Iraq War Atrocities
by Roedy Green ©2002-2009 Canadian Mind Products
Atrocities
“Never in human history have such genocide and cruelty been witnessed. Such a genocide was never seen in the time
of the pharaohs nor of Hitler nor of Mussolini”
~ Mehmet Elkatmi head
of Turkish parliament’s human rights commission on Bush’s genocide in the Iraq war. 2004-11-28,
originally reported in the Sunday Times of Australia, since withdrawn.
What does Elkatmi mean? He clearly does not mean Bush has already killed 6 million people as Hitler did. He is referring
to the cruelty. Even Hitler refused to use poison gas. Hitler and Stalin only used a handful of tortures. Bush has
concocted over 70. Bush is a torture and atrocity gourmet. Further, Bush’s systematic extinction of the Iraqi
people apparently has no motive. It is violence for the sake of violence.
- Private Joshua Key reported US soldiers playing soccer with the decapitated heads of Iraqi soldiers on CBC Newsworld. 2007-03-04.
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Pfc. Steven Green,
accused rapist and murderer |
Sgt. Paul Cortez,
accused rapist and murderer |
Six US soldiers have been charged with gang
raping a 14 year old Iraqi girl then murdering
her, and her 5-year old sister and her parents. Accused include Pcf. Steven Green of Midland Texas, Spc. James Barker,
Sgt. Paul Cortez, Pfc. Jesse Spielman, Pfc. Bryan Howard and Sgt. Anthony Yribe. If these men are convicted, it would be
fitting if they were treated for the rest of their lives as dangerous sex offenders and driven out of every town they
try to live.
- The four soldiers — Pfc. Corey R. Clagett, Spc. William B. Hunsaker, Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard and Spc.
Juston R. Graber have been accused of killing
blindfolded Iraqi detainees for sport.
- Col. Michael Steele ordered his soldiers to “kill
all military age males”.
- Lining up unarmed civilians and shooting
them execution style, just as the Nazis did.
- American soldiers used white
phosphorus in the operation Phantom Fury attack on Fallujah. Though white phosphorus is not specifically banned, all
incendiaries were banned by the UN in 1980.
White phosphorus spreads on the skin and catches fire. It cannot be extinguished or washed off with water. See photos
of the people killed with white phosphorous in Falluja. In military slang, white phosphorus is known as
Willy Pete. or Whiskey Pete. Italian TV
broke the story. The
Boston Globe, All Headline News and
Reuters reported the story. Italian TV did a documentary on the American use of white phosphorus on the citizens of
Fallujah. You can play a low-res version of the movie online
.
You can download a higher quality version of the movie with BitTorrent
in either Microsoft
or Apple QuickTime format 
The movie deserves to be shown in IMAX, so please try for the hi-res version.
Last revised/verified: 2005-11-08
- Mark 77 Incendiary bombs
All incendiaries have been banned by the UN since 1980. : source.
The department of defence has admitted to using MK-77 in Iraq. MK-77 is just napalm
in canisters.
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Bush has completely ignored the Geneva conventions in
this war. He has behaved even worse that Hitler in that regard. Read them for yourself the Geneva
Conventions treaty the USA signed at the UN that it is flagrantly violating. America flagrantly targets civilians.
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“You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of
napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We
didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole
hill. Smelled like… victory.”
~ Robert Duvall (born: 1931-01-05 age: 78) , Apocalypse
Now 1979
American soldiers used napalm
in the attack on Fallujah. Napalm has been banned by the UN since 1980. The Iraqi puppet
government made this complaint
against the USA. Giuliana Sgrena,
the Italian journalist Americans shot at with 400 bullets, accused the Americans of using napalm in Fallujah. : source
source
- mustard gas:
even Hitler refused to use this.
- nerve gas:
even Hitler refused to use this. On 2005-03-01, Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli of Iraq’s
Ministry of Health made the revelation at a Baghdad
press conference: U.S. forces used mustard gas, nerve gas and other burning chemical
weapons against Iraqi civilians in their November assault on the city of Falluja.
- Depleted Uranium:
featuring Pulitzer prize winner John Hanchette and Pentagon DU expert Dr. Doug Rokke, a serving officer for 30
years. It is mostly about the experiences with DU in the first Gulf War. America, Britain, Russia and Pakistan all
convert their nuclear power plant wasted into DU weapons and sell them on the international market. A DU round is 10
pounds of solid uranium, contaminated with plutonium, americium, neptunium and uranium-236. It catches fire the instant
it leaves the barrel. On impact, 40-50% spalls (breaks off into tiny bb sized shrapnel). The oxides form a fine
inhalable powder. One third of the Gulf War vets are on permanent disability. [The Gulf War soldiers were in Iraq a tiny
fraction of the time the soldiers are being kept in Iraq.] Rokke says he was ordered to lie about DU, because the
military was determined to continue using it, despite the danger to US troops. Bush sent troops to Iraq with known
defective gas masks. In the Iraq heat, the sweat breaks contact at the side of the face. Since the Iraq war started in 2003,
American forces have fired at least 120 tons of shells packed with depleted
uranium.
- American soldiers used poison
gas in the attack on Fallujah. The US admitted to using banned
white phosphorus bombs “for illumination” in the levelling of Fallujah.
- According to the prestigious medical journal Lancet,
American soldiers killed over 100,000 civilians, most of them children.
- In one month of the war, Associated Press tallied 3,240
civilians deaths in Iraq. The count was fragmentary, and the complete toll is sure to be significantly higher.
- Before the war started, the World Health
Organisation estimated that 100,000 Iraqi civilians could be wounded and another 400,000
hit by disease after the bombing of water and sewage facilities and the disruption of food supplies.
- The UN estimate was 100,000 people would
be injured in the Iraq war.
- As of 2006-06-05 the estimate was at least 251,102
killed and 532,715 seriously wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Iraqi ex-patriates who were in Iraq that I talked to estimated the number of civilian deaths as a result of the sanction
bombings between 1 and 2 million. I find testimony of the victims more credible than that of the perpetrator of a crime.
- “How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the
initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis.”
George W. Bush, 2005-12-14.
- Killing 2/3 of the people in Fallujah.
Not even Hitler was that ruthless.
- American soldiers tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib
and Guantánamo Bay
detention centre. The FBI
corroborated. The story was carried by UPI, The New
York Times (which did dozens of front page stories) and counterbias.com.
Other paper carried it, but have since withdrawn their stories.
- Sgt. Erik Saar has written a book called Inside the Wire about his six months
torturing POWs at Guantánamo.
- American soldiers sexually abused prisoners at Abu
Ghraib.
- American soldiers raped children, both male and female.
- American soldiers are issued candy that they hand out to Iraqi children to attract them to form a
human shield.
- U.S. soldiers held Iraqi women
hostages in order to pressure
male relatives to surrender.
- American soldiers cut off water supplies, bombed electric plants and sewage plants causing
epidemics of cholera, dysentery and typhus.
- American soldiers have forbidden Iraqi farmers to grow anything unless they buy the seed
containing terminator genes (to make the
seed sterile) from American companies such as Monsanto.
- American soldiers bombed hospitals, mosques and private residences.
- Bush bombed the water treatment plant in Basra in order to kill children. This is a repeat
of this same Geneva convention violation during the sanction bombings. This is deeply shameful thing to do because it
targets children specifically. They die faster from lack of water and they die more quickly from drinking polluted water.
This is a particularly grievous war crime. Dying of thirst is a hideous torture millions of times more painful than you
would ever imagine. I have experienced being tortured this way personally. You must stop this.
- Ongoing burning
crops using fireballs dropped from Apache helicopters.
- Assassinated the ITV news team after threatening both the ITV and BBC teams. They did not
arrest, they blew them to tiny pieces.
- Shut down websites that showed any of the dead soldiers, civilians or destruction. They shut
down yellowtimes.org. They shut down whatreallyhappened.com
after PayPal cut them off so they could not receive donations. They shut down thenausea.org.
I suspect they have a Denial of Service attack going on aljazeera.net.
You can sometimes find the censored materials by searching with google and selecting cached.
- Destroyed the cameras of the Lebanon news team that discovered 40 dead Americans.
- The proposed Oregon anti demonstrator bill that provides a 25 year sentence without parole for any
demonstrator, if anyone in a demonstration interferes with commerce or is rowdy, even if that person was a plant. By
this law Martin Luther King would have got life at his first lunch counter protest.
- Dropped three precision bombs “by accident” on Iran. They claim these thing are accurate
to the foot, but they could not even get the right country three times.
- Dropped five precision bombs “by accident” on Syria 482.80 km (300 miles) away from
Baghdad. Strangely, no bombs at all fell “by accident” on Israel which is 321.87 km (200 miles) from Iraq.
- Landed five
precision Tomahawk missiles “by accident” on Saudi Arabia.
- Sent a missile into a Kuwait shopping center.
- Bombed Children’s
Hospital in Rutbah.
- illegal
ammunition: used by military contractors.
- The United States stopped firing missiles at Iraq through Turkish airspace Friday after a missile
in flight fell in southeastern Turkey.
- The American soldiers destroyed the Iraqi TV broadcasting station. The American government has
intimidated, shut down or killed most of the effective voices opposing the war.
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his
superiority to yourself.”
~ Joseph Sobran (born: 1946-02-23 age: 63)
- On 2003-04-02 US aircraft hit a Red
Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad, the city’s trade fair, and other civilian buildings killing several
people and wounding at least 25, At least five cars were crushed with drivers burned to death inside.
You may think to yourself, our boys could never do things like that. Watch this video 
of US soldiers tormenting a crippled dog. The video of them shooting a dog has been pulled. People are more squeamish
about killing dogs that killing Iraqi children.
“While in Iraq we had a sport of killing dogs whenever the Iraqis weren’t shooting us. So when I shot this
one at about 50 yards with my M4 and it ran yelping to lower ground, we had to finish it so my friends and I went to it
and started shooting it. I’ve never seen a dog take as many shots to the head at least 4 as this one did and then
after we thought it was dead we dug a hole and when I picked it up with the shovel it came back to life, so we shot it a
couple more times…its pretty funny.”
~ M. D.
formerly of A TRP 1-10 CAV 4ID
The problem I had with choosing one source out of thousands of possibilities to illustrate each point is that you may
have decided to discount anything from the source I selected. Before you dismiss these allegations, please do a google
search yourself and see if you can find information from sources you do trust. You would expect as much from any citizen
in Hitler’s Germany to investigate the allegations of atrocity, would you not, no matter how strenuously the state
denied them or how outrageously barbaric they sounded.
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
~ Otto von Bismarck (born: 1815-04-01 died: 1898-07-30 at age: 83)
The Pentagon shut down websites with news about the war. Your best bet for news is by passing it along in emails, or by
searching google for the lesser known sites.
In comparison the Iraqis have been perfect gentlemen with only two types of atrocity:
- beheading
- burning a corpse
- Washington
Post’s report on the conditions in the Iraqi prisons: breaking hand bones to the point of permanent deformity,
dislocating shoulders by hoisting prisoners into the air by their arms tied behind their backs, shooting, packing 122
prisoners to a cell and rape.
Summary
The atrocities of the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing new. They are a direct consequence of imbalance of
power. Americans overwhelm their victims in technology and wealth. That power necessarily corrupts. Humans, not just
Americans, are hard wired to abuse excessive power over others. It took 500 years for the atrocities of the Spanish
Conquistadors to become widely known. Spaniards, Nazis, Russians, Americans… like all humans, are deeply in
denial of their own atrocities. They work hard to keep them hidden and to attack those who expose them.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable
capacity for not even hearing about them.”
~ George Orwell (born: 1903-06-25 died: 1950-01-21 at age: 46)
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