Open letter to PM
This is an OPEN LETTER being sent to you concerning "excess mortality" and infant mortality in Iraq. As a citizen of Australia I appreciate your problems over the last few years of not receiving accurate and timely information from your subordinates in the Australian public service e.g. over the non-occurrence of "children overboard"; the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and, most recently, the systemic torture of Iraqi prisoners of the Coalition. In order to avoid such problems, I am sending the following information on horrendous mortality in Iraq to you directly (with copies to other MPs, media and fellow citizens). [The] horrendous Iraq "excess mortality" (= actual deaths MINUS deaths expected with the same demographics and a peaceful society) is 5.2 million since 1950 and 1.5 million since 1991 (http://www.control.com.au). This type of scientific analysis is quite revealing: thus "excess mortality" since the ostensibly "bloodless" Fiji coup of 1987 has been about 4500; "excess mortality" since 1967 in the Palestinian Occupied Territories has been about 340,000; and "excess mortality" in Afghanistan since 1950 has been 16.2 million. The horrendous Iraq "excess mortality" estimates are consonant with UNICEF-derived figures for under-five infant mortality, namely 3.3 million since 1950 and 1.2 million since 1991. According to UNICEF, in 2001 the under-five infant mortality was 109,000 in Iraq (population 24 million) and 277,000 in Afghanistan (population 22 million) — as compared with about 1,000 in Australia (population 20 million). Estimated current infant mortality in war-ravaged Iraq is about 100,000 per year (300 per day). In these difficult times it is vital for people of all kinds who are committed to peace, goodwill and humanity to honestly address the most important global issues. The Iraq holocaust is NOT being reported by global media; the victims are overwhelmingly CHILDREN. Dr Gideon Polya Macleod, Victoria Contact Dr Gideon Polya on(03) 9459 3649[+61 3 9459 3649].