن العراق. وكذلك الزوار العائدين من مدينة كربلاء المقدسة بعد أدائهم لمراسيم العزاء الحسيني. حيث سقط العشرات من الشهداء والجرحى. وكذلك استهداف أبناء مدينة الرمادي.</p> <p><a title="Abdul-Mahdi_al-Karbalai_nocaption" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3352716923/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" alt="Abdul-Mahdi_al-Karbalai_nocaption" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329im_/http://static.flickr.com/1396/3352716923_1483136425.jpg" align="left" border="0"/></a>وبين سماحة الشيخ (عبد المهدي الكربلائي) في خطبة صلاة الجمعة (15محرم الحرام 1431 هـ الموافق1/1/2010 م) التي أقيمت في الصحن الحسيني الشريف " أن هذه المجاميع الإرهابية لاتفرّق في أعمالها الإجرامية واستهدافها لطائفة معينة دون أخرى من طوائف الشعب العراقي ولا شريحة اجتماعية دون أخرى. بل هي تستهدف الجميع دون استثناء، شيعة وسنة ومسلمين ومسيحيين وعرباً وأكراداً حكومة ومواطنين ". موضحا " أن هذا الاستهداف للجميع يحفِّزُنا ويدفعنا – نحن أبناء هذا الشعب العراقي حكومة وشعبا وجميع الكتل السياسية من دون استثناء وجميع الطوائف والأعراق – لاتخاذ موقف وطني موحد، وان تتضافر جهودنا جميعاً للوقوف بوجه هذه الأعمال الإرهابية ومنعها من أن تنال من وحدة العراق وقوته وصموده وإيذاء شعبه " ..</p> <p>وعلل سماحته ذلك بأن " خطر تلك الجرائم عام وشامل للجميع دون استثناء. ولو أننا لم نتوحد لصدِّ هذه الأعمال الإجرامية ويتخذ بعضنا هذه الظروف وسيلة للمزايدات السياسية ولم ندرك جميعاً حجم هذه المخاطر على العراق وشعبه؛ فان الجميع سوف يخسر. وان السقف الذي يظلـلنا جميعاً – وهو سقف بلدنا العراق – والذي نريد أن نتفيأ بظلاله سيسقط في النهاية علينا جميعاً. وسنخسر حقوقنا ومصالحنا، وسوف لا نتمكن أن نبني العراق ونعمل لخيره وازدهاره ، لان نجاح هؤلاء الأشرار وإخفاقنا، يعني نجاح الشر والباطل وشيوع الدمار والخراب "..</p> <p>وبعد نجاح الزيارة المليونية لعاشوراء الحسين (عليه السلام) في هذه السنة، شكر الشيخ الكربلائي جميع المشاركين في مراسم العزاء، وكذلك الأجهزة الأمنية والخدمية لجهودهم الكبيرة في إنجاح هذه الزيارة. وكذلك وجه سماحته الشكر والتقدير للطائفة المسيحية في العراق، التي ألغت احتفالاتها بمناسبة ولادة السيد المسيح (على نبينا و آله وعليه أفضل التحية والسلام) تضامناً واحتراماً لمشاعر المحبين لأهل البيت (عليهم السلام) الذين يقيمون العزاء بمناسبة استشهاد سبط رسول الله (صلى الله عليه واله وسلم) … " وهذا يعبِّر عن روح المواطنة التي يحملها أبناء هذه الطائفة، لان من أهم أسس المواطنة، هو مشاركة مواطني البلد الواحد – مع قطع النظر عن انتماءاتهم الطائفية والعرقية – بعضهم مع البعض الآخر في أحزانهم وهمومهم وأفراحهم واحترام الخصوصيات المذهبية والدينية لكل طائفة ودين " ..</p> <p>واستشهد ممثل المرجعية الدينية العليا بما قد صرح به البعض من رؤساء هذه الطائفة " إن لموقف المرجع الديني الأعلى آية الله العظمى السيد السيستاني – دام ظله الوارف – من خلال مظلته الأبوية ورعايته لجميع المواطنين العراقيين من دون استثناء، تأثيره البالغ في هذه المبادرة الطيبة " ..</p> <p>وفي جانب آخر من خطبته تعرض سماحته عن بعض الأصوات التي تهدف إلى تمزيق الأمة الواحدة، وتفتيت أوصالها بقوله " طلع علينا رجل الدين السعودي (محمد العريفي) بكلام خلال خطبة الجمعة في العاصمة الرياض تضمن الإساءة لمقام المرجعية الدينية العليا في النجف الاشرف. وهو كلام نابٍ ولا يليق بخطيب جمعة في عاصمة دولة إسلامية كبيرة "… مبينا ما يلي:</p> <p>1- إن المرجعية الدينية العليا لا ترد على مثل هذا الكلام.لان مقامها أسمى وارفع من أن تردّ على ذلك. وان ينالها كلام هذا الرجل وأمثاله بسوء. وهي في هذا الموقع الرسالي والإلهي لا تقابل الإساءة إلا بالإحسان ..</p> <p>2- إن المسؤولين في ذلك البلد الذي خرج منه ذلك الصوت المفرِّق للأمة الإسلامية والذي جرح فيه مشاعر وأحاسيس مئات الملايين من المسلمين، يتحملّون المسؤولية عن صدور هذا الكلام والنتائج المترتبة عليه .. وذلك لان هذا الرجل ليس مواطناً عادياً. بل له موقع رسمي وموقع ديني متميّز في تلك الدولة. فهو خطيب جمعة في العاصمة لتلك الدولة.. ونُشِر كلامه من خلال مواقع إعلامية بعلم ورضى تلك الدولة. ومن الواضح انه لا قيمة لكلامه من دون هذا الموقع الرسمي والديني .. وبالتالي فان المسؤولين في تلك الدولة، إمّا أن يكونوا راضين عن هذا الكلام الذي يسيء لمئات الملايين من المسلمين فهم يتحملّون المسؤولية برضاهم هذا … وتساءل قائلا: كيف نستطيع أن نبني ونوثـّق العلاقات الإسلامية والأخوية فيما بيننا ونمد جسور المودة والمحبة ونزرع التآلف والتآزر فيما بيننا؟! كما ان رعاية تلك الدولة للمؤتمرات الإسلامية التي يراد منها توحيد الأمة إنما يقتضي إيقاف هؤلاء الخطباء عند حدِّهم لئلا يسيئوا للأمة الإسلامية ..</p> <p>وأضاف سماحته:وإما أنهم غير راضين عن مثل هذا الكلام فلماذا السكوت عليه؟! ولماذا لا يتخذون الإجراءات التي تضع حداً لمثل هذا الكلام الذي يسئ للأمة الإسلامية، لأنه يزرع الأحقاد والتفرقة فيما بينهم، بل يسئ أيضا لحكومة تلك الدولة. لان الكلام المذكور انطلق من عاصمتهم ومن صلاة جمعة… ويفترض من هؤلاء المسؤولين وهم يرعون في كل فترة مؤتمراً إسلاميا أن يضعوا حلاً لمثل هذا الكلام الذي يجرح مشاعر مئات الملايين من المسلمين..</p> <p>وفي معرض خطبته ذكـّر الشيخ الكربلائي بأن " يوم السبت 23 / محرم الحرام / 1431هـ يوافق ذكرى هدم قبة الإمامين العسكريين (عليهما السلام) وتوجه بدعوة المؤمنين لزيارة المرقد الشريف لتجديد العهد والولاء والمحبة والنصرة للإمامين العسكريين (عليهما السلام) بهذه المناسبة " .. كما دعا إلى أن تكون الشعارات والهتافات والردّات العزائية معبّرة عن روح الولاء والمحبة للائمة وبيان مظلوميتهم وفي نفس الوقت تدعو للوحدة والتآلف والمحبة بين أبناء الشعب العراقي. داعيا كذلك إلى الابتعاد عن أي كلام أو شعار أو هتاف يستفز مشاعر الآخرين ويجرح عواطفهم .. مطالبا الجميع بالتوحّد والتآلف والتآزر لحماية وطننا وشعبنا ولكي ننتصر على أعداء بلدنا وشعبنا ..</p> <p>وفي الختام توجه ممثل المرجعية الدينية العليا إلى أعضاء مجلس النواب الإسراع في إقرار الموازنة العامة لعام 2010م لان ذلك سيساهم في الإسراع بانجاز مشاريع الإعمار والمشاريع الخدمية في مختلف جوانبها الطبية والتربوية والتعليمية والبلدية وغيرها .. وبعكس ذلك سنحرم البلد والمواطن من هذه الفرصة وسنساهم في تأخير الانجاز لهذه الأعمال والخدمات التي يحتاجها المواطن، وأعرب عن أمله من أن تغلِّب الكتل السياسية مصالح هذا البلد على مصالحها الضيقة الفئوية خصوصا وان مجلس النواب في آخر الفصل التشريعي الأخير لدورته الحالية .. ولا بد أن نزرع الأمل والثقة لدى المواطن من خلال الإسراع بإقرار الموازنة ليكون ذلك دافعاً لتجارب المواطن مع الوضع السياسي الجديد في العراق ..</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7580"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/23/calamity-of-iraqs-orphans-morality-of-america/#respond" title="Comment on Calamity of Iraq’s Orphans & Morality of America">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/23/calamity-of-iraqs-orphans-morality-of-america/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Calamity of Iraq’s Orphans & Morality of America">Calamity of Iraq’s Orphans & 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About 800 orphans at the time of this report were being held in Iraqi prisons, 100 of these in American prisons, charged as terrorists, notes <b>Dennis Loo</b>.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><i>[This is a slightly edited version of a talk <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo" target="_blank" class="external">Dennis Loo</a> gave at a Fundraiser for Iraqi Orphans held on October 17, 2009 in Costa Mesa California.]</i></p> </p></div> <p>I want to thank the organizers of this important event. When I fly out of and back into LA, I look out the window and see the vast expanse of housing, buildings, and roads that we have here. </p> <p>It always amazes me when I fly over it at night and see the lights that fill the landscape, like starry sea creatures floating on the ocean’s surface. I ask that you now picture that as you think about the dimensions of the problem of children who have been orphaned by the US’s invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. </p> <p>If you imagine that everyone now living in the city of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, yourself, everyone here, and every single person outside of these doors, was an orphan, and that half a million of us were in addition to being orphans, forced into living in the streets without any shelter, then you get a small idea of the magnitude of the problem for Iraqi orphans today. </p> <p>According to the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs’ January 2008 Report, 4.5 million Iraqi children have been made orphans. Of these, only 459 orphans are in government care. I’ll say that again. Out of 4.5 million, only 459 children are in government care. 800 orphans at the time of this report were being held in Iraqi prisons, 100 of these in American prisons, charged as terrorists. </p> <p>Who is better off, I wonder, those in prison or those on the streets? </p> <p>What has caused this catastrophe? What has happened to the parents of these millions of orphans? What kind of disaster could have resulted in 4.5 million orphans in a country with a total population of 28 million as of 2008? </p> <p>In proportion to the US population of 310 million, this would mean the equivalent of 19.3 million US orphans. That’s the size of the combined populations, all ages, of our six biggest cities, New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia, all rendered orphans. </p> <p>What would Americans think and feel if this was happening to our country and our people? How angry would we be? How tolerant would we be of our occupiers responsible for this ongoing calamity? </p> <p>These are the crimes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and now, of Barack Obama, who has not ended this criminal war that has resulted, and is resulting, in the violent deaths of so many people in Iraq. These are the crimes of not just these individuals, however. This political system, which these presidents and high officials represent and defend, that allows and supports this ongoing crime against Iraq and against children, is to blame. </p> <p>Hundreds of these orphans, as I mentioned a few moments ago, are in prison. </p> <p>Conditions for detainees, as we know, are horrendous. Most, if not all, are subjected to atrocious conditions, many being tortured. US forces, not proxies, have personally and directly murdered at least a hundred people through torture. This is death by torture, from the Bush White House that claimed throughout its eight long year stolen tenure that the US does not torture. Now the man who promised change and who just won the Nobel Peace Prize has allowed torture to continue under his watch and previously announced that some 40,000 US troops will remain indefinitely in Iraq. </p> <p>This immoral war and ongoing occupation of Iraq has been responsible for the needless deaths and suffering of millions, with the death toll of over 1.2 million Iraqis and tens of thousands of US soldiers. (The 1.2 million Iraqis killed is also, by the way, corroborated by not only death certificates from most of those interviewed by the Lancet Report, but also by the 4.5 million children who have been orphaned – that is, deprived of their parents.) You might wonder why I’m saying tens of thousands of US dead. </p> <p>The official death toll of US personnel in Iraq is 4,349. This 4,349 figure is, we know, low because they transport some victims out of Iraq and take them elsewhere, making the count smaller for Iraq War casualties. But the largest numbers of dead really come from suicides. According to the Veteran’s Administration itself, eighteen vets have been committing suicide every day since the US’s April 2003 invasion of Iraq. If you do the math, this means that as of now over 40,000 US service personnel have died by suicide alone since the start of this war launched by Bush and Cheney and continued under Obama. </p> <p>Most people know by now that the Bush Regime’s WMD claims were a hoax, designed to provide a justification for an invasion and occupation that the neocons had been planning to carry out almost ten years before 9/11. </p> <p>Most people also know by now that Bush and Cheney’s alleged links between 9/11 and Hussein were phony, although a surprising number of Americans still believe this linkage exists. They believe this in part because they were told it so many times, in part because it was their government and media that said it again and again, so it “must be true,” and in part because it’s hard to admit that what you believed to be true for so long was completely false. Admitting that you had been taken in would mean that you have to re-evaluate what you thought and supported and because these were lies by this society’s leading figures. This would mean that you would probably have to radically revise how you thought about this country. That is a hard thing for many people to do. </p> <p>But coming to grips with this fundamental truth is vital. There is going to have to emerge more leaders from among the people, to join the relative handful of people (such as Cindy Sheehan) who have already stepped forward up to this point, to bring this truth again and again to people in a living, concrete, and compelling way. I say “again and again” because one event isn’t enough for most people to change their long-held attitudes. </p> <p>It requires persistent work and a great deal of determination and courage to do the work that must be done. We need people to be heralds to the people, people who will not sugarcoat the reality and spread comfortable illusions but who will tirelessly bring the hard truth to people. That truth can be very difficult to stomach, but it is the truth nonetheless. Truth today is both scarce and terribly precious. Truth is inherently potent. It has the hardness of diamonds and like diamonds, can cut anything else it touches or that tries to cut it. I will talk a bit later on in this about why I’m saying that. </p> <p>WMD and the linking of Hussein to 9/11, while hoaxes from the start, aren’t even the main aspect of the illegitimacy of this unprovoked aggression and ongoing occupation. They weren’t even the biggest lies. </p> <p>For even if Iraq had had WMD, the US invasion of Iraq would not have been justified. The US’s invasion of Iraq, according to the UN Charter and according to Nuremberg, represents the supreme war crime: invading a country that has not first attacked you. </p> <p>When you attack a country, moreover, you aren’t attacking just the government and military of that country. Modern warfare carried out by imperialist powers involves the deliberate targeting of civilians in a total war. The fact that targeting civilians is a war crime has not stopped imperialist powers from doing it. The orphaning of these kids in these massive numbers is a direct product of this government’s policies, with the collusion and cooperation of our mass media. </p> <p>As Judge Robert Jackson, the US prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of WW II war criminals, said, unprovoked aggression upon another country is the gravest war crime of all because it embodies within it all of the other war crimes, such as torture and the targeting of civilians. </p> <p>Moreover, attacking a country that has not first attacked you is also the supreme war crime because if it were not prohibited, then any scoundrel, any self-serving great or small power, could claim that another country was about to attack them, thereby necessitating their pre-emptive attack. If such an argument were allowed, there would be no way to prove that it was a ruse. Allowing such a rationale would open the door wide to any and all treacherous deeds masquerading as just wars. International law would be thereby rendered moot. </p> <p>As the US was everyday preparing to commit the ultimate war crime in the years before 2003, as the government and cooperative media were propagating the hoax of WMD and linking Hussein to the 9/11 plot, no major media outlet and no major political figure ever pointed out even once that unprovoked aggression was against international law. Some of us in the anti-war movement said it, over and over, but because of the blockade against truth erected by the corporate media and by the corporate parties of the GOP and the Democrats, this truth got heard by a relatively tiny number of people. Why didn’t the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times ever utter this little fact? Why did Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report forget about this little detail? Why didn’t this make it into any of the hundreds of nightly news broadcasts on ABC, CBS or NBC? Why wasn’t this on NPR? </p> <p>Had this been mentioned by even one of these esteemed outlets, what would the result of it have been? It would have made it starkly clear that the impending war was a war crime. It would have made the WMD argument much flimsier. It would have shown the government up as liars and made them look like they were overlooking an obvious matter and thus revealed them to be either stupid and ill-informed or deceitful. It would have sparked much more resistance to the war planners and it would have created a storm of controversy. Instead of a one-sided debate about whether to go to war it might have become a two-sided debate. The millions who demonstrated against the war before it began would have been given a huge weapon in the fight. </p> <p>So why didn’t this happen? Why didn’t even one journalist in the major media or one public official say these simple words: you cannot attack a country that hasn’t first attacked you? </p> <p>Had everyone in a position of prestige suddenly forgotten history and the law? Had Nuremberg suddenly become irrelevant? Was the UN Charter a dead letter? </p> <p>The rules appear to have changed. If you watch Bill Maher on HBO you’ll know that he ends his show with a piece he calls “New Rules.” There are new rules in place in this country. </p> <p>Under the old rules, there was a time when a major media outlet such as the New York Times ran a story that revealed a major government or corporate scandal, it would have been immediately picked up by other media outlets, initiated a Congressional investigation, and likely led to indictments, resignations, prosecutions, and at least talk of impeachment. This is no longer the way it works. </p> <p>To illustrate: </p> <p>The New Yorker Magazine is widely considered the most prestigious magazine in the country and arguably the world. The most esteemed investigative journalist we have, Seymour Hersh, ran a story called “The Redirection” in the New Yorker on March 7, 2007 in which he revealed two explosive facts: that the Bush White House had been a) funding clandestine forces in Iran against the Iranian government, and b) these forces were Sunnis, the same forces who were setting off IED’s against US forces in Iraq. </p> <p>Back in 2007 the Bush regime was rattling its sabers against Iran and preparing for a military attack upon Iran, initiated either by Israel or by the US. (I believe that the attack, by the way, never happened because the financial crisis exploded before they could launch the attack, crippling their credibility and campaign for such an attack.) The express justification for a military attack on Iran was that Iran was funding Sunni forces that were killing American soldiers in Iraq. Nuclear capability was also floated as a rationale. </p> <p>Never mind that Shiites are in power in Iran and never mind that Shiites and Sunnis don’t get along. According to Hersh’s article, the Bush regime was supporting the very forces that it was claiming were killing US personnel in Iraq. By the logic of their campaign to justify an attack on Iran, the White House itself was therefore contributing directly to the deaths of American GI’s. By their own reasoning then, the White House should have bombed itself as enemies of America. </p> <p>So Sy Hersh, our most credible and famous investigative journalist, the man who broke the story about the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, shows the Bush regime’s arguments to be bald faced lies. And his story runs in the most prestigious magazine in America. </p> <p>What happened to the story? Did it spark a hue and cry and calls for heads to roll? No. It hardly gets picked up by any of the rest of the mainstream media. Progressive and left media feature it and give the story the attention it deserves, but that’s it. This would be the equivalent in political news of an item in entertainment news of finding out that Paris Hilton was really a man and the story runs in the LA Times and nobody else does a story about it. </p> <p>So here are the new rules: whatever the US wants to do in pursuit of empire is fine by the mainstream media and two major political parties with at most a few voices raising relatively minor objections in the face of an incessant patriotic drumbeat of support for such measures, reverberating between right-wing media and corporate media, and between Congressional representatives and senators in a virtual echo chamber. </p> <p>If, in the pursuit of those ends for empire, the US engages in torture, pre-emptive wars, indefinite detention (including, as Obama said recently, even if you’re acquitted by a criminal trial or by a Military Tribunal, he reserves the right to hold you still), rendition, wholesale murder, the express violation of the rule of law, treating the Congressional branch of government as a rubber stamp rather than a co-equal branch of government, using media as fundamentally a propaganda organ to cynically manipulate public opinion, pre-emptive arrests and the admitted use of agents provocateurs upon protestors (who, by their own illegal acts as undercover officers, can create the pretext for police crackdowns on legal protest, thus giving the government carte blanche to prevent legal protest from happening at all whenever they wish to do so), and declaring peaceful protesters to be “unlawful assemblies” and using police forces and military equipment and tactics heretofore used in war theatres such as what was used at the G20 protests in Philadelphia recently to disperse crowds, then it is all OK. </p> <p>The war’s unpopularity and its disastrousness contributed to the GOP’s defeat in 2008 (and, in fact, their defeat in 2004 as well). But Obama, being the beneficiary of that unpopularity and winning on a promise that he would undo what Bush had done, hasn’t done what many people thought – or hoped that – he would do. He is, instead, carrying forward these wars and occupations, expanding the war upon Pakistan with drone attacks, and going even further than Bush and Cheney did in negating civil liberties, thereby legitimating the egregious acts launched under Bush. </p> <p>Because Iraq is not in the news much anymore and because Obama came into office on a superficially “anti-Iraq war” stance, to many Americans the war is almost as if it’s no longer going on. This is much like what has happened to Gitmo. Obama announced the day after taking office that he was closing Gitmo, so a lot of people think that the deed is done or nearly done. This brings me back to a point I made a few minutes ago about the potency of truth. </p> <p>We live in a time where rhetoric is treated as action (where saying you will or want to do something is regarded as the equivalent of actually doing those things) and lies (even those subsequently revealed very publicly to be lies) are treated as if they were truth. Some people look at this and are discouraged, throwing their hands up. I look at this, and I urge you to do the same, in a different way. I look at this, and while it is maddening, I see an opportunity. In the face of the moral depravity guiding this country’s political leadership and their daily diet of lies passing as truth, there’s an opening. It’s not a large opening. </p> <p>It’s a small opening because the powers that be have a lot of power and the complacency and ignorance of among all-too many Americans has no peer worldwide. But the very nature of this system as it lurches forward with its designs is that it must try to silence any critics and engage in duplicity and atrocious, illegal, and immoral practices. In so doing, it inevitably provokes more people against it and it leaves itself open to profound and wide-ranging exposure as bankrupt. Window dressing war crimes doesn’t change the grisly fact of those crimes. </p> <p>As I wrote in my book, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://www.amazon.com/Impeach-President-Case-Against-Cheney/dp/1583227431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256306266&sr=8-1" target="_blank" class="external">Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney</a>, back in 2006: </p> <p>“The powers we must overcome have mountains of money and their hands on the levers of institutional power, including most of the mass media. But we have three things they don’t and can’t have: justice, truth and the majority of people on our side. You can douse a rotting pile of manure with as much perfume as you want, but it’s still going to smell. The gap between what the government and their apologists say they’re doing and what they are actually doing grows wider by the day. They can say that Homeland Security and FEMA are on the job, but New Orleans proves them wrong. They can claim they’re winning the war on terror and the war in Iraq, but everyday the facts belie their claims. They can assure us that they’re protecting our civil liberties and doing everything by the book, but nearly every week brings fresh revelations of their lawbreaking.” </p> <p>This is still as true today as it was when I wrote it in 2006</p> <p><strong>Source</strong>: <a title="Calamity of Iraq’s Orphans &amp; Morality of America" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35197" class="external" target="_blank">Calamity of Iraq’s Orphans &amp; Morality of America</a> by Dennis Loo  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/" target="_blank" class="external">Middle East Online</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-5320"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/02/06/iraq-no-unemployment-among-gravediggers/#respond" title="Comment on IRAQ: No Unemployment Among Gravediggers">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/02/06/iraq-no-unemployment-among-gravediggers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to IRAQ: No Unemployment Among Gravediggers">IRAQ: No Unemployment Among Gravediggers</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/category/war-crimes/" title="View all posts in War Crimes" rel="category tag">War Crimes</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/civilian-casualties/" rel="tag">Civilian casualties</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-squads/" rel="tag">Death Squads</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-toll/" rel="tag">death toll</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ips/" rel="tag">IPS</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ips-reports/" rel="tag">IPS Reports</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/politics-and-security/" rel="tag">Politics and Security</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>As of this hour, exactly, there are 5,500 bodies in this place. I log their names in my book, but we’ve never had anyone come from the government to ask how many people are here. Nobody in the media nor the Ministry of Health seems to be interested.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>BAGHDAD, Feb 5 (</strong><a title="IPS" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235329/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45680" class="external" target="_blank">IPS</a><strong>) – Amidst the soaring unemployment in Iraq, the gravediggers have been busy. So busy that officials have no record of the number of graves dug; of the real death toll, that is.</strong></p> <p>"I’ve been working here four years," a gravedigger who gave his name as Ali told IPS at the largest cemetery in Baghdad, a sprawling expanse in the Abu Ghraib section of the capital city. "In 2006 and some of 2007, we buried 40- 50 people daily. This went on for one-and-a-half years. </p> <p>"Twenty-five percent of these were from violence, and another 70 percent were killed by the Mehdi Army (the militia of Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr)." Only a few appeared to have died from natural causes. </p> <p>"Most of the dead were never logged by anyone," Ali said, "because we didn’t check death certificates, we just tried to get the bodies into the ground as quickly as possible." </p> <p>An Iraqi Army checkpoint was set up outside the vast cemetery a year ago. </p> <p>"We opened this checkpoint because people were burying the dead and no information was being given to anyone," a soldier, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, told IPS. </p> <p>"Most of this (lack of reporting the dead), we found, happened during 2006," the soldier added. "Anyone could be buried here, and nobody would know about it." </p> <p>Not far, in the Al-Adhamiya area of Baghdad, what used to be a park is now a cemetery with more than 5,000 graves. According to the manager, most of the dead are never counted. </p> <p>"Most of the bodies buried here are never reported in the media," Abu Ayad Nasir Walid, 45, manager of the cemetery told IPS. He has been the manager here since the park was converted into a cemetery amidst the bloodletting from sectarian violence in early 2006. </p> <p>"I have the name here of the first martyr buried," Walid said, pointing to a tombstone. "Gaith Al-Samarai, buried on 21 May 2006, he was the sheikh of the Al-Hurria mosque." </p> <p>Latif produced the cemetery logbook. "As of this hour, exactly, there are 5,500 bodies in this place. I log their names in my book, but we’ve never had anyone come from the government to ask how many people are here. Nobody in the media nor the Ministry of Health seems to be interested." </p> <p>Such graveyards, and there are many, raise questions about the real death toll in Iraq. </p> <p>The last serious study, by a group of doctors in the U.S. and Iraq, was published in the British peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet on Oct. 11, 2006. </p> <p>The study said about 655,000 Iraqis (2.5 percent of the population) had been killed as a direct result of the invasion and occupation. The research was carried out on the ground by doctors moving from house to house, questioning families, and examining death certificates. </p> <p>Homes were surveyed in 47 separated clusters across Iraq. The Lancet says the study, carried out by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore in the U.S., has been validated by four independent experts. </p> <p>The worst of the violence followed the Feb. 22, 2006 bombing of the Al- Askari shrine in Samarra. The bombing of one of the most sacred Shia mosques in the world sparked sectarian violence that lasted months, with sometimes more than 300 killed in a day. </p> <p>"During that time we buried 30-40 bodies daily," Sehel Abud Al-Latif, a gravedigger at the Al-Adhamiya cemetery told IPS. "Often we had to work through the night, otherwise the bodies would just remain outside." </p> <p>Some estimates of the death toll have been considerably lower than that of The Lancet. The group Iraq Body Count (IBC), which describes itself as an "ongoing human security project," estimates the number to be 98,850 as of the time of this writing. </p> <p>The group says on the methodology: "Deaths in the database are derived from a comprehensive survey of commercial media and NGO-based reports, along with official records that have been released into the public sphere." </p> <p>IBC adds that figures are included from "incident-based accounts to figures from hospitals, morgues and other documentary data-gathering agencies." </p> <p>The website adds, however, that "IBC’s main sources are information gathering and publishing agencies, principally the commercial news media who provide web access to their reports." Also, the IBC only records violent deaths, and only those of civilians. </p> <p>The unofficial cemeteries around Iraq hold their own additions to the numbers doing the rounds. 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