I have saved this one for "special treatment." It appeared in the September 24 Sunday Herald, titled "Allies Poisoning Of Iraqi's Water Supplies In Gulf War Kills Thousands" and is reminiscent of Theodore Nathan Kaufman's plan for genocide of the German nation, proposed and expounded in his 1941 book, "Germany Must Perish!" where wholesale sterilization of all reproductive Germans was planned - and lauded in papers such as the New York Times.
Or Morgenthau"s plan. Remember - the plan to starve out the postwar Germans by creating "pastures" out of bombed-out industrial centers in that defeated country?
Dr. Michael Bar Zohar, Secretary to David Ben Gurian, reported another plan of killing 6-10 million Germans after 1945 in his book, titled The Avengers. Zionist agents obtained the poison to be put into water supplies from Dr. Chaim Weizman, but the British intercepted these agents of death. They threw the poison overboard into the Mediterranean Sea.
One poisonous plan did succeed, where Zionist agents smeared arsenic on freshly baked bread. Hundreds of German POWs died. Thousands were hospitalized. The assassins became members of Israel's Parliament, the Knesset. They bragged about the poisoning action in a Toronto synagogue, as reported in the Toronto Star in the fall of 1967.
But now we aren't talking 1946 - when hate for the Germans was as hot as a second in hell. This is almost half a century later - at a time when the Allies spend millions to hunt down so-called "war criminals" at the behest of special interests. The question one must ask today is this: Was there substance to that "poisoning of the wells" story of the Middle Ages that would and would not die?
Imagine:
Sunday Herald:
The US-led allied forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply during the Gulf War - flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths.
Since the {Gulf} war ended in 1991 the allied nations have made sure than any attempts to make contaminated water safe have been thwarted.
Zundelsite:
That's right. The "allied nations"!
Sunday Herald:
A respected American professor now intends to convene expert hearings in a bid to pursue criminal indictments under international law against those responsible.
Professor Thomas J Nagy, Professor of Expert Systems at George Washington University with a doctoral fellowship in public health, told the Sunday Herald: "Those who saw nothing wrong in producing [this plan], those who ordered its production and those who knew about it and have remained silent for 10 years would seem to be in violation of Federal Statute and perhaps have even conspired to commit genocide."
Zundelsite:
The authors of this plan should not be hard to find. Just who harbored such deadly hate against Iraqi civilians? Some latter day Kaufman or Morgenthau? In the era of the Internet it won't be long until the culprit(s) will be found.
Sunday Herald:
Professor Nagy obtained a minutely detailed seven-page document prepared by the US Defence Intelligence Agency, issued the day after the war started, entitled Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities and circulated to all major allied Commands.
It states that Iraq had gone to considerable trouble to provide a supply of pure water to its population. It had to depend on importing specialised equipment and purification chemicals, since water is "heavily mineralised and frequently brackish".
Zundelsite:
Importing such stuff always leaves the importing countries dependent. That's why Hitler's first Four Year Plan called for "Autarkie" - in other words, self-reliance and self-sufficiency, because Hitler knew his enemies all too well.
Sunday Herald:
The report stated: "Failing to secure supplies will result in a shortage of pure drinking water for much of the population. This could lead to increased incidents, if not epidemics, of disease and certain pure-water dependent industries becoming incapacitated".
The report concludes: "Full degradation of the water treatment system probably will take at least another six months."
Zundelsite:
Cold-hearted and murderous - the Geneva Convention and Nuremberg precedents be damned! Murder, mass murder was on the minds of the author(s) - mass murder of civilians! The murder of unsuspecting women and children!
Sunday Herald:
During allied bombing campaigns on Iraq the country's eight multi-purpose dams had been repeatedly hit, simultaneously wrecking flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power. Four of seven major pumping stations were destroyed, as were 31 municipal water and sewerage facilities - 20 in Baghdad, resulting in sewage pouring into the Tigris. Water purification plants were incapacitated throughout Iraq.
Article 54 of the Geneva Convention states: "It is prohibited to attack, destroy or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population" and includes foodstuffs, livestock and "drinking water supplies and irrigation works".
Zundelsite:
Could anything be clearer than Article 54? Hardly! Yet the air strikes were ordered and obedient soldiers carried out these orders. In Nuremberg "following orders" was no defence allowed to the German military men. They were found guilty and were executed.
Sunday Herald:
The results of the allied bombing campaign were obvious when Dr David Levenson visited Iraq immediately after the Gulf War, on behalf of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
He said: "For many weeks people in Baghdad - without television, radio, or newspapers to warn them - brought their drinking water from the Tigris, in buckets.
"Dehydrated from nausea and diarrhoea, craving liquids, they drank more of the water that made them sick in the first place."
Zundelsite:
Diabolical is the only word that comes to mind.
Sunday Herald:
Water-borne diseases in Iraq today are both endemic and epidemic. They include typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, cholera and polio (which had previously been eradicated), along with a litany of others.
A child with dysentery in 1990 had a one in 600 chance of dying - in 1999 it was one in 50.
Zundelsite:
And those responsible enjoy their victory, still basking in the image of being "heroes", mouthing platitudes on the
20,000-a-speech lecture circuit while the martini glasses click and the steaks are barbecued.
Sunday Herald:
The then US Navy Secretary John Lehman estimated that 200,000 Iraqis died in the Gulf War. Dr Levenson estimates many thousands died from polluted water.
Chlorine and essential equipment parts needed to repair and clear the water system ***have been banned from entering the country under the UN "hold "system***. (Emphasis added)
Zundelsite:
Would John Lehman and Norman Schwarzkopf not be partly responsible for this? Or George Bush? It will be interesting to see what will be done about this.
Sunday Herald:
Ohio Democrat Representative Tony Hall has written to American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, saying he shares concerns expressed by Unicef about the "profound effects the deterioration of Iraq's water supply and sanitation systems on children's health". Diarrhoeal diseases, he says, are of "epidemic proportions" and are "the prime killer of children under five".
"Holds on contracts for water and sanitation are a prime reason for the increase in sickness and death." Of 18 contracts, wrote Hall, ***all but one on hold were placed by the government in the US***. (Emphasis added)
Zundelsite:
Unconscionable behavior! Cold-hearted and ruthless!
Sunday Herald:
Contracts were for purification chemicals, chlorinators, chemical dosing pumps, water tankers and other water industry related items.
"If water remains undrinkable, diseases will continue and mortality rates will rise," said the Iraqi trade minister Muhammed Mahdi Salah. The country's health ministry said that more than 10,000 people died in July of embargo-related causes - 7457 were children, with diarrhoeal diseases one of the prime conditions.
In July 1989, the figure was 378. ***Unicef does not dispute the figures***. (Emphasis added)
Zundelsite:
This is genocide by another name and a more diabolical method - and the world sits idly by while tens of thousands die a miserable, painful death.
Sunday Herald:
The problem will not be helped by plans for the giant Ilisu Dam project (to which the British government is to give £200 million in export credit guarantees), which will give Turkey entire control of the water flow to Iraq and Syria.
Constructors Balfour Beatty write in their environmental impact report, that for the three years of construction, water flow to Iraq will be reduced by 40%. Iraq has also suffered a three year drought, with the Tigris the lowest in living memory.
Zundelsite:
If there is a God in Heaven, crimes like these will rebound on those who perpetrated them! Maybe the Gulf War Syndrome illness, which has reportedly affected tens of thousands of Allied soldiers who were involved in that war, is just the beginning of divine retribution?
Folklore has coined the saying about God's mills grinding slowly but exceedingly fine...
This story should sicken any decent human being!
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Thought for the Day
"Human change is occurring before our eyes: it drives us onward like drift caught in the current of a great river."
(Francis Galton)
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