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Nice source. How about one that's not a bit "skewed" to say the least?
Oh, yes, the "oil for food" program that was raped by the UN officials. They're disappointed it's not there any more; it was their cash cow.
Babykiller? That's nice. I'll have to keep that one in mind next time I get to go to the sandbox. I'll keep that in mind when I see US military hospitals treating kids and women that were injured in a car bomb explosion from insurgents. You know, the real ones that are killing civilians in Iraq.
See? Typical of some people. It's our (The US) money. We can spend it any way we choose. Since when was there some rule that 99.9 percent of our GNP should be given away to countries that are going to just stab us in the back?
Well, if the weapon does the job, it's not "crappy".
Yep, we lost 4000+ troops in five YEARS of fighting against an enemy that hides behind women and children.
I wonder how many insurgents are licking hot frying pans in hell right now after being schwacked by US troops?
No, Americans didn't start it because there was no Americans when the "Native Americans" began to get wiped out by the SPANISH, DUTCH, BRITISH, FRENCH TO A DEGREE.
See, you're wrong there as well. I didn't kill 2 million people in Iraq for oil, and everything else in quotes, is by extentsion, wrong
What War Crimes? The only War Crime I can possibly think about is maybe Abu Graib, and that's a stretch for a "war crime".
Before it ended six weeks later on February 28, US forces committed grievous war crime violations of the Hague and Geneva Conventions and UN and Nuremberg Charters. They included gratuitous mass killings as well as bombing and destroying essential to life facilities that included:
-- power generating stations;
-- dams;
-- water purification capabilities;
-- sewage treatment and disposal systems;
-- telephone and other communications;
-- hospitals;
-- mosques;
-- residential areas affecting 10-20,000 homes, apartments and other dwellings;
-- irrigation sites;
-- food processing, storage and distribution facilities;
-- hotels and retail establishments;
-- transportation infrastructure;
-- oil wells, pipelines, refineries and storage tanks;
-- chemical plants;
-- civilian shelters like Al Ameriyya that was attacked February 13, 1991 by two laser-guided "smart bombs" killing around 400 civilians including 142 children;
-- factories and other commercial operations;
-- government offices;
-- historical sites; and more in a willful malicious effort to return the country to a pre-industrial age and punish its people horrifically.
Lost was power, clean water, sanitation, fuel, transportation, medical facilities and medications, adequate food, schools, private dwellings and places of employment. Early post-war estimates placed the number of civilians killed at 113,000 (mostly children) according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan. In addition, US CENTCOM commander, General Schwarzkopf and others, estimated 100,000 or more Iraqi military deaths plus thousands more killed gratuitously as they were retreating in disarray.
What then followed was 12 years of the most comprehensive genocidal sanctions ever imposed on a country as an act of vengeance and US-imposed imperial arrogance. They were first adopted in UN Resolution 661 four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. They included a full trade embargo that crippled the country economically but initially allowed in food, medical and other essential humanitarian needs. UN Resolution 670 followed in September, 1990 that imposed an air blockade and measures to enforce it.
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The results were predictable and devastating. Normal life was impossible and became a daily struggle to survive. It became apparent by the mid-1990s many didn't or wouldn't:
-- the UN World Food Program (WFP) reported 2.4 million Iraqi children were severely at nutritional risk in September, 1995;
-- in December, 1995, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said 12% of Baghdad children were "wasted, 28% stunted and 29% under weight;"
-- by year end 1995, FAO reported 567,000 Iraqi children sanction-related deaths;
-- by March, 1996, WHO noted a six-fold mortality rate increase among children under five;
-- in October, 1996 UNICEF reported 4500 monthly Iraqi children deaths from sanction-caused starvation and disease;
-- by 1999, the under five child mortality rate rose three-fold from 1989, malnutrition doubled, and the entire young child population was affected;
-- UN Secretary-General Boutras-Boutras-Ghali noted how health conditions deteriorated dramatically by the mid-1990s, and by 1997 the WHO Director General said Iraq's health care system was systemically broken; in addition, malaria, typhoid, cholera and other life-threatening and communicable diseases were rampant.
These actions were committed willfully and are war crimes under relevant Geneva Conventions and other international law. They also constitute genocide under provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide that "means any (acts like those listed above) committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the national, ethnical, racial or religious group (by) killing (its) members; causing (them) serious bodily or mental harm; (or) deliberately inflicting (on them) conditions (that may destroy them in whole or in part)."
US administrations under GHW Bush, Bill Clinton and GW Bush are criminally liable under "the genocide convention" and other relevant international law. Up to the March, 2003 attack and invasion, more than 1.5 million Iraqis, including over one million children, likely died from the combination of war and economic sanctions. Two UN heads of Iraqi humanitarian relief resigned under them in anger and frustration with Dennis Halliday saying in 1998 he did so because he "had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over one million individuals, children and adults" including 5000 Iraqi children monthly in his judgment.
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I won't watch, why? Because this idiot supports the state TV ran by the Venezula goverment and pushed to shut out any TV that shows that country how little freedom they have when it comes to rights to protest and right to free speech.
Please..... we have one of the best trained armies in the world.
Though most westerners believe the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the events that drove Japan to surrender, the atomic bombs were actually only part of the equation. Many historians such as Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Dan van der Vat argue that the Russian declaration were as important, if not more so, in the Japanese decision to capitulate. During the last months of the war, it had been evident that the Japanese, not knowing the Yalta Conference agreement, were seeking Russian assistance as a neutral power to negotiate surrender terms with the western Allies. With the seemingly neutral Russians suddenly changing face and tearing up the non-aggression pact, Japan suddenly lost their last hope, which affected the Japanese psyche tremendously.
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Originally posted by manson_322
and you have no sources at all .....
USA is responsible for the conditions of Iraq
and , anyways where was the US military hospitals , during UN sanctions when malnutrition , infant mortality and disease was rampant ,thanks to sanctions...
its the same money made by imperial looting and stealing of resources of third world countries....
lol, they shoot and ran , this is the nature of guerilla attacks....
Originally posted by Zepherian
PS: It would be nice if you stopped with the omniquoting instigation posts.
Originally posted by feoil
A two week naval blockade would have starved Japan into submission.
he and his sons were living high off the hog while he gassed the Kurds and let his own people die.
Manson_322, this is a bit off topic, but you do realise your avatar is a Seikh and not a Muslim don't you?
I understand guerilla tactics, probably just a bit better than you ever will. Shooting and running are part of them.
Hiding behind women and children, or hiding in a Mosque aren't part of the deal.
My fav is the "destruction of an army in retreat". Sorry, Gus, that's part of war.
Originally posted by manson_322
so jerico , you mean that clean water, sanitation, fuel, transportation, medical facilities and medications, food warehouses, schools, private dwellings and places of employment are good targets for bombing , indeed you prove that USA is responsible for war crimes against humanity
Originally posted by manson_322also starting wars on false pretenses (like iraqi WMD ) is a war crime
Originally posted by manson_322yes, it is of a Sikh , not a Muslim and its the photo of the Prime Minister Of India , the very honourable Manmohan Singh ,whos a highly reputed economist , unlike the drunkard and fool of a leader that American President Bush is ........
Originally posted by manson_322 I suggest you read the history of the Maratha King Shivaji Maharaj , who used guerilla tactics to fight and defeat the much superior and well trained mughal armies of the mughal emperor Aurangzeb .
Originally posted by feoil
The U.S. military was just dying to try out it's new toy and let's face it the Japs aren't as white as the Gerries. Modern values tend to regard racism as evil and going into the U.S's history of racism is pointless here.
Once again, you fail to follow simple instructions and read a post. The Iraqis in both the First Gulf War and in the beginning of OIF were positioning AAA pieces, SAM sites, etc, next to mosques, schools, hospitals, civilian neighborhoods, etc. They were doing this so that when the US hit them, there would be a good chance the hospital or whatever that was next to the site would be destroyed, too, and then they could go say the US was targetting civilians. I saw the targetting photos showing this.
And the writings of Maratha King Shivaji Maharaj tell guerillas to hide behind women and children, to use them as human shields in combat? To torture, execute and mutilate unarmed prisoners?
to use them as human shields in combat? To torture, execute and mutilate unarmed prisoners?
Care to tell me what Saddam was transporting into Syria when the war started? I'm willing to bet it wasn't his comic book collection.
You forgot "stoner" along with drunkard and fool. Geez, gotta spell out everything to you.....
Originally posted by manson_322
really , you saw targetting photos ???
war crimes are war crimes as per Geneva conventions, and i am still waiting for proof ????
Originally posted by manson_322....US was indeed targeting civilians
Originally posted by manson_322from what i am aware , insurgents use civilian buildings ...
Originally posted by manson_322really is there any proof of that 'operation Sarinder' as Fox news or so israeli BS sources like Debka state...
Originally posted by manson_322finally some good contribution fro m you , also add genocidal maniac and hitlerist fascist monster...
Who knows about "Israeli Sources". I myself so a buttload of traffic heading into Syria with my own eyes.
AAA sites right next to schools and homes.
Another violation of the Geneva Convention that gets a pass from you.
What do you know about Hitler? It appears that you haven't read too many books on history if you think that the US and Bush are the worse things this world has ever seen.
you haven't read too many books on history if you think that the US and Bush are the worse things this world has ever seen.
My fav is the "destruction of an army in retreat". Sorry, Gus, that's part of war.
Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the "Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway. The clear rapid incineration of the human being [pictured above] suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incindiary bombs. These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawl from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who "are out of combat." There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending seige of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force. (Photo Credit: © 1991 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images)
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Originally posted by manson_322
lol, the biggest load of BS i ever read ....
wheres the proof that Saddam sent the his 'WMD'(american fairytales as usual) to Syria.....
really can you show me the intel images you claim to have seen before and after the bombing...
Originally posted by manson_322.....in fact Genghis Khan was worser than Hitler .....
Originally posted by manson_322...no need to tell the american propaganda version of history .... USA is one of worse thingd that world has seen..........
Originally posted by manson_322...Big external quote from some biased website......
so technically , another war crime agAINST HUMANITY PERFormed by USA