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=> the Iraqi Genocide....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, September 26 2010, 16:05:00 (UTC)
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..for the last seven years (17 in total) we´ve seen Christians in Iraq killing not just men, but women and children too...and I´m sure dogs have been killed. The war is still going on. Is this genocide?

To answer let´s chose any one of the list of definitions used by scholars, including even the UN definition....I pick the one below...but any will do. (the most damning fact is "prior intent".)

1946 Raphael Lemkin:

The crime of genocide should be recognized therein as a

1. "conspiracy to exterminate national, religious or racial groups."

...I would say this applies to what the United States, and several other Christian nations are doing now in Iraq...the "war", such as it was lasted four days...this occupation has consisted of killing Iraqis if they dare resist.

2. "The overt acts of such a conspiracy may consist of attacks against life, liberty or property of members of such groups merely because of their affiliation with such groups."

...Iraqis have suffered all of the above not because they did anything to deserve it, but because they happen to be Muslims (with lots of oil...being members of an oil-rich group still qualifies)

3. "The formulation of the crime may be as follows: "Whoever, while participating in a conspiracy to destroy a national, racial or religious group,"

...Does anyone deny that this is what is being done to Iraqis?

4. "undertakes an attack against life, liberty or property of members of such groups"

...Anyone deny this is what has been occuring?

5. "is guilty of the crime of genocide. (Genocide, American Scholar, Volume 15, no. 2 (April 1946), p. 227-230)[8] "

...does that describe the United States and other Christian countries...one of those preferred Christian countries we should all want to live in?

So...where´s the protest, the righteous indignation...why isn´t Tiglath calling this a genocide and insisting as hard as he is over the Turks, that it be recognized for what it is? Why aren´t Christians, who expect Muslims to "just admit their crimes", admitting to their own? And why not go first since the Iraqi genocide is ongoing while the so-called Armenian genocide happened 90 years ago?

The "good" Germans didn´t notice antthing either.

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the Iraqi Genocide.... pancho - Sunday, September 26 2010, 16:05:00 (UTC)
- Re: the Iraqi Genocide.... Arrow - 09/26 21:48
  - Re: the Iraqi Genocide.... pancho - 09/27 01:12
    - Re: the Iraqi Genocide.... Rashad - 09/27 04:39

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