Murdochracy,
Rudd Labor And Australian complicity In Iraqi Genocide
By
Dr Gideon Polya
08 December,
2007
Countercurrents.org
Permitted
by king-maker media mogul Rupert Murdoch but not supported by his newspapers
in Australia, the new Rudd Labor Australian Government (sworn in on
Monday 3 December 2007) will only PARTLY remove Australian forces from
Iraq, making Rudd Labor clearly and unequivocally complicit in the continuing
Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 1.5-2 million). Rudd Labor
is thus renewing Australian complicity in the Iraqi Genocide and going
against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of Australians who oppose
Australia’s participation in the Iraq War.
As reported
by the UK Guardian newspaper (1 December, 2007: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2220119,00.html
), even before he was sworn in as PM, Australia’s new leader Kevin
Rudd had stated “"The combat force in Iraq we would have
home by around about the middle of next year". However that means
committing Australian forces to over 6 months more in Occupied Iraq
and will leave hundreds of Australian defence personnel indefinitely
in Occupied Iraq and the Gulf.
As a responsible scientist and citizen, on Day #2 of the newly-elected
Rudd Government I published a detailed and documented “Rudd Australia
Report Card #1. Continued Australian and US Coalition war crimes in
Occupied Iraq” (see: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=142
). The main features of this damning Report about Rudd Australia
and Occupied Iraq are listed succinctly below:
1. the Coalition
invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal, was based on false evidence
and has led to what some outstanding US, UK and Australian writers call
an “Iraqi Holocaust” and “Iraqi Genocide” (genocide
as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html
);
2. there
have been 0.8-1.2 million post-invasion excess violent deaths (UK ORB:
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78
and http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190907.htm
) and US Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
http://www.countercurrents.org/burnham230907.htm
);
3.there have
been 0.7-0.8 million post-invasion non-violent excess deaths (UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html
and UN Population Division: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ );
4. there
have been 1.5-2.0 million post-invasion excess deaths (summation of
the foregoing data);
5. there
have been 0.6 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html
and UN Population Division: http://esa.un.org/unpp/
);
6. there
have been over 1.1 million US-caused Iraqi deaths according to the prestigious
Just Foreign Policy organization: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
);
7. there
are currently 4.5 million refugees (UNHCR: http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/10294
and the BRussells Tribunal: http://www.brusselstribunal.org/
);
8. eminent
scholars and writers who decry “Iraqi Holocaust” and/or
an “Iraqi Genocide” include Dr Mark Weisbrot (President
of Just Foreign policy: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/68568/
), Dr Paul Craig Roberts (eminent US writer, academic, editor and Father
of Reaganomics: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10162007.html
) and John Pilger (outstanding, award-winning Australian-UK writer and
journalist: http://www.newstatesman.com/200711150033
); indeed what is clearly an Iraqi Holocaust also constitutes an
Iraqi Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention
(see: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html
);
9. a major
cause of the 0.7-0.8 million non-violent post-invasion excess deaths
in Occupied Iraq is the war criminal Occupier non-provision of life-sustaining
food and medical requisites in gross violation of Articles 55 and 56
of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm
; the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” permitted
in Occupied Iraq by Occupier Australia and the US Coalition is $135
(2004) as compared to $2,560 (UK), $3,123 (Australia) and $6,096(the
US) (see WHO: http://www.who.int/en/
and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17066/42/
);
10. a previous
government Minister and now Leader of the Opposition has admitted that
oil was a major factor in the government’s decision to keep troops
in Iraq (see: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2739741.ece
);
11. according
to a 2007 survey by the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 67%
of Australians polled opposed Australia’s presence in Iraq (see:
http://sydney.edu.au/us-studies/docs/Survey_Murray_OpEd.pdf
) i.e. Australians are overwhelmingly opposed to continued Australian
participation in the Iraq War; and
12. in various
polls conducted in recent years about 70-90% of Iraqis want the foreign
Occupiers to leave (see: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/686/35610
; http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=18574
).
Yet much
of what is outlined above is IGNORED by Murdoch-dominated Australian
Mainstream media and politicians in a process of sustained, racist holocaust
ignoring and holocaust denial. Indeed there is an urgent need for all
Australians to be made aware of their complicity in the 25 million excess
deaths in the post-1950 US Asian Wars (see “Body Count. Global
avoidable mortality since 1950”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
).
Australia
is indeed the Land of Lies and Flies and must be described as an egregiously
dishonest, politically correct racist (PC racist) Murdochracy.
Many Australians
pragmatically accepted that in order to win the recent election Labor
leader Kevin Rudd had to accommodate to the Murdoch-dominated Mainstream
media and to a selfish, mercenary and ignorant Murdoch media-brainwashed
electorate. However Rudd Labor - even before it was sworn into office
- effectively renewed Australian complicity in the continuing Iraqi
Genocide against the overwhelming wishes of the Australian and Iraqi
people.
Similarly,
Australians are overwhelmingly concerned about climate change but the
Rudd Labor Government is committed to a grossly deficient greenhouse
gas reduction target of “60% reduction by 2050” but with
no reduction of fossil fuel exports (Australia is the world’s
#1 coal exporter and a major natural gas exporter) – this will
in reality mean an 80% INCREASE in CO2 emissions by 2050 as compared
to the 80% REDUCTION demanded by an overwhelming international scientific
consensus (see: “Australia Labor victorious – but not green
enough”: http://green-blog.org/2007/11/28/australian-labor-victorious-but-not-green-enough/
).
What can decent people around the world do about this Murdochratic travesty?
Decent people can only (a) inform everyone they can in relation to genocide
and akin atrocities and (b) act ethically in all their dealings with
those complicit in such outrages against humanity e.g. by international
Sanctions and Boycotts against climate criminal, climate genocidal,
war criminal and Iraqi Genocide-complicit Australia.
Dr
Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific
career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical
Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
and
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
).
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