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Titolo: Fallujah pogrom Because Americans hate flowers

in Afghanistan: "The annual death rate is 7% for under-5 year old
Occupied Afghan infants, as compared to 4% for Poles in Nazi-occupied
Poland, and 5% for French Jews in Nazi-occupied France."
The U.S., and U.K. have outdone the Nazis.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities." François-Marie Arouet -"Voltaire" (1694-1778.)
Io aggiungo trovando i polli dementi che se le bevono, ma quelli non
mancano mai.
I have a deeply held belief that the duty of a commentator is, to the
best of one's ability, to record, to shine light in often dark places,
to act as a voice for those whose own voice, fears, plights might not
be heard or known. To write about the emotions one sometimes feels
when doing it, is an anathema and anyway a redundancy.
The purpose is to attempt to draw attention to wrongs, not to whinge
about the effects they can have - and any way, a private life should
be just that. If politicians wish to strip themselves of their dignity
and allude to everything from their sex life, to using private grief
to gain sympathy votes, those with a shred of self-respect do not wish
to emulate them. Here, I am breaking my taboo, for a reason.
Over the last several weeks I have again researched in depth,
invasion's atrocities in Iraq, unearthing the unthinkable, switching
off emotion and reading of terror, torture, monstrous wickednesses,
word after sickening word.
Then, Fallujah revisited (1) with document after document revealing
the depth of the darkest depravities towards others, which can be
plumbed, by "some mother's son" - or daughter. Indeed, some child's
father or mother, able to shoot the children, toddlers, babies of
others, in cold blood, drive over them in tanks, leaving the pathetic
remains to be eaten by stray dogs.
Photographs viewed have included many which even hardened
investigators have deemed: "too disturbing to view."
This is not a view I hold. If family members who have survived,
emergency workers (when not incinerated by U.S., troops themselves)
medical staff, if not shot, imprisoned, tortured, or tied up with a
bag over their head) can view, identify, bury with love and respect -
or in the case of medical staff, carefully photograph, and note time,
location of finding, then number, wrap and retain for a period, before
burial, hoping a relative will claim the charred, mutilated, or worse,
remains.
It is a duty for those with any "voice", from countries responsible
for this first documentable U.S., U.K., genocide of the 21st century,
to draw attention to it, in the memory of and in tribute to, the
voiceless, nameless, uncounted victims, in the hope that eventually,
legal recourse might result.
In fact it was compassion which over came all - bodies and faces
burned near beyond recognition, or the eviscerated, the all with the
eyes, often, still staring out in a desperate silent plea for help,
combined with utter bewilderment.
"We have the scumbags on the run", wrote a marine on his website. "We
lit them up", wrote another, as many took photographs of these lost
souls - and sent them to porn sites in exchange for free viewing. And
between the U.S., occupiers (now, surreally, re-branded "advisors" -
same car, new paint) and what Hussein al-Alak of the Iraq Solidarity
Campaign has called: " the U.S., imposed Vichy government, with their
foreign passports ..", who will fight for justice for the Iraqis?
And, as since 1991, this is also a war against the unborn, new born
and under fives.
After the bodies and the rubble, the gore, blood and limbs, there are
the deformities.
The fledgling life, born without eyes, brain, with one cyclops eye,
with no head, with two heads, with no limbs, or fingers - or too
many.
A biblical land turned to genetic and ecological Armageddon, for
current and future generations, till the end of time. "Mission
accomplished", said George W. Bush, in his ridiculous little flying
suit, on the USS Abraham Lincoln on 1st May 2003. "Let freedom reign",
he scribbled, after the first, corrupt, murderous, corpse-littered
"elections". Result: "Let genocide commence."
As I read, I listened to the great and the good in various world legal
bodies discuss whether the Congo and Rwanda should be "classed" as
genocide. In July 2004, as U.S., troops were training for the Fallujah
massacre, the coming November, the U.S., House of Representatives
passed a unanimous resolution calling the tragedy of Darfur:
"Genocide.
" They asked the administration to consider "Multilateral or even
Unilateral" action, to end this genocide.
Reluctance to take proactive steps to prevent further loss of human
life was "criminal", they opined.
Seemingly genocides these days are only committed by Africans or
Eastern Europeans, not those great bastions of democracy, U.S., U.K.,
and the "only democracy in the Middle East", ally Israel.
The Israeli Defence Force, trained U.S., troops for the two week
November 2004, Fallujah pogrom. (2) "If it moves, shoot it", was the
order of the day.
As two world wars, as Korea, Vietnam, the face of liberation never
changes.
"Their tactics basically involve massive fire power ... bringing in
tanks and helicopters to fire on targets ... demolishing buildings,
establishing snipers on roofs, smashing holes in walls (and) shooting
anything that moved." This in addition to:  " ... aerial bombardment
and shell fire from large field guns.
" The plight of Fallujah: "Was not fully understood in the West, save
by some of the survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto ... they were trapped
(like) rabbits in a cornfield", being circled to be mown down and
dismembered by combine harvesters.
(3)The photographs are testimony to the chilling description.
The unsung heroes are those who determined to record them, so some
time, some where, the crimes would be known and legal retribution
sought.
These terrible, pathetic images, are the silent testimony to the first
known Western genocide of the 21st century.
Sadly, it is a near certainty that Iraq and Afghanistan will, in time,
produce proof of more.
On visits to Iraq during the embargo years, when there was the silent
genocide over nearly thirteen years of the U.S.-U.K.,- driven U.N.,
embargo's prohibition of all necessary to sustain the basics of life,
with children dying of "embargo-related causes", at an average of six
thousand a month, witnessing the heartbreak, the bafflement at their
plight, the terrible guilt was always leaving.
One saw and shared to some extent, the unimaginable, being perpetrated
in one's name, then one left.
Across the border, in Jordan, the lights were on, the towns bustled,
clean water came out of the taps, and the illegal American and British
bombs were not dropping. Yet so near, the children were dying, the
people were dying, in the name of "We the people ..."
The people of Iraq, with their destroyed homes and gardens, fruit
groves, date palm groves, or their vibrant plantings on balconies or
flat roofs; the Palestinians, suffering the same plight for sixty two
interminable years, and the people of Afghanistan in their flattened
compounds, destroyed with their scented groves and gardens of blossoms
and apricots, live a nightmare from which they never awake.
I thought again of the Iraqi child, whose parents had a beautiful
garden, who showed a friend and I her drawing book, before the
invasion.
One picture had an abundance of flowers, carefully colored, in
numerous hues,  on the side were American soldiers - shooting at the
flowers. "Why are the soldiers shooting the flowers?" We asked.
"Because Americans hate flowers", she replied solemnly.
It was a deeply saddening moment, that she represented so many
children, who saw American as representing only wrath, fear and
deprivation.
She knew nothing of those Americans who had worked tirelessly to
reverse the situation.
If she has survived, she will be a young adult.
She is unlikely to have changed her views.
In the U.K., Scottish parliamentarian, Dr Bill Wilson (4) is ploughing
a determined path to bring Tony Blair to justice. In furtherance of
this, he has now written to Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond and
Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill, calling for Scotland
to adopt the recently agreed international definition of the crime of
aggression into its legislature.
His letter reads:
"The International Criminal Court’s Review Conference of the Rome
Statute in Kampala (5) earlier this year adopted a resolution by which
it amended the Statute so as to include a definition of the crime of
aggression and the conditions under which the Court could exercise
jurisdiction with respect to the crime.  The actual exercise of
jurisdiction is subject to a decision to be taken after 1 January 2017
by the same majority of States Parties as is required for the adoption
of an amendment to the Statute.  However, I believe that there is now
no legal obstacle to individual countries adopting the new definition
of the crime of aggression into their own legislatures.  I hope you
will agree with me that it would be to Scotland’s credit if we could
be one of the first countries to do this, and it would be a fine
legacy for the present Scottish Government to leave as it nears the
end of its term."
He commented that, further, since the The International Criminal Court
has now  agreed on a definition of the crime of aggression: "I believe
that although the ICC itself cannot prosecute on the basis of this for
the time being, there is no impediment to individual countries
adopting the definition into their own legislatures immediately.  If
Scotland did so, it would be an excellent example to the rest of the
world and would send the clear message that we respect international
law here.  It would also create a powerful incentive for present and
future UK Governments to think carefully before embarking on warfare.
“I think most Scots would not wish to see a repeat of the tragedy we
have seen unfold in Iraq.
This might be a way of preventing such misguided ventures in the
future.” Dr Wilson, is adamant: Scotland is in a position to: "...
lead ethically in adopting the crime of aggression definition", and
has legal advise which concurs. Dr Wilson plans to use Fallujah as an
example of this aggression, but also points out there there are surely
numerous others, undocumented, as yet.
As John Pilger reminds, Blair promised that the (illegal) invasion of
Baghdad would be " ... without a bloodbath and that Iraqis in the end
would be celebrating ... In fact, the criminal conquest of Iraq
smashed a society, killing up to a million people, driving four
million from their homes, contaminating cities such as Fallujah with
cancer-causing poisons and leaving a majority of young children
malnourished in a country once described by Unicef as a 'model.'
" (New Statesman, 30th September, 2010.)
As Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, now seem to be in would be imperial
sights, a precedent which will flag a up a warning sign to leaders of
ill intent, is surely needed. Dr Gideon Polya, who's work on excess
deaths from invasions since 1950, states, in Afghanistan: "The annual
death rate is 7% for under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants, as
compared to 4% for Poles in Nazi-occupied Poland, and 5% for French
Jews in Nazi-occupied France."
The U.S., and U.K., whose leaders have trumpeted the dangers of the
latest "new Hitler" in the countries they planned to decimate, have
outdone the Nazis.
Enough.

 atrocities." François-Marie Arouet -"Voltaire" (1694-1778.)
Sì sì, poveri bambini innocenti, vedete cosa li hanno fatto pensare.