Thousand of Iraqi children killed and maimed by military forces
October 18, 2006 (Press Release) --
In light of the recent news of the John Hopkins report claiming over 650,000 Iraqi civilian casualties from the last two U.S. invasions and current occupation, and President Bush's dismissal of same as "not credible"", we publicly call upon the United Nations, Parliament, and U.S. Congress to assign a bi-partisan team of House and Senate investigators as well as the United Nations and Parliament, to launch a war crimes commissions to ascertain the truth. Even the 30,000 Iraqi casualties that Mr. Bush admits is unacceptable. This number is more than ten times the number of civilians killed on 9/11!
The volunteer staff of Veteran Organ Donors International has reviewed credible information from both the Red Crescent and Arab League that indicate at least 8,000 Iraqi children were killed and another 13,000 maimed for life. Further, because of extensive use of radioactive depleted uranium ordinance by the U.S. military, the leukemia rate in Iraqi children has almost doubled over the last ten years. In our opinion, this is criminal, especially when the U.S. military spends billions of dollars on "smart bombs" and "GPS guided missiles" and "laser technology" all of which we are told provide for surgical precision strikes. We were further told by eye witnesses that civilian Iraqi mothers and wives of "suspected insurgents" were kidnapped in early-morning raids by U.S. forces and then held as hostage until their sons or husbands surrendered themselves. Thousands of innocent Iraqi families are being terrorized and traumatized for life. This may be the one of the greatest atrocities of our generation, and it is shameful that the mainstream news media is not following up with independent investigations. Is the media avoiding this issue due to bias, censorship, or fear of retribution from the Bush political machine? If this is not an issue to be addressed by the United Nations, Parliament, and U.S. Congress then what is?
The huge discrepancy between the civilian fatality figures cited by President Bush and the Hopkins! Report is too large to ignore especially after one spends only ten minutes at the well-documented web site www.IraqBodyCount.net. As with the case of those invisible "Weapons of Mass Destruction" we sincerely believe Mr. Bush is misleading us once again. Considering that the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein is alleged to have killed approximately 100,000 civilians over his 27 year reign, and American troops have killed more than triple this number of Iraqi civilians in the last ten years alone (with billions of our tax money no less) it would seem nothing less than fair and just to prosecute those responsible for all the civilian deaths with the same zeal and vigor of the Saddam Hussein trials. With all these civilian deaths, it is not difficult to understand the growing "insurgency: which may just be ordinary
The volunteer staff of Veteran Organ Donors International has reviewed credible information from both the Red Crescent and Arab League that indicate at least 8,000 Iraqi children were killed and another 13,000 maimed for life. Further, because of extensive use of radioactive depleted uranium ordinance by the U.S. military, the leukemia rate in Iraqi children has almost doubled over the last ten years. In our opinion, this is criminal, especially when the U.S. military spends billions of dollars on "smart bombs" and "GPS guided missiles" and "laser technology" all of which we are told provide for surgical precision strikes. We were further told by eye witnesses that civilian Iraqi mothers and wives of "suspected insurgents" were kidnapped in early-morning raids by U.S. forces and then held as hostage until their sons or husbands surrendered themselves. Thousands of innocent Iraqi families are being terrorized and traumatized for life. This may be the one of the greatest atrocities of our generation, and it is shameful that the mainstream news media is not following up with independent investigations. Is the media avoiding this issue due to bias, censorship, or fear of retribution from the Bush political machine? If this is not an issue to be addressed by the United Nations, Parliament, and U.S. Congress then what is?
The huge discrepancy between the civilian fatality figures cited by President Bush and the Hopkins! Report is too large to ignore especially after one spends only ten minutes at the well-documented web site www.IraqBodyCount.net. As with the case of those invisible "Weapons of Mass Destruction" we sincerely believe Mr. Bush is misleading us once again. Considering that the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein is alleged to have killed approximately 100,000 civilians over his 27 year reign, and American troops have killed more than triple this number of Iraqi civilians in the last ten years alone (with billions of our tax money no less) it would seem nothing less than fair and just to prosecute those responsible for all the civilian deaths with the same zeal and vigor of the Saddam Hussein trials. With all these civilian deaths, it is not difficult to understand the growing "insurgency: which may just be ordinary
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