How Many Kids
Will The US
Kill In 2008?
By
Dr Gideon Polya
08/01/08
"ICH" -- --
I seem to have been demonstrating against
American racism, imperialism, wars and mass murder all my
adult life from the Vietnam era of the 1960s and 1970s
onwards. Back in the 1960s decent people chanted “Hay, hay LBJ, how many kids will you kill today?” (LBJ being US
President Lyndon Baines Johnson who presided over the
Indochina War - 13 million excess deaths in total - from the
assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) in
1963 to the accession of President Richard Nixon in 1969.
These days
we have been chanting “Bush, Blair, CIA, how many kids did
you kill today?” or the more general “Hay, hay USA, how many
kids did you kill today?” This article by a senior
biological scientist attempts to answer this question
QUANTITATIVELY using the best available data from UNICEF
(see:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ) and the
UN Population Division (see:
http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ).
We can get
an UPPER LIMIT estimate from determining the number of
children who die avoidably on Spaceship Earth with George
Bush in charge of the flight deck. I have published a huge
book recently called “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality
since 1950”. (G.M. Polya, Melbourne; copies in some major
libraries; see:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ and
http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ). Careful research
over several years and involving every country in the world
ultimately obtained the estimate that 16 million people die
avoidably each year (2003 data) of whom 9.6 million are
under-5 year old infants.
We can
accordingly estimate that Bush US is COMPLICIT in about 9.6
million avoidable infant deaths on Spaceship Earth each year
(26,000 daily). However complicity is not the same as
actual, actionable RESPONSIBILITY.
However
while Bush America cannot be held responsible for every
country in the world, under International Law it is
certainly responsible for all countries actually violently
occupied by the US (Occupied Iraq, Occupied Afghanistan,
Occupied Diego Garcia) or by its war criminal surrogates
Ethiopia and Racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel (Occupied
Haiti, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Somalia).
This
culpability is clearly set out in Articles 55 and 56 of the
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War (see:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm ), QUOTE:
Article 55
To the fullest extent of the means available to it the
Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and
medical supplies of the population; it should, in
particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical
stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied
territory are inadequate.
The
Occupying Power may not requisition foodstuffs, articles or
medical supplies available in the occupied territory, except
for use by the occupation forces and administration
personnel, and then only if the requirements of the civilian
population have been taken into account. Subject to the
provisions of other international Conventions, the Occupying
Power shall make arrangements to ensure that fair value is
paid for any requisitioned goods.
The
Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty to verify
the state of the food and medical supplies in occupied
territories, except where temporary restrictions are made
necessary by imperative military requirements.
Article 56
To the
fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying
Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the
cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical
and hospital establishments and services, public health and
hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference
to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and
preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of
contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all
categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties.
If new
hospitals are set up in occupied territory and if the
competent organs of the occupied State are not operating
there, the occupying authorities shall, if necessary, grant
them the recognition provided for in Article 18. In similar
circumstances, the occupying authorities shall also grant
recognition to hospital personnel and transport vehicles
under the provisions of Articles 20 and 21.
In adopting
measures of health and hygiene and in their implementation,
the Occupying Power shall take into consideration the moral
and ethical susceptibilities of the population of the
occupied territory. END QUOTE.
Using data
from UNICEF it can be estimated that 608,000 under-5 year
old infants die ANNUALLY in the US- or US surrogate-occupied
Occupied Territories listed above, 90% avoidably - i.e.
550,000 - and due to Occupier war crimes in violation of the
Geneva Convention.
A quick
inspection of the WHO (World Health Organization) website
(see:
http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ) reveals that total
annual medical expenditure in US dollars permitted by the
war criminal Occupiers is only $19 (Occupied Afghanistan),
$82 (Occupied Haiti), $135 (Occupied Iraq), ? (Occupied
Somalia) and ? (Occupied Palestinian Territory) as compared
to the following hugely greater values for the racist,
war-criminal, mass pedocidal US Alliance Occupier Countries:
$3,123 (Australia), $3,173 (Canada), $3,040 (France), $3,171
(Germany), $2,560 (the UK) and $6.096 (the US).
Accordingly
Bush, Dr Rice (aka Dr Death), Bush America and indeed ALL
Bush-supporting Americans are responsible for the 550,000
avoidable under-5 infant deaths EACH YEAR in the above
Occupied countries. For detailed data and analysis see "US
Occupation & Terror & Occupation. War crimes & huge infant
deaths":
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11968/42/ , from which
one obtains the following summary data:
Year 2005
under-5 infant deaths” / “year 2005 population” is 370,000 /
29.9 million (Occupied Afghanistan); 122,000 / 28.8 million
(Occupied Iraq); 82,000 / 8.2 million (Occupied Somalia);
31,000 / 8.5 million (Occupied Haiti); and 3,000 / 3.7
million (Occupied Palestinian Territory) – as compared to
1,500 / 20.2 million (Occupi-er Australia) and 800 / 6.4
million (Occupi-er Israel).
Year 2005
annual under-5 infant death rate” (i.e. as a percentage:
deaths for every 100 under-5 year old infants in 2005 in a
particular country) was 6.7% (Occupied Afghanistan); 2.8%
(Occupied Iraq); 5.5% (Occupied Somalia); 2.7% (Occupied
Haiti); and 0.47% (Occupied Palestinian Territory) – as
compared to 0.12% (Occupi-er Australia) and 0.12% (Occupi-er
Israel).
Total excess
deaths for impoverished developing countries is about 1.4
times the total under-5 infant deaths (see "Layperson's
Guide to Counting Iraq deaths":
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ (for detailed
analysis see my book "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality
since 1950" (copies in major libraries):
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ and
http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ). Accordingly
annual excess deaths in the above Occupied Countries =
608,000 x 1.4 = 850,000.
THE ANSWERS
to the questions posed above are that Bush America will be
responsible for (a) 850,000 excess deaths in US- or US
surrogate-occupied Territories in 2008 (of whom well over
50% will be kids) and (b) 550,000 avoidable under-5 infant
deaths in these Occupied Territories in 2008 or 550,000/365
= 1,500 avoidable under-5 year old infant deaths DAILY.
Terrorism
whether state terrorism or non-state terrorism is evil and
repugnant.
Muslim-origin non-state terrorists have murdered 7,000
Western civilians in the last 40 (FORTY) years (including
Israelis and assuming no US or Israeli complicity in 9/11 -
ignoring the fact that in November 2007 former President and
intelligence-intimate Francesco Cossiga of Italy announced
unequivocally that 9/11 was due to the US CIA and Israeli
Mossad) (see:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18569/26/ ).
However the
21st century Bush Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been
associated (SO FAR) with post-invasion excess deaths of
1.5-2 million and 3-6 million, respectively; post-invasion
under-5 infant deaths of 0.6 million and 2.2 million,
respectively; and refugees totalling 4.5 million and 4
million, respectively (see:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/19121/42/ and
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya071007.htm ).
From these
UN agency- and medical literature-derived figures Bush US is
clearly the world's #1 terrorist state and the current
world's #1 for mass murder and mass pedocide (mass murder of
children).
What sort of
human beings can be complicit in such mass murder? What sort
of Americans are complicit in this mass murder? What sort of
American WOMEN are complicit in this horrendous mass murder
of BORN INFANTS? Well, George W. Bush's Secretary of State
Dr Condoleezza Rice (aka Wicked Witch of the West, Dr
Death), Bill Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
and Hilary Clinton for starters.
Of course
ugly, racist Americans such as the Racist Religious Right
Republican (R4) Bush-ites might argue that Muslim, Arab,
Asian, South Asian, African, or non-European infants "don't
count" (that, of course, having been continuous, sustained
American policy since the time of the racist, genocidal,
God-fearing first European settlers of America 500 years
ago) but what about the 20,000 AMERICAN INFANTS who die
avoidably EACH YEAR because of Bush policies (see "How Bush
killed 100,000 American infants":
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/7102/26/ ).
Bush America
is undoubtedly well ahead of the rest as the world's #1
climate criminal state, and the #1 for terrorism, and mass
pedocide. US state terrorism (USST), US climate criminality,
and US nuclear terrorism are the #1 threats facing the world
today.
Those who
KNOWINGLY deny, ignore, excuse, minimize, obfuscate,
support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in the mass
murder of CHILDREN have crossed the line separating decent
humanity from proto-Nazi barbarism, from the unthinkable but
real, barbaric actuality of Bush America.
Small wonder
therefore that outstanding Jewish American investor,
philanthropist, author, activist, Holocaust hero and
Holocaust survivor George Soros has demanded the "de-Nazification"
of Bush America (see: "George Soros: Bush America needs de-Nazification":
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12714/26/ ).
What can
decent people do to counter this horrendous Bush American
barbarism in 2008? Peace is the only way but silence kills
and silence is complicity. Decent folk must (a) inform
others and (b) act ethically by applying Sanctions and
Boycotts in relation to all their avoidable dealings with
individuals, corporations and countries complicit in this
continuing mass pedocide, this continuing, remorseless Bush-ite
mass murder of innocent children.
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://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ ).
