The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:
1) the mental element, meaning the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”, and
2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called “genocide.”
Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.
According to Physicians for Social Responsibility anywhere between 1.3 million to 2 million Iraqis were killed during and since the US invasion. This estimate might seem incredibly large on its own, but when one adds this to the death toll from Afghanistan, as well as those who had died from sanctions that had been imposed on ordinary Iraqi citizens (sanctions which had overwhelmingly targeted children; half of those 1.7 million killed from the sanctions were kids) … the total death toll could be as high as 4 million; The holocaust had killed about 6 million Jews throughout Europe; 14 million Chinese had been killed by the Japanese during WW2 and before then.
The question arises then, did the US commit genocide? The Holocaust was certainly considered a genocide, and the US has managed two thirds the number; though less known, the Rape of Nanjing on its own is a widely-cited example of genocide, though it is but a small part of the larger arena and had cost “only” 50,000- 300,000 deaths- the US clearly has the numerical advantage here.
But the convention on genocide requires that there was an “intent to destroy” Muslims, or Iraqis as a whole. Despite the amount vile rhetoric being spouted by the likes of FOX “News” and the like there’s little indication that Bush or Obama or any of the leading politicians had expressed the intent of destroying the population in the country… right?? Of course, most genocidal maniacs tend to keep their cards close to their chest.
Genocide Watch had this to say in response to that point: “Intent can be proven directly from statements or orders. But more often, it must be inferred from a systematic pattern of coordinated acts.”
Before we even have to infer anything… let’s read a statement made by Bush himself, as observed even by the Wall Street Journal:
“President Bush vowed … to ‘rid the world of evil-doers,’ then cautioned: ‘This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.’
Crusade? In strict usage, the word describes the Christian military expeditions a millennium ago to capture the Holy Land from Muslims. But in much of the Islamic world, where history and religion suffuse daily life in ways unfathomable to most Americans, it is shorthand for something else: a cultural and economic Western invasion that, Muslims fear, could subjugate them and desecrate Islam.”
Crusade… a war against Islam… and when used against a people MUCH weaker than yourself, one which did not wage war against you to begin with (nukes in Iraq my hairy a**)… I’d count that as an intent to destroy, wouldn’t you agree? When infrastructure key to sustaining life in the country was targeted and destroyed, and sanctions started murdering children… that counted as an intent to destroy, am I wrong?
B-but the US also tried to make the country democratic right? It invested billions in rebuilding it r-right?? Wrong. Much of the money was used for bribery and for other corrupt purposes. Most of the 60 billion dollars was “wasted” according to the special auditor’s report to Congress. THAT’S how they explain away your disappeared tax money; “wasted“.
Add to that proven cases of torture being conducted by the CIA and even allegations of sexual assault that is being kept “classified” so that evil men are protected… as well as the WILLFUL arming of factions that would eventually become ISIS (and “accidental” supply of weapons, hundreds of humvees and TANKS after it was formed) so that THEY can continue their own genocide in Syria… as well as the fact that not one. not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not even seven but EIGHT weddings have been “crashed” by the US (if you’re wondering why I keep repeating some of these things, not everyone has heard of them. The claims are so fantastic that even I don’t believe them, so they also get sourced over and over again)… Calls for genocide can still be heard in the far-right segments of the US… originally egged on by all that “crusader” propaganda spouted by Bush.
Is the US responsible for genocide? Hahaha… What do you think?
Sources: Mint Press News, Salon, CBS News
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lol please. crusade has another meaning, defined by the dictionary as “lead or take part in an energetic and organized campaign concerning a social, political, or religious issue.” This is a usage common to the US, and its other meaning is not generally assumed. Just because Middle Easterners interpret the saying in its “war against muslims” way doesn’t mean that’s what was meant.
There was clearly no intent to destroy all Arabs, both because the actions taken were entirely inconsistent with that goal (much of Iraq, shockingly, is still alive), and, most importantly, THERE WAS NO BENEFIT TO BE GAINED, IDIOTS.
Why would the US try to kill everyone in the region? what could possibly be gained? So much would be lost for even attempting such an act that they would need a pretty damn good reason. Saying that Bush really intended to wipe Iraq clean of humans is fucking idiotic, and there is no evidence for such intentions.
For starters, and with all due respect, the article is highly suspect due to the 6 million lie and the wikipedia link supporting it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHvQJqmYgY
But for more fun check out “Spielberg’s Hoax – The Last Days of The Big Lie” (towards the end of that are some lovely interviews of Holocaust® survivors who describe conditions that are more favorable than that of most American prisons.) or “Hellstorm – Exposing The Real Genocide of Nazi Germany”, plenty of others.
Other than that I must agree the “intent to destroy, in whole OR IN PART, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” is going on all over the world, including most of Europe, even creeping into the U.S., though most can only clearly see the cultural genocide which is taking place on a massive scale here. “That hurts my feelings, don’t speak reality, or express and opinion contrary to my conditioning you ‘hate-monger'” Or the always amusing; “That flag murdered people, take it down you racist.”… Nope no PC-Police helping facilitate cultural genocide around here, nothing to see move along.
That being said plenty of us opposed it and still do. Even people such as myself who question the official Holocaust® narrative, much like the; JFK, 9/11, and virtually every other establishment narrative: who actually tried to argue far and wide against the insane evil genocidal hubris and violence that’s devastated from Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Libya, to Syria, to Ukraine, to now even the EU & U.S…..
Also agree it wasn’t a “Crusade®” though it was marketed to Authoritarian follower sheeple “Christians” who don’t even read, much less care to understand the intricacies of their Holy Books. What it really was was a power-grab, and a resource grab, along with a demoralization campaign waged against even our own Proletariat… Notice the high drug abuse rates, Afghan heroin everywhere, notice the economy gone, and the ever widening chasms between all manner of identity groups, and divided we’re conquered as the globalists slowly whittle down the global population to what they deem as “sustainable”…..
Conn your stories are undeniably ill-published. Your stories are so extremely funny fantasies…they should be published in the ‘comic’ portion of local newspapers.