Pilger: Let's learn from Blair's crimes, so we don't repeat them in Syria

Excellent article. Re Blair's friend Paul Kagame and his role in the Tutsi Genocide and Hutu Genocide in Rwanda and the ongoing Hutu Genocide in the Congo see "The Politics of Genocide" by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson.

Re Iraq deaths, according to the 2006 Revision UN Population Division data, medical literature data, and other authoritative sources, the Iraqi Holocaust has been associated with 1.2 million post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths; 1.5 million violent post-invasion deaths; and 0.8 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to gross US Coalition violation of the Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War which demands that an Occupier supplies food and medical requisites to “the fullest extent of the means available to it.” In addition, avoidable deaths under Sanctions (1990-2003) totalled 1.7 million, violent deaths in the Gulf War totalled 0.2 million and under-5 infant deaths under Sanctions totalled 1.2 million. Iraqi refugees (both inside and outside Iraq) total 5-6 million.

The ongoing Iraqi Holocaust (1990-2011) involves 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9 million non-violent excess deaths, 4.6 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.0 million under-5 infant deaths, 1.8 million avoidable under-5 year old infant deaths and 5-6 million refugees – an Iraqi Genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention definition of “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group“ (Google "Iraqi Holocaust" and "Iraqi Genocide" ).

In his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in 2005 (when some estimates had put post-2003 invasion Iraqi deaths at 100,000) Jewish British playwright Harold Pinter stated: "We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice" (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/arts-pinter081205.htm )

4.6 million? More than enough, I would have thought.

And it doesn't stop there. Post-invasion violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation total 5.6 million in Afghanistan, 2.2 million in US-, Ethiopia and Kenya-invaded Somalia and circa 50,000 in Libya (Google "Muslim Holocaust", and "Muslim Genocide"). And now the genocidal, racist Neocon American and Zionist Imperialists (NAZIs) and their UK, NATO and Apartheid Australia allies want the devastation of Libya and Iran.