*U.S. MERCENARIES RUNNING AMOK AROUND THE GLOBE
*
**
*The U.N. began a review of U.S. human rights in November, concluding to
date that our mercenaries are out of control
<http://www.truth-out.org/beyond-wikileaks-files-the-privatization-war66239>,
all over the planet. They have been involved in executions, torture,
arbitrary detention, human trafficking, environmental poisoning, and
other criminal activity, at great financial cost to U.S. taxpayers as
war becomes increasingly privatized.
The military has been privatized for one reason, it creates massive
profit for the ruling Forces of Greed
<http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm> (FOG) and their Nuclear Mafia
<http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Mafia.htm> branch. Their flunkies in
Congress overlook the fact that privatization vastly increases the cost
of war, since the FOG fund their campaigns for reelection.
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*OBAMA WAGES GREAT WAR ON TERRORISM!
*
**
*President Obama is getting great reviews from **Mike McConnell, who
served as the Director of National Intelligence under President Bush.
Pooh Poohing those who criticize Obama for the way he wages his wars,
the Chief Bush spook said yesterday
<http://www.truth-out.org/bush-intelligence-chief-obama-has-been-aggressive-if-not-more-aggressive-pursuing-terrorists66284>
that "**Both general Hayden and I served in the previous administration
and we got a lot of criticism for being aggressive, and so on. ... *My
observation is that the new administration has been as aggressive, if
not more aggressive in pursuing these issues."
**
**Obama has increased defense spending, expanded the wars into Yemen and
Pakistan, and greatly increased the numbers of troops in Afghanistan,
apparently to the delight of National Security State insiders like
McConnell.
**
**McConnell was selling out the taxpayers as *director of defense
programs at Booz Allen Hamilton before Dick Cheney enticed him to become
Director of National Intelligence, where he set about privatizing more
of national intelligence so that big profit can be made from spook
activity. Us peasants are not allowed to know how much, because, like
so much of what our government does in what corporate media call our
"open and free democracy," it is secret. All of the really big scams
are secret. *
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**One of the more evil things our mass media have done is cover up the
numbers slaughtered in the "war on terrorism." The slaughter itself is
never considered to be a terrorist act by the /New York Times, Newsweek,
/or/MSNBC/. They have their agenda, and it always mirrors that of the
/National Security State/ <http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm>
--Jack
**
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*THE MUSLIM HOLOCAUST <http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Opinion.htm>
*
/*The legacy of American war on Afghanistan and Iraq*/
*
*
*by Jack Balkwill*
*American mass media have covered up the most important fact in the
ongoing wars -- the number of people slaughtered.From the initial
invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq major media have served as cheerleaders
for the bloodshed, spreading the lies that led us to war.*
*As an old combat vet still shocked by what I saw 45 years ago in
Vietnam, where we slaughtered more millions in war based on lies, I
decided to look into what is happening in the current war, discovering
that as many as seven million innocents may have been slaughtered in
Afghanistan and Iraq.*
*I first looked for government or mass media reports for this article,
but found little help from them, concluding they are not at all
interested in the victims of war.*
*The charge of a cover up by mass media seems obvious, as it is
unconscionable that major media, a multi-billion dollar industry, could
not find the numbers.It seems obvious as well that such numbers would
shock the public and turn them against the wars, perhaps the reason for
the silence of mass media in contributing to their avid war support by
adhering to the words of General Tommy Franks that "We don't do body
counts."*
*As far as the people of Iraq are concerned, the Iraq war is now more
than 20 years old.It began in 1990 with deadly economic sanctions
imposed on Iraq, followed by a 1991 attack by President George HW Bush
against Iraqi forces, continuing with sanctions after the hot war ended,
more hot war with President Clinton's Operation Desert Fox, and
continued sanctions until lifted in 2003 with the Iraq invasion, while
the occupation still crawls forward.*
*In 2001, Iraqi Cultural Minister Hamid Yusuf Hammadi, speaking at a
conference against the UN embargo, estimated that 1.7 million Iraqis
died
<http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/170/41919.html>as
a result of the sanctions and other violence directed against Iraq by
the USA up to that time under presidents GHW Bush and Clinton.*
*Before that, in 1996, Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark estimated
that 1.5 million Iraqis died <http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Ramsey.html>
as a result of the sanctions, bringing charges against the USA and
others for genocide.*
*But all of that suffering was before Shock and Awe.*
*In 2007, Opinion Research Business of London estimated the number of
Iraqis killed in the 2003 invasion of that country and following war up
to that time to be 1.2 million
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey_of_Iraq_War_casualties>, based
on face to face interviews with 1,720 adults aged 18+ throughout Iraq
(1,499 agreed to answer the question on household deaths).*
*Taking these numbers from the invasions, sanctions and occupation of
Iraq alone, we are already over 2.5 million dead.*
*And then there is the Afghanistan affair.*
*In 2001, President George W Bush authorized an invasion of Afghanistan,
where, we were told at the time, 7 million people were being fed by
NGO's because they were on the verge of starvation, meaning they would
die in a short time without emergency food.*
*Noam Chomsky reported in 2002
<http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20020201.htm> on the time of the
invasion, "A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warned
that 'We are facing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in
Afghanistan with 7.5 million short of food and at risk of starvation,'
while aid agencies leveled 'scathing' condemnations of U.S. air drops
that are barely concealed 'propaganda tools' and may cause more harm
than benefit, they warned."*
*No one has counted how many Afghans starved to death as a result of the
invasion, as NGOs who had been feeding people on the verge of starvation
had to withdraw because of the bombing.Those starving people were among
the poorest on earth, probably lacking birth and death certificates, so
we may never know what happened to them.*
*Australian scientist Gideon Polya did a study of the effect of war on
the Afghanistan population and concluded that as a result of the
invasion and occupation up to 2009,"This carnage involving 4.5 million
post-invasion violent and non-violent excess Afghan deaths
<http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/>
constitutes an Afghan Holocaust and an Afghan Genocide as defined by
Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention."*
*So if this estimate is correct, there are 4.5 million dead in
Afghanistan as a result of the invasion and occupation.Combined with the
2.5 million who died from twenty years of war and sanctions in Iraq, we
arrive at the rough figure of 7 million dead.*
*But if 7 million people died, why is it that few seem aware of these
numbers?After all, anyone you ask on the street can tell you 6 million
Jews died in the Holocaust. Why aren't 7 million Muslims important
enough to notice?*
*The owners, board members and advertisers of our mass media are
interlocked in "defense" contracting investments, and the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan are the most lucrative in history, with more contractors
in both Iraq and Afghanistan than there are troops.*
*Our politicians own "defense" investments as well, and their political
campaigns depend on contributions from "defense" industries, at great
expense to taxpayers.Many Members of Congress legally vote for "defense"
projects which personally enrich them because of their investments.*
*Even though the majority of the public oppose the wars and want our
troops to come home, it is imperative to the corporate media and
corporate government, and those above them (the ruling Forces of Greed
<http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm>) that as much support as
possible be maintained to keep the wars going.*
*If the public were informed that as many as 7 million people might have
been slaughtered, more war supporters might fall off the bandwagon,
making it harder to keep the bloodshed flowing for the billions in profit.*
*It would appear that violence has become the primary diplomatic tool of
our government.Gandhi said "I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."*
*Our government and mass media are still covering up the evil, but it
may be permanent for seven million.*
*http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Opinion.htm*
*Jack Balkwill has written for publications as varied as the little-read
English Honor Society's /Rectangle/ to the millions of readers /USA
Today/.He may be reached at [email protected]***
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