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    Support for Iraq war Reparations is growing

    Although US MSM has been wisely not covering this ( potnetial laibilities for neoconservative groups, media outlets owners who may have pushed false yellow cake claims to help start lies based racially motivated war, official institutions could be in $Trillions ) but under the radar movement to secure reparations for victims of Iraq conflicts including US led Iraqi Freedom war has been spreading. Center For Civilian Rights is one of such groups driving this.
    Some previous estimates had put cost of Iraq Freedom War to US taxpayers to be as high as $6 Trillion.


    https://minorityrights.org/wp-conten...ember-2017.pdf


    Iraq’s Law No. 20 on Compensation
    for Victims of Military Operations,
    Military Mistakes and Terrorist Actions

    As detailed in the Introduction, Iraq has experience with a number of
    reparations initiatives corresponding to the different periods of conflict and
    dictatorship through which the country has passed. These have included
    reparations awarded in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and various
    reparations schemes put into place after 2003 for victims of the Saddam
    Hussein regime. The most relevant scheme for the purposes of this report,
    however, is the scheme created by Law 20 on Compensation for Victims of
    Military Operations, Military Mistakes and Terrorist Actions. Passed in 2009 and
    amended in 2015, the law remains in force, raising the question of whether it
    can act as an effective basis for compensating victims of the conflict with ISIS.


    For the victims of military operations, military mis-
    takes and terrorist actions, and allocated it respon-
    sibility for forming subcommittees in each
    governorate responsible for receiving all types of
    claims. The role of the Central Committee in Bagh-
    dad is now limited to making the final decision on
    cases of property damage and reviewing appeals
    on other types of cases. The composition of the Cen-
    tral Committee was also changed to include only
    three ministries, as well as representatives of the
    KRG, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights,
    and a representative of the victims themselves.
    Lastly, the one-time grant amounts provided under
    the law were increased and now range from
    IQD2.5 million to IQD5 million (US$2,115 to
    US$4,230), depending on the gravity of damage.

    Progress on
    compensating victims
    from 2009 to present

    Official figures obtained from the Central Com-
    mittee show that considerable progress was made
    in compensating victims of military operations,
    military mistakes and terrorist actions since Law
    20 was passed. During the period 2011–16, deci-
    sions were reached on a total of 65,046 cases in-
    volving property damage and 118,894 claims
    involving martyrs, injuries and lost persons. The
    total amount awarded to victims over this five-
    year period was more than IQD420 billion (over
    US$355 million).


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    15 Years After Invasion, Demands for Iraq War Reparations, New Global Peace Movement
    The war "provided the platform for mass civilian casualties, war crimes, and a vast boon to corporations seeking to profit from war-making—with almost complete impunity to this day."



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    Bump + rep

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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    If they target the guilty I'm willing to listen, if they target the taxpayers they can get lost.
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    Latest Social Justice/Lives Matter movements and such payments for past violent misdeeds could potentailly set a damaging precedent from standpoint of US national deficits and debt passed on to future grandchildrens:


    Germany will pay Namibia $1.3bn as it formally recognizes colonial-era genocide

    Fri May 28, 2021

    A memorial to the genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1907) committed by German colonial troops in the Namibian capital Windhoek. The inscription translates: "Your blood nourishes our freedom."

    (CNN)More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide.

    Germany will support Namibia and the descendants of the victims with €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) for reconstruction and development and ask for forgiveness for the "crimes of German colonial rule," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a statement on Friday.

    "Our goal was and is to find a common path to genuine reconciliation in memory of the victims. This includes naming the events of the German colonial period in what is now Namibia, and in particular the atrocities in the period from 1904 to 1908, without sparing or glossing over them. We will now also officially call these events what they were from today's perspective: a genocide," Maas said.

    cnn.com/2021/05/28/africa/germany-recognizes-colonial-genocide-namibia-intl/index.html





    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    If they target the guilty I'm willing to listen, if they target the taxpayers they can get lost.
    Who are the guilty parties in your book?





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    Monday, March 19, 2018

    15 Years After Invasion, Demands for Iraq War Reparations

    The war "provided the platform for mass civilian casualties, war crimes, and a vast boon to corporations seeking to profit from war-making—with almost complete impunity to this day."
    Andrea Germanos, staff writer

    A sign seen at a 2007 anti-war protest. The renewed call for war reparations for Iraq on Monday comes a day after a network of progressive organizations hosted a video conference because "the threat of war affects us all, and the call for peace must come from everywhere." (Photo: Thiago Santos/cc/flickr)

    Marking the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a human and civil rights organization issued a renewed demand for reparations for survivors of the war and said a "new, global anti-war movement is needed more than ever."
    In its statement released Monday, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) calls attention to the ongoing human costs of the war as well as the lack of punishment government officials and corporate entities have faced for atrocities they committed in Iraq.
    The "illegal war" that began in 2003, the group says, "provided the platform for mass civilian casualties, war crimes, and a vast boon to corporations seeking to profit from war-making—with almost complete impunity to this day."
    "A new, global anti-war movement is needed more than ever, and central in it must be the leadership of Iraqis in devising a reparations process.""Groups like ISIS emerged from U.S.-fomented sectarianism and came together in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq. Less visible but no less damaging are the ongoing trauma and health issues experienced by those exposed to the fighting, as well as a growing refugee crisis, even as the Muslim Ban impedes many U.S.-created refugees from seeking asylum in the U.S."
    Though President Barack Obama purportedly ended the war in 2011, it did not, in fact, end.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...peace-movement




    The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan

    By Dennis Prager





    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    I think we are even already, just think of the cultural enrichment we brought them.

    Iraq and Kabul before freedomers arrival:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZj0nsj2DyE

    Afghanistan in 1970s, before US taxpyers funded radicalization intervention 1.0



    1980s, Reagan's MAGA era
    USA prints extremist textbooks to radicalize Afghan children






    Pence: Mission of U.S. Military More Important than Mission of U.S. Pastors




    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY661af2CVo

    Iraq/Afghanistan wars disabled 624,000 US troops , Divorces up 42%, Foreclosures up 217%






    Video: CUFI's Pastor John Hagee Praying for more War in the name of Jesus

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    No amount of Rothschild skrill can ever repay the ignoble damage the United States did to the people of Iraq.

    It was a God-damned shame.

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    If our closest democratic ally and human rights champaion Israel made the mistake of paying reparations, pressure on US for making Iraq war reparations would do up sharply:

    Germany gave my family reparations, and Palestinians deserve the same from Israel

    By Jane Hirschmann June 17, 2021
    Jane Hirschmann’s parents fled Germany after Hitler came to power. Later Germany gave her father reparations for a lost business and granted Hirschmann and her children and grandchildren citizenship. “I wonder why the 750,000 Palestinians forced from their homes and land in 1948 when Israel was founded are not entitled to the same treatment my family received after WWII ended. But the war on Palestinians was never over. Instead, Israel continues to this day its policy of ethnic cleansing, as evidenced by the current expulsions in Sheikh Jarrah and other parts of East Jerusalem,” she writes.



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    Give every individual in the world $1 billion in reparations. For anything and everything. Let's go ahead and break the $#@!ing bank, let it all come tumbling down, declare bankruptcy and just begin the rebuilding.

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    Following George Floyd killing by cops of a state that allegedly sent its cops for training to a notorious mideast country (built on a racial ideology and implicated in numeorous war crimes against people of other semitic races), reparations push for racially motivated injustices is making a comeback at UN.
    Somewhat similar social justice calls were made in Canadian social media in recent days about past injustices to injun people in Americas following discovery of childrens mass grave.


    June 28, 2021
    UN rights chief: Reparations needed for people facing racism

    By JAMEY KEATEN
    GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through reparations.

    The report from Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, offers a sweeping look at the roots of centuries of mistreatment faced by Africans and people of African descent, notably from the transatlantic slave trade. It seeks a “transformative” approach to address its continued impact today.
    The report, a year in the making, hopes to build on momentum around the recent, intensified scrutiny worldwide about the blight of racism and its impact on people of African descent as epitomized by the high-profile killings of unarmed Black people in the United States and elsewhere.

    “There is today a momentous opportunity to achieve a turning point for racial equality and justice,” the report said.

    https://apnews.com/article/united-na...4e4ecc3fdbccb4



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    9/11: 20 years later

    Sept. 1, 2021

    Reparations for Iraq



    Basra, Iraq, in May 2003. Photo: Lynsey Addari


    America illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, occupied and destabilized and flattened it, and then never left. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, and millions more have been made refugees or internally displaced persons. The consequences for the population are almost beyond comprehension: After decades of conflict, more than 2 million Iraqis are disabled, while the PTSD is inescapable. Entire generations have been left unable to look at the sky the same way.
    The Iraqi people must be added, alongside the American dead and their families, to the register of 9/11’s victims, after that day’s events were used as a justification for war. The atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison, the bombardment of Fallujah, the attack on civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square by the military contractor Blackwater — these events are a small part of a long list, made exceptional not by the character of their violence but by their outsize impact on the collective psychology. America trained, funded, and commanded Iraqi Interior Ministry special police forces to run a network of torture centers across the nation. Parts of Iraq are now rubble, a ruin-monument to western folly. One hundred military orders were signed into law by the U.S.-backed Coalition Provisional Authority to privatize state-run companies and amend the tax laws to facilitate foreign ownership.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...parations.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Give every individual in the world $1 billion in reparations. For anything and everything. Let's go ahead and break the $#@!ing bank, let it all come tumbling down, declare bankruptcy and just begin the rebuilding.
    Build back better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.3D View Post
    Build back better.




    Yeah bouy! New football stadiums!

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!



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