On 15 Aug 2002 at 1:35, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Hermit 8] The Geneva Convention is absolutely clear. In a 1979
> protocol relating to the "protection of victims of international armed
> conflicts," Article 54, it states: "It is prohibited to attack,
> destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the
> survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, crops,
> livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation
> works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance
> value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the
> motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to
> move away, or for any other motive."
>
> [Hermit 8] Did the US do this? Joe Dees says yes.
>
> [Joe Dees 4] We did degrade their water supplies, but we didn't
> actively infect the people (as the analogy to passing out smallpox
> blankets would have indicated), although we did, and had good reason
> to, suspect that nature would do that for us, in the absence of the
> good sense by the Iraqi population to boil their drinking water prior
> to consuming it. I wonder if Saddam Hussein even tried to tell his
> people to boil their drinking water, and if not, if he refused to do
> so because he was all too willing to have some of them die in order to
> exploit a propaganda point.
>
> [Hermit 8] Was my original contention incorrect, here it is again.
>
> [Hermit 1] In contravention of the Convention to Prevent Genocide, the
> United States took and is taking deliberate action designed to cause
> and disseminate lethal pathologies in Iraq in the anticipation that
> this would eventually lead to revolution. Instead about 1 million of
> the children of Iraq have died of these diseases.
>
> [Hermit 8] The DIA said that bombing the water infrastructure would
> lead to epidemics. WHat was the cause of the epidemics, US bombing of
> civilian infrastructure.
>
> [Hermit 8] Are these epidemics disseminating? The UN says that they
> are now endemic.
>
> [Hermit 8] The UN says that 2 million Iraqis are dead because of this
> action combined with the sanctions, over half of them children.
>
> [Hermit 8] What does Joe Dees say? The genocide is all the Iraqis' own
> fault.
>
> [Hermit 8] Where have we heard this Bull Shit before?
>
> [Hermit 8] Ah yes, Nuremburg. There it was all the Jews' fault.
> [Hermit 8] In Iraq , the genocide is all the Palestinians' fault. ???
> [Hermit 8] In the Palestine, the genocide is all the Palestinians'
> fault.
>
If the Israelis, woith all the firepower at thewir disposal, were actually
intending a Palestinian genocide instead of self-protection, the
Palestinian population would be shrinking, not growing, and the death
toll would be in the millions, not just three times the Israeli death toll.
I guess in Iraq, it's the Kurds' and the Shiites' fault, ayy? And what did
we do to the perpatrator of the Jewish genocide and his regime, and do
you consider that course of action wrong when applied to Saddam
Hussein?
>
> [Hermit 8] Or is it?
>
> [Hermit 8] "Surely the extermination of Jews in gas chambers is not
> comparable to the slow death inflicted in Iraqi children by
> deprivation. But from another angle the latter is even more
> despicable. The genocide against Jews was perpetrated in the greatest
> secret and without the blessing of the "civilized world". The crimes
> against Iraqi civilians are committed in full day-light, with the
> blessing of the ruling "civilized nations" and with the tacit support
> of the educated classes in these nations. Those who keep silent and
> are legally able to speak up, are morally accomplices to this crime."
> -- Elias Davidsson, Musician and a Palestinian Jew, 4/16/1999 posted
> in the open forum of www.arabamerican.com
>
Hermit seems constitutuonally unable to comprehend the meaning of
the word "disseminate", so I'll just have to repeat it to him until his straw
man scarecrow is burned to the ground and its ashes spread to the four
winds:
Main Entry: dis·sem·i·nate
Pronunciation: di-'se-m&-"nAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -nat·ed; -nat·ing
Etymology: Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare,
from dis- + seminare to sow, from semin-, semen seed -- more at
SEMEN
Date: 1603
1 : to spread abroad as though sowing seed <disseminate ideas>
2 : to disperse throughout
The US never spread viruses, spores or pathogens through the
Iraqi ecosystem. If Hermit has proof that the US did, I'd LOVE
for him to post it, and have repeatedly requested that he do so,
but, unable to fulfill such requests (since proof of something that
did not happen cannot exist), he chooses to ignore them, and
instead continues to shovel the same manure that we have come to
consider so typical of him. And now we are hearing the same
bullshit from him again.
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