It's definitely not good news nowadays for any country to be classified a 'Rogue State' by the US-led hegemonic Western Powers, for it will not only cost you billions in cash and economic hardship, but millions of lives as well.
That continues to be the between-the-lines message to the world from US hardliners with their 'you're either with us or against us' rhetoric. A decade ago Iraq was branded a 'rogue state'; today, moderate estimates speak of an Iraqi death toll of 500,000 since the 2003 invasion and civil war.
Lying your way into global power
Iraq is clearly the most famous rogue state, if we are to believe the two Bushes, especially the junior George, who rammed into that country in 2003, all but destroying it, maiming its people and proud 3,000-year-old heritage. All based on an outright lie: the infamous 'weapons of mass destruction' they were accused of hiding, but that were never found.
In those days of hysterical mainstream media warmongering George W., Tony Blair and their henchmen had their way, bombing the country to smithereens. A decade on, we learn from a report just published in the Public Library of Science Medicine Journal that, based on household samplings, an estimated 500,000 men, women and children have been killed since the invasion.
A moderate estimate, since others go significantly higher. Take The Lancet, one of the world's oldest medical journals, which published two peer-reviewed studies, the latest in 2006 putting the figure in excess of 650,000. Or ORB (Opinion Research Business) an independent polling agency in London, which in 2007 published a study estimating total Iraqi war fatalities between 2003 and 2007 at over 1.2 million.
All because Bush, Blair and their allies got it all "wrong" about Saddam's WMD's: "We never found 'em," said George W., who then went on to joke about the whole affair during a White House dinner in March 2004.
Clearly, blatant genocide and war crimes committed by the West's top leaders in broad daylight over which nobody seems to be responsible. No one was ever made accountable; no one ever bothered to apologize to Iraq or to the world.
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I guess they've all been too busy going after and 'smokin' out' other rogue states like Syria, where the civil war against the legal government of Bashar Assad that is being waged by US, UK, French, Saudi and Israeli-backed/trained/financed terrorists (including Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front) has already cost over 120,000 Syrian deaths, mostly civilian.
Then there was Libya in 2011, where interim 'democratic' government estimates speak of as many as 30,000 dead, including the execution of Muammar Gaddafi and many of his family members and government officials. God only knows how many were actually shot, bombed, and lynched like Gaddafi by the NATO-backed 'freedom fighters' there.
Add to this the impossible-to-calculate number of dead, maimed and murdered during the Western Powers'-engineered 'Arab Spring' throughout the Arab World over the past three years, plus the decades-long Palestinian tragedy at the hands of their Israeli-run Concentration Camp Kommandants, and we're talking about many millions of deaths which begin to echo the so, so oft-repeated '6 million' figure.
So be careful, world! Make sure your country's not branded a 'rogue state', because if it is, then you're in for a lot of trouble!
http://rt.com/op-edge/rogue-states-guide-global-powers-723/