War Crimes Against Iraqi Children

War Crimes Against Iraqi Children

 The United States Takes the Matter of Three-headed Babies Very Seriously

 

By William Blum

The BBC reported that doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the United States during its fierce onslaughts of 2004 and subsequently, which left much of the city in ruins. "It was like an earthquake," a local engineer who was running for a national assembly seat told the Washington Post in 2005. "After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah." Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe.
The BBC correspondent also saw children in the city who were suffering from paralysis or brain damage, and a photograph of one baby who was born with three heads. He added that he heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children. One doctor in the city had compared data about birth defects from before 2003 — when she saw about one case every two months — with the situation now, when she saw cases every day. "I've seen footage of babies born with an eye in the middle of the forehead, the nose on the forehead," she said.
A spokesman for the US military, Michael Kilpatrick, said it always took public health concerns "very seriously", but that "No studies to date have indicated environmental issues resulting in specific health issues." ¹
One could fill many large volumes with the details of the environmental and human horrors the United States has brought to Fallujah and other parts of Iraq during seven years of using white phosphorous shells, depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs, neutron bombs, laser weapons, weapons using directed energy, weapons using high-powered microwave technology, and other marvelous inventions in the Pentagon's science-fiction arsenal ... the list of abominations and grotesque ways of dying is long, the wanton cruelty of American policy shocking. In November 2004, the US military targeted a Fallujah hospital "because the American military believed that it was the source of rumors about heavy casualties." ² That's on a par with the classic line from the equally glorious American war in Vietnam: "We had to destroy the city to save it."
How can the world deal with such inhumane behavior? (And the above of course scarcely scratches the surface of the US international record.) For this the International Criminal Court (ICC) was founded in Rome in 1998 (entering into force July 1, 2002) under the aegis of the United Nations. The Court was established in The Hague, Netherlands to investigate and indict individuals, not states, for "The crime of genocide; Crimes against humanity; War crimes; or The crime of aggression." (Article 5 of the Rome Statute) From the very beginning, the United States was opposed to joining the ICC, and has never ratified it, because of the alleged danger of the Court using its powers to "frivolously" indict Americans.
So concerned about indictments were the American powers-that-be that the US went around the world using threats and bribes against countries to induce them to sign agreements pledging not to transfer to the Court US nationals accused of committing war crimes abroad. Just over 100 governments so far have succumbed to the pressure and signed an agreement. In 2002, Congress, under the Bush administration, passed the "American Service Members Protection Act", which called for "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by ... the International Criminal Court." In the Netherlands it's widely and derisively known as the "Invasion of The Hague Act". ³ The law is still on the books.
Though American officials have often spoken of "frivolous" indictments — politically motivated prosecutions against US soldiers, civilian military contractors, and former officials — it's safe to say that what really worries them are "serious" indictments based on actual events. But they needn't worry. The mystique of "America the Virtuous" is apparently alive and well at the International Criminal Court, as it is, still, in most international organizations; indeed, amongst most people of the world. The ICC, in its first few years, under Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine, dismissed many hundreds of petitions accusing the United States of war crimes, including 240 concerning the war in Iraq. The cases were turned down for lack of evidence, lack of jurisdiction, or because of the United States' ability to conduct its own investigations and trials. The fact that the US never actually used this ability was apparently not particularly significant to the Court. "Lack of jurisdiction" refers to the fact that the United States has not ratified the accord. On the face of it, this does seem rather odd. Can nations commit war crimes with impunity as long as they don't become part of a treaty banning war crimes? Hmmm. The possibilities are endless. A congressional study released in August, 2006 concluded that the ICC's chief prosecutor demonstrated "a reluctance to launch an investigation against the United States" based on allegations regarding its conduct in Iraq. ⁴ Sic transit gloria International Criminal Court.
As to the crime of aggression, the Court's statute specifies that the Court "shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted ... defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime." In short, the crime of aggression is exempted from the Court's jurisdiction until "aggression" is defined. Writer Diana Johnstone has observed: "This is a specious argument since aggression has been quite clearly defined by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3314 in 1974, which declared that: 'Aggression is the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State', and listed seven specific examples," including:
The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the territory of another State, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another State or part thereof; and
Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State.
The UN resolution also stated that: "No consideration of whatever nature, whether political, economic, military or otherwise, may serve as a justification for aggression."

 

The real reason that aggression remains outside the jurisdiction of the ICC is that the United States, which played a strong role in elaborating the Statute before refusing to ratify it, was adamantly opposed to its inclusion. It is not hard to see why. It may be noted that instances of "aggression", which are clearly factual, are much easier to identify than instances of "genocide", whose definition relies on assumptions of intention. ⁵
There will be a conference of the ICC in May, in Kampala, Uganda, in which the question of specifically defining "aggression" will be discussed. The United States is concerned about this discussion. Here is Stephen J. Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, speaking to the ICC member nations (111 have ratified thus far) in The Hague last November 19:
I would be remiss not to share with you my country's concerns about an issue pending before this body to which we attach particular importance: the definition of the crime of aggression, which is to be addressed at the Review Conference in Kampala next year. The United States has well-known views on the crime of aggression, which reflect the specific role and responsibilities entrusted to the Security Council by the UN Charter in responding to aggression or its threat, as well as concerns about the way the draft definition itself has been framed. Our view has been and remains that, should the Rome Statute be amended to include a defined crime of aggression, jurisdiction should follow a Security Council determination that aggression has occurred.
Do you all understand what Mr. Rapp is saying? That the United Nations Security Council should be the body that determines whether aggression has occurred. The same body in which the United States has the power of veto. To prevent the adoption of a definition of aggression that might stigmatize American foreign policy is likely the key reason the US will be attending the upcoming conference.
Nonetheless, the fact that the United States will be attending the conference may well be pointed out by some as another example of how the Obama administration foreign policy is an improvement over that of the Bush administration. But as with almost all such examples, it's a propaganda illusion. Like the cover of Newsweek magazine of March 8, written in very large type: "Victory at last: The emergence of a democratic Iraq". Even before the current Iraqi electoral farce — with winning candidates arrested or fleeing ⁶— this headline should have made one think of the interminable jokes Americans made during the Cold War about Pravda and Izvestia.

Notes

1. BBC, March 4, 2010; Washington Post, December 3, 2005 ^↩
2. New York Times, November 8, 2004 ^↩
3. Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 2009 ^↩
4. Washington Post, November 7, 2006 ^↩
5. Diana Johnstone, Counterpunch, January 27/28, 2007 ^↩
6. Washington Post, April 2, 2010 ^↩

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What part did vaccines play in the eradication of Polio?

A few facts: Before the first Salk vaccine trials, polio incidence had already declined greatly. Decline was even greater by the time the Salk and Sabine vaccines came into widespread use. The intensive use in 1958 was followed by more than a doubling of incidence. At no time after the introduction of the two vaccines against polio was decline greater than before vaccine introduction.

Graph showing Death from Polio: Australia	The Polio Death Rate was Decreasing on its Own Before the Vaccine was Introduced
Original available at: www.vaccinationdebate.com/web1.html	[United States and England] According to VACCINES Are They Really Safe & Effective? by Neil Z. Miller, "From 1923 to 1953,before the Salk killed-virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in the United States and England had already declined on its own by 47 percent and 55 percent, respectively. Source International Mortality Statistics (1981) by Michael Alderson." See page 16.
For a great graph: Images Of Poliomyelitis Polio in the United States Graphic Timeline: U.S. 1870-1998     http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm See also: http://www.geocities.com/harpub/index.html For a table of USA polio incidence: http://www.post-polio.org/ipn/ir-usa.html For a graph of Reported Polio Cases and OPV33 Coverage in the Western Pacific Region, 1974 -2004 see this URL http://www.wpro.who.int/sites/epi/data/DAT_Polio_OPV3.htm Note the generally poor fit between vaccination rates and polio incidence rates. Click on the graph to see enlarged version. For a PowerPoint slide, but with less than complete coverage of the vaccine numbers click here:

1. Before the modern era, polio was a mild disease seldom resulting in paralysis. 2. The largest epidemic occurred about 1950 and had significantly declined by 1955 when vaccine was first introduced. 3. Disease can not be 'conquered' without addressing the disease cause. 4. Disease is not caused by a lack of "cow-pus", rotting material or carcinogenic poisons in the bloodstream. 5. Polio causes included: * pre-polio vaccines * nutritional imbalances * environmental poisons, most notably pesticides 6. Creation of and introduction of the Salk vaccine was motivated by fear that, without the vaccine, contributions to 'polio research' charities would drop. Test results on the Salk vaccine were biased by throwing out polio cases 'after the first vaccination'. Test results were also biased by including only data from the '11 most accurate states' while ignoring the data from the other 33 states included in the test. I wonder what the '33 least accurate state' data would have shown? 7. Introduction of the Salk vaccine was beset first with known deaths related to the vaccine and then by a rise in polio cases. 8. Truth of the vaccine's true detriment was withheld from the public. Several states had rises in polio rate following vaccine introduction. 9. In the 3 years following the introduction of the vaccine: * The definition of epidemic was changed from 20 cases to 35 cases [per 100,000]! * The definition of polio was changed from paralysis occurring for 24 hours or more to paralysis occurring for 2 months! * The remaining polio cases were then diagnosed as meningitis! Thus the factor(s) which caused the 1950 and onward decline was in no way contributed to by vaccine. The vaccine was a cause of disease, not a preventive of disease! "Jonas Salk, inventor of the IPV, testified before a Senate subcommittee that nearly all polio outbreaks since 1961 were caused by the oral polio vaccine." "Official data shows that large scale vaccination has failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection" - Dr. Sabin, developer of Polio vaccine. "Many here voice a silent view that the Salk and Sabin Polio Vaccines, being made from monkey kidney tissue, has been directly responsible for the major increase in leukaemia in this country." - Dr F. Klenner, M.D. "Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease." -Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. "Poliomyelitis trends in Pondicherry, south India, 1989-91" (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health [London], vol. 51, no. 4, August 1997, pages 443-48): About 54 percent of children lamed as a result of poliomyelitis had received three doses of oral polio vaccine before the onset of paralysis. Above quotes and many others to be found at: Quotes References:

http://www.newsmax.com/ - NewsMax.com Wires Monday, Aug. 7, 2006 India Officials: Coke, Pepsi Contain Harmful Levels of Pesticides The group said that Coke samples had 25 times the amount of pesticides as three years ago, while Pepsi products contained 30 times more. Coca-Cola syrup is shipped from the U.S. to bottling plants around the world, and mixed with local water. [Thus the question, is it India's water or the imported syrup, or both, that are polluted with pesticides. In any case, pesticide poisoning is a primary cause of polio.] Download Part one of the New Polio Articles as a PDF (Acrobat File) 855K Special report: Polio: the virus and the vaccine by Janine Roberts published in The Ecologist, May 2004. Part 1 "The weight of evidence also strongly suggests that the search for this virus, and for a vaccine, was and is based on a flawed theory. This has tragically distracted the medical establishment from the science that might have cured a large number of children - and which could still do so." Download Part 2 of the New Polio articles as a PDF file 156K Part 2, In 1954, a scientist discovered that many hamsters injected with polio vaccine growth medium 'grew large cancer tumours.'

" 'If you continue to allow these contaminated [polio] vaccines to go out, I guarantee you that over the next 20 years you will have epidemics of cancer unlike the world has ever seen'. Bernice Eddy's testimony to the U.S. Congress in 1972."

http://www.vaccines.plus.com THE WEB INQUIRER - An Investigative Journal With information on Viruses, toxins and good health. Polio - the wrong virus, the wrong diagnosis, the wrong vaccine and the wrong cure While on their website, be sure to click on STATISTICS to bring up their graph showing that Polio, renamed AFP now, is actually increasing in the SE/E Asia region. (http://www.vaccines.plus.com/AFP-graph-1.html )

To understand why disease problems go far beyond virus and why health must take into account how lifestyle choices determine susceptibility, see WHY VACCINES ARE INEFFECTIVE http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web4.html http://vaccinetruth.org/page_13.htm A mystery with enormous implications has stumped some of the smartest minds in cancer research. How, might a cancer-causing monkey virus, wind up in human tumors? The mystery began in 1988 with Dr. Michael Carbone. He found the SV40 virus in 60% of the human lung tumors he was studying, (SV40 stands for Simian Virus the 40th virus found). Eventually, sixty different labs confirmed the results. Neil_Z_Miller_Peer-Reviewed_Study.pdf Neil Z. Miller, author of Vaccines, Are they really Safe and Effective? has compiled a 13 page history: The polio vaccine: a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy, and long-term health-related consequences Two 200Kbyte JPEG files of: The Cutter Incident, 50 Years Later by Paul A. Offit "The agency's scientists found that two production pools made by Cutter Laboratories (accounting for 120,000 doses) contained live polio-virus. Among the children who had received vaccine from these pools, abortive polio (characterized by headache, stiff neck, fever, and muscle weakness) developed in 40,000; 51 were permanently paralyzed; and 5 died. Cutter's vaccine also started a polio epidemic: 113 people in the children's families or communities were paralyzed, and 5 died. It was one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in U.S. history." F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 0 The Virus and the Vaccine http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm A simian virus known as SV40 has been associated with a number of rare human cancers. This same virus contaminated the polio vaccine administered to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal health officials see little reason for concern. A growing cadre of medical researchers disagree Tetanus and Polio Article by Viera Schiebner Polio has been painted as some natural scourge of humanity. Yet, epidemics and outbreaks of polio in Europe go back to only less than 100 years. The 1949-50 and later outbreaks of polio were demonstrably caused by intensified diphtheria and whooping cough vaccination, tonsillectomies, other injections (painkillers) and a variety of traumas. They invented a name for it: provocation poliomyelitis. Even though this has not been discussed in literature, the earliest outbreaks were no doubt triggered by intensified smallpox vaccination. The evidence for this connection comes from Egyptian excavations: some mummies had withered limbs; but of course, variolation (a crude form of smallpox inoculation) has been practiced thousands of years ago, and most particularly, in Egypt. Editorial for the Vaccine Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) Newsletter (June-Oct. 2001) That the polio virus is the sole cause of polio is accepted by most people as gospel, and that the Salk and Sabin vaccines eradicated polio in the western world is etched into our collective consciousness as the major medical miracle of our time. But the history of polio and its vaccines is shrouded in a murky mist of politico/scientific manipulation, altered statistics, redefinition and reclassification of the disease, increased cases of vaccine induced paralytic polio, and monkey viruses transmitted by contaminated vaccines to millions of people worldwide. Polio Vac & Accute Flaccid Paralysis http://www.chronicillnet.org/articles/paralyticpolio.html With So Little Poliovirus Detected Around the World, What Is Causing Today's Outbreaks of Acute Flaccid Paralysis? By Neenyah Ostrom Polio Vaccine Linked to Lymphoma "The small DNA-containing polio viruses (simian virus 40 [SV40], JC virus, and BK virus) are known to infect human beings, to have cancer causing potential, and to be associated with some human cancers." "However, now a major journal, Lancet, has published clear evidence that contaminated polio vaccine is responsible for up to half of the 55,000 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases per year. SV40 Polio Vaccine - Deadly Cure? [More on contamination] "that almost 100 million Americans were exposed (to SV-40) through a government sponsored program, but for over 30 years, there has been virtually no government effort to see if anyone's been harmed by the exposure." He added, "The government will not fund science that makes it look culpable." SV40, polio vaccine, and cancer: Now beyond coincidence? 9 April 2002, " San Francisco - At the American Association of Cancer Research meeting here today, controversy continued to swirl around accusations that contaminated polio vaccine stocks are to blame for certain cancers, based on the publication a month ago of two high-profile papers linking the simian virus SV40 to human lymphomas." Chronic Fatigue--The New Face of Polio? www.VacciNetWork.org http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/vaccine/polio.html Paralytic Polio Linked To Vaccinations - Compiled by John Lesso, CAFMR - Not only did the polio vaccine have nothing to do with the decline of paralytic polio, evidence shows that vaccinations for this and other diseases - notably diphtheria, triple antigen (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus), and smallpox - were responsible for its increase. Read at www.pnc.au site "In 1907, [during] an epidemic of poliomyelitis... no infant who was fed exclusively on the breast developed poliomyelitis." This and lots of other goodies found at: http://www.geocities.com/harpub/index.html including a wonderful graph of CNS poisons versus polio: Quotes follow: "The experiments of Clark, Frazier, and Amoss show that after intravenous inoculation in monkeys, the virus [filtrate] of poliomyelitis disappears from the blood within 72 hours; and other observations have shown that it is only after enormous intravenous doses of the virus that the monkey develops the disease. Smaller doses intravenously fail to produce any disturbance." "If injected with 250 to 500 cc [1 to 2 cups!] of the virus by a similar route the animal succumbed to the disease." George Draper, Acute Poliomyelitis (1917) 1 to 2 cups injected into a 20 lb Rhesus monkey is equal to 7 to 14 cups injected into a 150 lb man. Salk Vaccine: http://www.geocities.com/harpub/salkvacc.htm Read full article Quotes follow: Full scale vaccination begins April 12, 1955. The target age group is 6-9 years [Not the age of maximum susceptibility](Scheele, A.S., Shannon, J.A., "Health Implications In A Program Of Vaccination Against Poliomyelitis", JAMA, August 6, 1955). The Cutter Laboratory disaster is discovered 13 days later, April 25, 1955. Documented cases caused by the Cutter vaccine were 79. Polio incidence began its sharp plummet in 1952. This is 3 years before the the vaccine was licensed by HEW in 1955. Thus, the Salk polio vaccination did not significantly correlate with declining polio incidence. However, a significant correlation with declining polio incidence is found with reports in 1952 that nursing cow calves were dying with of symptoms and physiology when their mother's were fed fodder that had been treated with DDT. The plummet also correlates with the 1951 government/industry debate over pesticide safety. The plummet also correlates with the phase-out of persistent pesticides production in the early 1950s. ("Persistent" pesticides are those which do not easily biodegrade, such as DDT, BHC, arsenic compounds, and lead compounds.) Dr. Thomas Francis did not mention in his key evaluation of the 1954 Salk field trials that those who contracted polio after their first inoculation and before their second inoculation were placed in the "not-inoculated" list.' At the bottom of their web page is a long list of Vaccine Links. http://www.geocities.com/harpub/scobpois.htm From Archive Of Pediatrics (April, 1952) The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis And Obstructions To Its Investigation Statement prepared for the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Ralph R. Scobey, M.D. Polio in the United States Graphic Timeline: U.S. 1870-1998 http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm With 3 wonderful graphs relating DDT/etc to polio cases. A Critique Of Scientific Literature Pesticides And Polio http://www.geocities.com/harpub/overview.htm Did Polio Trials Trigger Aids Virus? POLIO: Indian State Complains To WHO About Vaccine Quality

hiding polio, wonderful quotes: http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html
Hiding Polio: After vaccination 'polio' became 'meningitis'
Year	Polio	Meningitis	Total
July 1955	273	50	323
July 1961	65	161	226
July 1963	31	151	182
Sep. 1966	5	256	261
The above often quoted figures are credited to the Los Angeles County [USA] Health Index: Morbidity and Mortality, Reportable Diseases
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