Gideon Polya: child deaths due to USA actions and occupations

2008-01-06

Richard Moore

Original source URL:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050108.htm

How Many Kids Will Bush America
Kill In 2008?
By Dr Gideon Polya
05 January, 2008
Countercurrents.org

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 ³Hay, hay LBJ, how many kids 
will you kill today?² (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 ³Bush, Blair, CIA, how many kids did you kill 
today?² or the more general ³Hay, hay USA, how many kids did you kill today?² 
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 ³Body Count. Global avoidable 
mortality since 1950². (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 deaths² / ³year 2005 population² 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 rate² (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 ³Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950² (G.M. 
Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ ).
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