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War Criminals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
By James Donahue
The world still lists Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot among the worst mass killers of all time. But former U. S. President George W. Bush and his cohort, Vice-President Dick Cheney, may yet go down in history as the worst of them all.
Because of the politics operating in the United States, and the fact that the U.S. still possesses the most powerful and imposing military force in existence, the response to what these two men and other members of their Washington cabinet did in Iraq and Afghanistan during the eight brutal years they were in power has been slow in coming. But their deeds are not forgotten.
While Bush was the elected president, it is well known that Mr. Cheney was the manipulator of national policies from behind the curtain. Editorial cartoonists, even during the years they were in office, often depicted Bush as a ventriloquist’s dummy seated on Cheney’s lap, or as a puppet on a string manipulated by Cheney from behind the curtain.
These men were brutal killers who also re-instituted torture against prisoners-of-war after invading Middle Eastern countries without just cause. They used the 9-11 attacks as their excuse, but the attacks were planned and carried out by rogue terrorists representing neither Afghanistan nor Iraq. Some theorists believe the attacks may have been a false-flag event designed to give the Bush Administration the power to declare war.
The United States launched “Operation Enduring Freedom” against Afghanistan in 2001, beginning with air assaults and soon after this sending ground troops. They said their target was al-Qaeda, a radical Islamic terrorist network operating throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, Indonesia and India. The group’s only link with Afghanistan was that the plot for the attack on the United States was orchestrated there.
The Afghanistan conflict has since turned out to be the longest war in U.S. history, with troops still there and still fighting; not against al-Qaeda but against the Afghanistan Taliban, a militant group that just wants us to leave. Since this war began more than 91,000 Afghanistans including civilians, soldiers and militants have been recorded killed. Rough estimates show an additional 360,000 civilians have been killed through indirect causes. The numbers do not include those who have died in neighboring Pakistan, where the war also has spilled.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq began in 2003 and officially ended at the end of the Bush term when Barack Obama took office in 2009. The fighting never stopped, however since the loss of Dictator Saddam Hussein opened the door for civil war among the three different factions of Islam. Thus U.S. forces have remained in Iraq in a constant peace-keeping effort and also as part of a “War Against Terror,” also launched by the Bush Administration.
During this fighting U.S. forces used weapons with the potential to generate massive toxic poisoning of the people, and land, air and water, thus poisoning the Nation of Iraq for generations to come. They dropped white phosphorous, modified napalm cluster bombs, “thermos boric” weapons and munitions laced with spent uranium thus spreading radioactive isotopes everywhere. The toxins were designed to be spread through sand and dust storms, winds and other means for hundreds of miles in all directions. Thus the deadly effects of what was done are still occurring in Iraq and surrounding areas.
As of this date, February 2016, the documented civilian and military deaths in Iraq stands at 242,000 and counting. Thousands of people have been dying from cancer, starvation and other issues caused by the poisoning of the land. It is believed that when and if a final count can be made, the death levels will be much higher than recorded after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Recent research by a team of American doctors in the area confirmed that deformed babies are haunting the hospitals and medical teams. The babies are being born with limb deformities, stunted extremities, cleft lips and palates, internal organs on the outside of the body, and hands, feet and fingers and toes fused together. The children are showing extremely high levels of lead that is affecting their bones, teeth and causing neurodevelopment disorders.
The extreme concentrations of heavy metals like Titanium, Magnesium, Lead and Mercury used in the munitions exploded in major populated areas have been found to be linked to a rise in Parkinson Disease and cancers. The nano-particles are in the air and consequently are being inhaled and consumed in food and drink. They build up in the system and concentrate in internal tissues such as the lymph nodes.
Iraq has been an ongoing horror show since the night Mr. Bush announced his “shock and awe” assault on Baghdad and Americans watched the bombs exploding via their home television sets.
It is said that hired US corporations Halliburton and KBR built massive open-air burn pits, some up to 10 acres, to destroy large quantities of waste products generated by the war. The waste included dead batteries, electronic equipment, plastics, asbestos, plus dead animals and human corpses. An estimated 147 tons of this stuff was burned every day. The air was laced with the toxic fumes from the fires that never stopped burning. It not only poisoned the Iraqis, but U.S. soldiers came home with toxins in their lungs that will likely lead to early death from cancer.
One report said young Iraqi women are terrified of having children because of the number of babies now being born grotesquely deformed. Some have no heads, others have two heads, only one eye, missing limbs, and they are dying of leukemia and a variety of other cancers.
One report stated: “the toxicification of Iraq’s environment and complete destruction of its social infrastructure by US imperialism have produced a growing public health catastrophe that constitutes one of the greatest war crimes of the Twenty-first Century.”
This is the legacy left by Bush and Cheney who have yet to be brought before an international court of justice to answer for what they have done.
To date, only one nation, Kuala Lumpur, has dared to hold a war crimes trial in absentia, charging not only Bush and Cheney, but Donald Rumsfeld, and their legal advisors, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo for treating war criminals with cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. The little Malaysian nation found all of them guilty.
Full transcripts of the trial were sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and to the United Nations Security Council. The names are included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.
By James Donahue
The world still lists Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot among the worst mass killers of all time. But former U. S. President George W. Bush and his cohort, Vice-President Dick Cheney, may yet go down in history as the worst of them all.
Because of the politics operating in the United States, and the fact that the U.S. still possesses the most powerful and imposing military force in existence, the response to what these two men and other members of their Washington cabinet did in Iraq and Afghanistan during the eight brutal years they were in power has been slow in coming. But their deeds are not forgotten.
While Bush was the elected president, it is well known that Mr. Cheney was the manipulator of national policies from behind the curtain. Editorial cartoonists, even during the years they were in office, often depicted Bush as a ventriloquist’s dummy seated on Cheney’s lap, or as a puppet on a string manipulated by Cheney from behind the curtain.
These men were brutal killers who also re-instituted torture against prisoners-of-war after invading Middle Eastern countries without just cause. They used the 9-11 attacks as their excuse, but the attacks were planned and carried out by rogue terrorists representing neither Afghanistan nor Iraq. Some theorists believe the attacks may have been a false-flag event designed to give the Bush Administration the power to declare war.
The United States launched “Operation Enduring Freedom” against Afghanistan in 2001, beginning with air assaults and soon after this sending ground troops. They said their target was al-Qaeda, a radical Islamic terrorist network operating throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, Indonesia and India. The group’s only link with Afghanistan was that the plot for the attack on the United States was orchestrated there.
The Afghanistan conflict has since turned out to be the longest war in U.S. history, with troops still there and still fighting; not against al-Qaeda but against the Afghanistan Taliban, a militant group that just wants us to leave. Since this war began more than 91,000 Afghanistans including civilians, soldiers and militants have been recorded killed. Rough estimates show an additional 360,000 civilians have been killed through indirect causes. The numbers do not include those who have died in neighboring Pakistan, where the war also has spilled.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq began in 2003 and officially ended at the end of the Bush term when Barack Obama took office in 2009. The fighting never stopped, however since the loss of Dictator Saddam Hussein opened the door for civil war among the three different factions of Islam. Thus U.S. forces have remained in Iraq in a constant peace-keeping effort and also as part of a “War Against Terror,” also launched by the Bush Administration.
During this fighting U.S. forces used weapons with the potential to generate massive toxic poisoning of the people, and land, air and water, thus poisoning the Nation of Iraq for generations to come. They dropped white phosphorous, modified napalm cluster bombs, “thermos boric” weapons and munitions laced with spent uranium thus spreading radioactive isotopes everywhere. The toxins were designed to be spread through sand and dust storms, winds and other means for hundreds of miles in all directions. Thus the deadly effects of what was done are still occurring in Iraq and surrounding areas.
As of this date, February 2016, the documented civilian and military deaths in Iraq stands at 242,000 and counting. Thousands of people have been dying from cancer, starvation and other issues caused by the poisoning of the land. It is believed that when and if a final count can be made, the death levels will be much higher than recorded after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Recent research by a team of American doctors in the area confirmed that deformed babies are haunting the hospitals and medical teams. The babies are being born with limb deformities, stunted extremities, cleft lips and palates, internal organs on the outside of the body, and hands, feet and fingers and toes fused together. The children are showing extremely high levels of lead that is affecting their bones, teeth and causing neurodevelopment disorders.
The extreme concentrations of heavy metals like Titanium, Magnesium, Lead and Mercury used in the munitions exploded in major populated areas have been found to be linked to a rise in Parkinson Disease and cancers. The nano-particles are in the air and consequently are being inhaled and consumed in food and drink. They build up in the system and concentrate in internal tissues such as the lymph nodes.
Iraq has been an ongoing horror show since the night Mr. Bush announced his “shock and awe” assault on Baghdad and Americans watched the bombs exploding via their home television sets.
It is said that hired US corporations Halliburton and KBR built massive open-air burn pits, some up to 10 acres, to destroy large quantities of waste products generated by the war. The waste included dead batteries, electronic equipment, plastics, asbestos, plus dead animals and human corpses. An estimated 147 tons of this stuff was burned every day. The air was laced with the toxic fumes from the fires that never stopped burning. It not only poisoned the Iraqis, but U.S. soldiers came home with toxins in their lungs that will likely lead to early death from cancer.
One report said young Iraqi women are terrified of having children because of the number of babies now being born grotesquely deformed. Some have no heads, others have two heads, only one eye, missing limbs, and they are dying of leukemia and a variety of other cancers.
One report stated: “the toxicification of Iraq’s environment and complete destruction of its social infrastructure by US imperialism have produced a growing public health catastrophe that constitutes one of the greatest war crimes of the Twenty-first Century.”
This is the legacy left by Bush and Cheney who have yet to be brought before an international court of justice to answer for what they have done.
To date, only one nation, Kuala Lumpur, has dared to hold a war crimes trial in absentia, charging not only Bush and Cheney, but Donald Rumsfeld, and their legal advisors, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo for treating war criminals with cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. The little Malaysian nation found all of them guilty.
Full transcripts of the trial were sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and to the United Nations Security Council. The names are included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.