Colin Melbourne
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Nov. 04 Update: 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths
The 'Lancet', Britain's most respected medical research journal, has published results of a survey showing a ten-fold increase in estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion.
Previous figures of non-combatants killed varied from 10 to 15 thousand. This latest data put the figure at 100,000.
Richard Horton, editor of the 'Lancet', commented that both he and the researchers were shocked by the massive number of innocent deaths. Commenting on their reliability, Horton stated they were 'subjected to the most rigourous peer review and statistical analysis', and he stands by their accuracy.
The data were obtained in face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Iraqi households chosen at random throughout the besieged country. Detailed questions were posed about the deaths of relatives, and the circumstances, together with a request to see death certificates. US and UK forces make no effort to record the numbers of civilians killed in their assaults; pre-war planners allowed for 10,000 civilian deaths.
This survey is the most detailed attempt to gain an accurate figure since the war began. Even anti-war organizations are shocked at the gruesome tally, which exceeds their rough estimates by far.
The survey showed that most of the deaths were women and children killed in US bombing raids, and that the number of casualties has actually increased since the war was declared 'over'.
Dr. Les Roberts, who oversaw the study by scientists from the US Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said: "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more, have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most of the violent deaths." (Emphasis added)
Part III
Send in the Clowns : The Madness of King George III
Originally published April 04
'There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies live at peace with him. Holy Bible, Pr. 16:25, 16:7 NIV
The King's Fool walks a tightrope. Honour and wealth meet the clown who treads it by flattering and amusing his ruler, but swift rolls the head that dares displease its master.
American servicemen and women are tired of being their King's Fool, they are beginning to say the 'unthinkable'. Grieving mothers are openly denouncing their leaders, now that it has become obvious that Bush, Blair, and their sycophants, repeatedly lied to create a false motive for attacking defenceless Iraq. They've seen the reality, discovered the awful truth, and they are daring to tell the world.
Two US army doctors, sick of the carnage, have applied to be conscientious objectors. That takes real courage. One serviceman went AWOL, refusing to return to Iraq, appalled at US brutality towards civilians. There's hope for a man like that. But none for those throwing away their integrity by laying down their lives in a useless grab for oil.
Is it so surprising to see Spain begin to reap what it has sown? Despite 92% of Spaniards vociferously opposing the Iraq invasion, their leader ignored them, supported Bush's illegal onslaught, and made his people a target for revenge attacks. It seemed right to him, and it led to death.
The Polish Prime Minister has stated that he was misled by the US and its fabricated 'evidence' of WMD. Similarly, Italian leaders are distancing themselves from US extremists, and are finally beginning to listen to Italian public opinion. New Ager, Tony Blair is finished politically, not even his speech writers believe the ludicrous lies he's still dutifully passing on from his Whitehouse idols. Britain has had enough of his 'special relationship' with Washington, and it will not require outrage at the inevitable London or Birmingham bombing to oust him.
Even sinners understand that you reap what you sow. The Anglo-US revenge attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq have seeded a generation with seething resentment, which capturing Osama bin Laden will do nothing to assuage. Instead of following Christ and His Spirit, by loving their enemies as He commands, the phoney 'Christians' have indulged their sinful nature in a continuing blood-bath. The way seemed right to them, and it led to death.
Current Oval Office scheming puts the last act of Macbeth in the shade. Within hours of Spain's voters throwing out José Maria Aznar; Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz were sent to fire a panic broadside of propaganda from the comfort of their bunkers. Simultaneously, a fresh batch of indoctrinated US troops were sent to Iraq to replace those who've woken up to the fact they're being lied to, and ruthlessly exploited, to keep King George happy, and expand his empire.
It's time to send in the clowns, and if they too lose their heads, the way seems right to George: Even though it still leads to death.
Part IV
The Devil You Know : The Madness of King George III
Originally published May 04
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. Pr. 16:32
Ten more American troops died today, making a total of 126 killed during April, the bloodiest month for the US since its illegal invasion of Iraq began. That does not include the deaths of over 80 mercenaries employed to protect the 'liberators'. So alarmed is George's Viceroy, by the increasing frequency of attacks, that troops have been forbidden from reporting incidents unless US personnel are actually killed. Legs blown off, no need to report that, we don't want 'folks back home' to get the impression their $185 billion has been wasted, or they may begin to question the integrity and wisdom of their leaders.
It would, of course, be very bad taste to mention the US massacre of 600 civilians in Fallujah, which even the fawning BBC admits were, 'mostly women, children, and the elderly.' The deployment of helicopter gunships against residential areas, and consequent indiscriminate slaughter of civilians is a Bush family trait. GBI set the standard bombing the barrios of Panama City in 1989; and no doubt is encouraging GBII to shrug off criticism of such crimes by claiming 'the enemy is hiding behind civilian shields'.
One valiant un-embedded reporter venturing into the anarchy of Iraq was handed what he mistook for half a loaf of bread. It was in fact half a baby, blown apart by US forces bent on vengeance for the killing of four US mercenaries, earning $1,000 a day as hired guns. They had a choice; the innocent babes had none. Like their dead mothers, they 'just got in the way of their 'saviour's' bullets.
George is dauntless; it's all going to plan. Lovers of 'freedom and democracy' rejoice, and come July 'sovereignty' will be 'handed to the Iraqi people'. Freedom from one tyrant; to be subjects of Uncle Sam's puppets. 'Democracy', sorry not yet, you're not ready. 'Sovereignty' not exactly, how about 'civil authority', you really need US troops to protect you'.
So having achieved in just one year what it took British invaders three years to do by 1924, namely, provoking both Sunni and Shias to unite in an ultimately victorious insurgency, George turned his diplomatic skills toward solving the Israel-Palestine conflict. In one incredulous meeting with Ariel Sharon, he succeeded in infuriating the whole Arab world by yielding to the powerful US Jewish lobby to secure their support for his re-election. Literally, answering the prayers of Osama bin Laden et al.
Is there method in his madness?
America is morally bankrupt, and well on the road to financial ruin, with a plummeting dollar, rising unemployment, and an increasingly disenchanted populace. Bush's policies have brought universal condemnation upon his nation, and his minders know he's finished and unelectable. There's just one desperate final ploy.
They recall the afterglow, and they need another 9/11 before November.
'Will they buy it Dick?'
'Sure they will George. Remember what your Daddy says:
'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.''
'OK Dick, let's bring it on, what have we got to lose?'
Part V: Barking : The Madness of King George III
Originally published June 04
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked. By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down. Holy Bible, Pr. 29:12,4
One of the most sinister men on earth today, who, because of his blood-stained statesman's hands, and deadly intrigues, is high on many Christian's nominations as the AntiChrist, had this to say about America's psychotic Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld,
'He is the most ruthless man I've ever met.'
Leafing through Himmler's handiwork for fresh inspiration, doubtless, Donald takes that as a great compliment. He purloined the term 'Shock and Awe' from a Nazi publication.
It comes as no surprise that Rumsfeld showed scant interest in reading the report on his desk detailing the atrocities and torture inflicted by his sadistic troops on Iraqi prisoners. 70% of whom, according to the US Military and International Red Cross, are innocent, having been arrested by mistake. Torture is news, but it's not new, so why bother the Secretary of Defence about it?
Blood lust, entrenched racism, and brutal torture have always been a part of US military offensives; from the butchering of a million, mostly civilian, Filipinos, in the Spanish-American wars; and the greatest unpunished war crime of WWII, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to the trophies carried in the wallets of Vietnam veterans. Sliced from their victims, treasured tokens, mementoes, to remind them of their war crimes: dried human body parts.
None of the current exposure of US thuggery is shocking to Colin Powell, though he pretends to be appalled. He cut his political teeth, dutifully lying and covering up the My Lai massacre, painting it as an aberration, rather than the truth: that it was the norm. US forces in Vietnam rarely differentiated between civilians and enemies. Their motto was 'Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out.' They called them 'Gooks' and 'Dinks', and strove to slaughter all Vietnamese 'Communists', like they did Native American 'savages', to continue the American Dream in new colonies.
Rumsfeld has assiduously cultivated the same racism in Iraq, substituting, 'Ragheads' for 'Slope-heads', to de-humanise the enemy. So it becomes easy for US Marine snipers to fire on ambulances taking pregnant mothers to hospital and, shoot Iraqi children in their homes. One Marine boasted of such war crimes as 'killing rats in their nests'. Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the invasion of Iraq, speaks of 'snakes' and 'draining the swamps' in the 'uncivilised parts of the world'.
Even the vaunted British 'professionals' have been found out. An innocent hotel worker was kicked to death by a squaddie, and an eight year old girl was amongst 37 innocents shot dead by UK soldiers.
Henry Kissinger is not the only one impressed by Rumsfeld's ruthlessness; George slapped him on the back, and endorsed Donald's demonic diligence with the comment:
"He's doing a superb job!"
Which of course he is: for the AntiChrist spirit.
Earning Sin's Wages : The Madness of King George III Part VI Originally published July 04
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Holy Bible, Gal. 6:7-8
None but the terminally naïve, wilfully ignorant, and self-deluded can fail to see through the Bush Administration's pseudo-Christian guise. It has been obvious to all not blinded by Satan, that the American revenge attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq used the 11th. September incidents, and lies about WMD, as a pretext to launch a long planned onslaught to pillage Arab oil and expand its hegemony.
Equally predictable, are the disastrous results, which even brainwashed Americans are starting to recognize: with much worse to come, because God cannot be mocked. And George Bush has not only mocked God with his ludicrous 'Christian' posturing, but also trampled God's Word underfoot, and brought disgrace upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God commands Christians to love their enemies, not butcher them, whilst mouthing nonsensical rhetoric about freedom and democracy.
A Christian reaction to the WTC atrocity would be to forgive the terrorists, and ask for forgiveness for the long history of US backed brutality that prompted it in the first place. Then to put right what is wrong, and make restitution for centuries of US atrocities around the world.
What an example of genuine Christian faith and humility that would have been. Sure to have melted their enemy's hearts, and more importantly brought Heaven's power, protection, and blessing.
Instead, Republican Richard Clarke tells us in his revealing account, Against All Enemies that G.W. Bush's reaction was,
"I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass."
In other words, revenge: arising from the sinful nature, and whipped up by demonic national wounded pride. A sure recipe for death and disaster, as we are now witnessing, bringing judgment upon America instead of blessing.
Listen to Jimmy Massey, one of the most gung-ho US Marines, who was at the forefront of the Iraq invasion:
"I killed innocent people for our government. For what? What did I do? Where is the good coming out of it? I feel like I've had a hand in some sort of evil lie at the hands of our government. I just feel embarrassed, ashamed about it. I honestly feel that what we're doing is wrong over here. We're committing genocide".
"I've had an impeccable career. I chose to get out. And you know who I blame? I blame the president of the U.S. It's not the grunt. I blame the president because he said they had weapons of mass destruction. It was a lie."
There's blood on Jimmy's hands, innocent blood, and lots of it. He describes in sickening detail how trigger-happy Marines are in Iraq, how they slaughter unarmed civilians by 'lighting them up' with machine gun fire. He received an honourable discharge after 12 years as a Marine, because he was revolted by the invasion, and wants to help people not kill them.
There's much more blood on King George's hands, and those of his accomplices, but no sign of the courage shown by Jimmy Massey in admitting he'd been deceived and starting to repent.
Uncle Sam is still sowing death, and will surely reap destruction because God cannot be mocked.
Hitler's Brain : The Madness of King George III Part VII Originally published Aug 04
A fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness. Holy Bible, Pr. 10:12-13
Cast your mind back to New York, UN headquarters, February 2003, when Uncle Sam's Secretary of State attempted the most brazen deception in the sordid history of warmongering, with all the panache of a sideshow hustler selling tickets to view Hitler's pickled brain.
"Ladies and Gentleman, I give you exqui-site proof of its au-then-ticity..."
It fooled most inside America, and none outside. Sweet to the ears of the brainwashed; staggering self-delusion, and deception to people who'd bothered to check the proven facts.
Scott Ritter, former US Marine and Chief Unscom weapons inspector in Iraq, along with many others was loudly reminding anyone who'd listen that Saddam Hussein had been 95% disarmed by 1998, and there was not a shred of evidence to show he'd resumed attempts to make WMD.
Saddam was already completely de-fanged, and harmless. Not even tiny neighbouring Kuwait feared attack from the sanctions crippled country. Hans Blix reported almost 100% co-operation with the resumed weapons inspections, and he confirmed there was no evidence of resumption of WMD construction.
Facts are powerful things, and these facts were known to the Bush administration, Tony Blair, and the intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. I knew these facts when Powell performed his piece at the UN, so did all who cared to check the public records. Your current leaders deliberately lied to create propaganda to support an illegal invasion, that killed 11,000 civilians and maimed countless more.
American, Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and friend of Bush's father said recently:
"Now we know that no other president of the United States has ever lied so baldly, and so often, and so demonstrably . . . The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything." He added: "It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, Howard".
All their 'irrefutable evidence' was faked, as Powell has now hinted. Bush made jokes about the lack of evidence of weapons, the sinister Wolfowitz described the WMD 'story' as what they 'agreed' upon as one the public would swallow. Even the rabid Rumsfeld admits there was never any link between Iraq and al-Queda. Many Americans still cling to this deception, as a result of the barrage of brainwashing from the media.
Yet the lying continues unabated. They are lying about Afghanistan, where even medical aid agencies have had to leave because warlords rule by the gun, whilst the puppet president controls a mean portion of Kabul. Opium production is back to sky-high pre-Taleban levels, and only the constant presence of a posse of US forces prevents Mr. Karzi meeting the same fate as his predecessor Naji Bulah, strung up on a lamppost.
Similarly Iraq; in contrast to the US media propaganda, is about to explode. In the first month since the 'handover' of 'sovereignty' the death toll has been over 700 in Baghdad alone, the highest figure since the 'end of the war'. Electricity and water supplies are far below pre-invasion levels, and the terrified American troops dare not venture from their walled fortresses for fear of being gunned down, by those they claim to have liberated.
King George Bush proudly declared recently:
"It will take time to restore chaos in Iraq, but we will."
He has.
In 1946, the panel of American and British judges who tried the German Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg called the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country "the supreme international war crime".
This is the crime committed by the Bush and Blair governments.
The idea of holding Iraqi elections in January is farcical. US servicemen in Iraq know there will be no election in January, and they ask why people in America are not being told the truth; that Iraq is deteriorating daily, and their leaders are still lying to the world about the side show.
Following in the steps of WWI German invaders who had 'God With Us' embossed on their belt buckles, and Hitler who agreed a concordat with the Roman Catholic pope, 'proving God was on his side', George claims similar divine approval for his evil 'crusade', whilst trampling the Word of God underfoot, and fulfilling the Scripture:
A fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness. Pr. 10:12-13
"Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen, only 50 cents to see Hitler's Brain, and the man with no body!"
Denying Christ : The Madness of King George III Part VIII Originally published Oct 04
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? Holy Bible, Lk. 6:46
The first act of every American king is the public denial of Christ. The compulsory swearing of an oath is a direct contradiction of the Lord Jesus Christ, who commands,
Do not swear at all... simply let your 'Yes', be 'Yes, and your, 'No', be 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. Mtt. 5:34, 37
So important is this, the Holy Spirit repeats it to believers in Jas. 5:12. That is why Christians do not swear oaths of any kind, because to do so is to deny the Lord they love. Who said, If you love me you will obey what I command. Love your enemies. Jn. 14:15, Lk. 6:35
You tell a Christian by what they do, and you tell a child of the devil by what they do.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. 1 Jn. 3:10
Christians love their Brother, Jesus Christ, and they obey Him. Phonies, pay lip service, then deny Him by their actions.
The King of Glory sent prophets and held out the hand of mercy to His enemies. But they killed His messengers, so He came in Person to show His love for those who hated Him, and they murdered Him too.
God chose to die for His worst enemies rather than harm them, and in doing so provided perfect redemption for you, and anyone who will repent and believe in Him.
His Message? Take up your Cross and follow me.
That is how you defeat your enemies, by denying yourself, and following Christ. Loving them like He does. It never fails.
Anything other than this is a denial of Christ resulting in ignominious and inevitable failure.
America has rejected The King of Heaven, to serve wolves in sheep's clothing, men following the antiChrist spirit, who oppress, and butcher for selfish gain. That is how their nation was founded; starting with the genocide of its own natives, colonial invasions, and bloody pillaging stretching from the Americas to the Philippines. Importing black 'natives' to be their slaves, treating human beings like animals, becoming fat and rich from the spoils of war and forced labour.
Britain's Empire was much the same, and swiftly came under judgment, as all empires do. Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Persia, Rome, and Britain, each ruled their wicked empires for a brief season: look at them now. They are dust bowls, and ruins, the haunts of demons and jackals awaiting final Judgment.
King George and the Uncle Sam cult are doomed, because of the ocean of lies; the rivers of innocent blood, and the countless ways Christ is denied and Satan glorified by America.
Whatever the outcome of the forthcoming election, the 'winner's' lips on Inauguration Day will once again deny the Lord Jesus Christ before men.
What follows should be no surprise.
Powerful Delusions: The Madness of King George III part IX Originally published Dec. 04
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan. . .and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. 2 Th. 2:9-12 Holy Bible NIV
All empires are founded on delusion and deception and quickly collapse because of their inherent sinfulness. Leaders fool themselves and their subjects, but not Almighty God. King George, in laying the foundations of the AntiChrist's final empire, is walking in the steps of not only crazy King Saul, but also Judas Iscariot, betraying for worldly gain the One he claims to follow.
Deluded Americans, brainwashed and tutored in idolatry from cradle to grave, have played their part by endorsing a further term of demonic folly. English news headlines asked, 'How could 59 million people be so stupid?'.
The answer is the Uncle Sam cult's media control and mass indoctrination methods, established over a century ago when propaganda was still respectable. And Britain is on the same course, fed by the BBC, and Murdochized press, who merely channel 'approved truths' of the establishment to the gullible. The BBC was founded in the 1920's at the prompting of America, because the UK was lagging behind in the subtle skills of media manipulation.
So Americans encouraged by self-censorship of their gutless 'free' press, swallowed the delusion that King George is a 'Christian' knight in armour, and that they are fighting for God and good.
They thoroughly deserve what is coming upon them for delighting in evil.
A young Iraqi woman described the horror of American brutality in Fallujah last week. Right in front of her eyes a US bomb blew the foetus from her sister's womb. In April's attack it was routine for US snipers to fire on ambulances carrying pregnant women to hospital, and shoot innocent children dead inside their homes. The subservient 'embedded media' describe it as 'cleansing pockets of resistance'.
Medical relief workers in Fallujah estimate over 6,000 people were killed in this latest war crime, to add to the already 100,000 civilian deaths caused by America's illegal invasion of Iraq. The obscenity reached new heights as US forces prepared to attack...
"Marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them... [the marines] perceive themselves as warriors fighting barbaric men opposed to all that is good in the world.... waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles beside them, and chanted heavy metal-flavoured lyrics in praise of Christ... 'Victory belongs to the Lord,' another young marine read.... The marines then lined up and their chaplain blessed them with holy oil to protect them." Marine Colonel Brandl declared: "The enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He lives in Fallujah. And we're going to destroy him."
Such false Christians, so deluded they believe they are 'Killing for Jesus', justify trampling Christ's plain commands underfoot, by appealing to Old Testament examples of butchering enemies. In so doing they not only deny Christ's express command, Love your enemies do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you, but also discard the New Covenant sealed in His Blood, placing themselves under the Old Covenant.
Powerful delusions: bringing eternal Judgement upon the deluded.
Be busy and alert Saints!
Colin Melbourne