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Let's hope so, birdman. I know if I was dying of a terminal illness I
would be looking for weapons and ammo, not a church.
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Oth...cesOfRadioactiveContaminationInIraq-Kelly.htm
Birdman comment: Yes, there will be dire consequences of the
radioactive contamination of Iraq, but there will also be two highly
desirable consequences: First, Israel -- whose partisans are
responsible for the war, and for whose interests the war was in large
measure fought -- is going to be nicely salted and seasoned by all the
Iraqi pollution that cannot but sift its way over to 'that shitty
little country'; and second, the vets who have been poisoned by their
mideast military experience just may feel it is worth their miserable
dying while to put a bullet or two in some of the parties responsible
for their problems before they prematurely depart this terrestrial
sphere.
From the April 2003 Idaho Observer:
Death By Slow Burn:How America Nukes Its Own Troops
What “Support Our Troops” really means
by Amy Worthington
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding
a sign: “Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!” That's exactly what
George Bush has done. America's mega billion dollar war in Iraq is
indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted
uranium (DU) weapons, a “liberation” gift that will keep on giving.
Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored
at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.
Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste
into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid
fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.1
Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.2 The
M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.3 These and British Challenger II
tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which continually irradiate
troops in or near them.4 The A-10 “tank buster” aircraft fires DU
shells at machines and people on the battlefield.5
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal
weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws,
treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to
cause unnecessary suffering.
Support our troops
Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in
Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as
they slowly and painfully succumb to radiation poisoning.
U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead.
Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined
to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney
dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain,
unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and
premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: “As the last Gulf conflict
so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses
of experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure
to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect
repellent and radiation left over from the last war. This is a war even
the victors will lose.”6
DU
When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces
of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of
radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and
emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph
node can devastate the entire immune system according to British
radiation expert Roger Coghill.7
The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield
soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney
failure within days.8 Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled
lethal radioactive dust is not breathing. In the first two weeks of
combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi
real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.9 Millions of DU tank
rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no
place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.
Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of depleted
uranium were used against Iraq in 1991.10 A 1998 report by the U.S.
Agency for Toxic Substances confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms
identical to those claimed by many sick vets with Gulf War Syndrome.11
The Gulf War Veterans Association reports that at least 300,000 Gulf
War I vets have now developed incapacitating illnesses.12 To date,
209,000 vets have filed claims for disability benefits based on
service-connected injuries and illnesses from combat in that war.13
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at Georgetown
University, is a former army medical expert. He told nuclear scientists
in Paris last year that tens of thousands of sick British and American
soldiers are now dying from radiation they encountered during Gulf War
I. He found that 62 percent of sick vets tested have uranium isotopes
in their organs, bones, brains and urine.14 Laboratories in Switzerland
and Finland corroborated his findings. In other studies, some sick vets
were found to be expressing uranium in even their semen. Their sexual
partners often complained of a burning sensation during intercourse,
followed by their own debilitating illnesses.15
Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and birth defects
suffered by the Iraqi people who have endured vicious nuclear
chastisement for years.16 U.S. air attacks against Iraq since 1993 have
undoubtedly employed nuclear munitions. Pictures of grotesquely
deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are overwhelming.17 Like those
born to Gulf War I vets, many babies born to troops now in Iraq will
also be afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage and/or
blood and respiratory disorders.18
Army health physicist Dr. Doug Rokke was dispatched to the Middle East
to salvage DU-contaminated tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger counters
revealed that the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were contaminated with
up to 300 millirems an hour in beta and gamma radiation plus thousands
to millions of counts per minute in alpha radiation. Rokke recently
told the media: “The whole area is still trashed. It is hotter than
heck over there still. This stuff doesn't go away.”19
DU remains “hot” for 4.5 billion years. Radiation expert Dr. Helen
Caldicott confirms that the dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war
zones “will remain effectively radioactive for the rest of time.”20 The
murderous dust storms which ensnared coalition troops during the first
few days of the current invasion will have significant health
consequences.
Rokke and his clean-up team were issued only flimsy dust masks for
their dangerous work. Of the 100 people on Rokke's decontamination
team, 30 have already “dropped dead.” Rokke himself is ill with
radiation damage to lungs and kidneys. He has brain lesions, skin
pustules, chronic fatigue, continual wheezing and painful fibromyalgia.
Rokke warns that anyone exposed to DU should have adequate respiratory
protection and special coveralls to protect their clothing because, he
says, you can't get uranium particles off your clothing.
DU doublespeak
The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is not a problem.
Colonel James Naughton of the U.S. Army Material Command recently told
the BBC that complaints about DU “had no medical basis.”21
The military's own documents belie this. A 1993 Pentagon document
warned that “when soldiers inhale or ingest DU dust they incur a
potential increase in cancer risk.”22
A U.S. Army training manual requires anyone who comes within 25 meters
of DU-contaminated equipment to wear respiratory and skin protection.23
The U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute admitted: “If DU enters
the body, it has the potential to generate significant medical
consequences.”24 The Institute also stated that, if the troops were to
realize what they had been exposed to, “the financial implications of
long-term disability payments and healthcare costs would be
excessive.”25
For pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.
Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU dangers and is
criminally negligent for neglecting medical attention needed by
DU-contaminated vets. He predicts that the numbers of American troops
to be sickened by DU from Gulf War II will be staggering.26 As they
gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn to their graves, the Pentagon
will -- as it did after Gulf War I -- deny that their misery and death
is a result of their tour in Iraq.
Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr. Durakovic's
radiation studies on Gulf War I vets were not popular with U.S.
officials. Dr. Durakovic was reportedly told his life was in danger if
he continued his research. He left the U.S. to continue his research
abroad.27
Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely unaware of how
deadly their battlefield environment is. Gulf War I troops were kept in
ignorance. Soldiers handled DU fragments and some wore these lethal
nuggets around their necks. A DU projectile emits more radiation in
five hours than allowed in an entire year under civilian radiation
exposure standards. “We didn't know any better,” Kris Kornkven told
Nation magazine. “We didn't find out until long after we were home that
there even was such a thing as DU.”28
U.S. vision of a nuclear planet
George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a nuclear war. Shortly
after 9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear
weapons including small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited
to commando warfare in Afghanistan.29 In late September, 2001, Bush and
Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed that the U.S. would use
tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan while Putin would employ
nuclear weapons against the Chechnyans.30
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith
writes in the Village Voice: “Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing
for smashing through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the
force of an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of bang for the
buck, literally two apocalypse bombs in one -- a boosted plutonium
firecracker called the primary and a heavy hydrogen secondary for that
good old-fashioned H-bomb fireball.”31
Drought-stricken Afghanistan's underground water supply is now
contaminated by these nuclear weapons.32 Experts with the Uranium
Medical Research Center report that urine samples of Afghanis show the
highest level of uranium ever recorded in a civilian population.
Afghani soldiers and civilians are reported to have died after
suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory problems, internal
bleeding and other symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Dead
birds still perched in trees are found partially melted with blood
oozing from their mouths.33
Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, is a puppet installed by
Washington, D.C. Under the protection of American soldiers, Karzai's
regime is setting a new record for opium production. Both UN and U.S.
reports confirm that the huge Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes
Afghanistan the world's leading opium producer.34 Thanks to nuclear
weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the Bush-Cheney narcotics
industry.35
ABC News asserts that keeping the “peace” in Afghanistan will require
decades of allied occupation.36 For years to come, “peacekeepers” will
be eating, drinking and breathing the “hot” carcinogenic pollution they
have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for organized crime.
As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill Clinton
laundered $multi-millions in cocaine profits for then vice-president
George Bush Sr.37 As a partner in the Bush family's notorious crime
machine, President Clinton committed U.S. troops to NATO's campaign in
the Balkans, a prime heroin production and transshipment area. DOD's
campaign to control and reorganize the drug trade there for the Bush
mafia was yet another nuclear project.
Between 1995-2000, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and
shells across the Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and
Kosovo. As DU munitions were slammed into chemical plants, the
environment became hideously toxic, also endangering the peoples of
Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
By 1999, UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU had
caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with
agriculture, livestock and air water, and public health all profoundly
damaged.38
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium
in their urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that
hundreds of Bosnians have died of cancer from NATO's DU bombardment.40
Many NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans now suffer ill health. Their
leukemias, cancers and other maladies are dubbed the “Balkans
Syndrome.” Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used in Balkans
campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal cancer.41
U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for criminal
militarism gone mad. DOD is a pollution monster. The General Accounting
Office (GAO) found 9,181 dangerous military sites in USA that will
require $billions to rehabilitate. The GAO reports that DOD has been
both slothful and deceitful in its clean-up obligations.42
The Pentagon is pressing Congress to exempt it from all environmental
laws so that it may pollute and poison free from liability.43
The Navy used prime fishing grounds off the coast of Washington state
to test fire DU ammunition. In January, Washington State Rep. Jim
McDermott chastised the Navy: “On one hand you have required soldiers
to have DU safety training and to wear protective gear when handling
DU...and submarines must stay clear of DU-contaminated waters. These
policies indicate there is cause for concern....On the other hand the
Department of Defense has repeatedly denied that DU poses any danger
whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons of DU
equipment in the soil in foreign countries, and there appears to be no
remorse about leaving it in the waters of your own country.”44
DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in Indiana, Florida,
New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland and Puerto Rico. After the Navy
tested DU weaponry on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third of
the island's population developed serious illness. Many people show
high levels of uranium in their bodies. Hundreds have filed a class
action suit against the Navy for $100 million, claiming DU
contamination has caused widespread cancers.45
The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada, is a quagmire
of 26 toxic waste sites. It is also a target practice zone for DU bombs
and missiles. Area residents report bizarre illnesses, including 17
children who have contracted leukemia within five years. A survey of
groundwater in the Fallon area showed nearly half of area wells are
contaminated with radioactive materials.46
The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly at three
nuclear plants in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where workers handling
uranium contaminated with plutonium have suffered for decades with
cancers and debilitating maladies similar to Gulf War Syndrome.47
Prelude to a perpetual cycle of destruction, reconstruction
Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by his
administration's devious 9-11 project, President Bush asserts that the
U.S. has the right to attack any nation it deems a potential threat. He
told West Point in 2002, “If we wait for threats to fully materialize,
we will have waited too long.”48
It is certain that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are
lined up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's Halliburton Corp.
and the Bush family's Carlyle Group are profiteers in U.S. defense
contracts, so endless war is just good business.49
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will create special
nuclear weapons for use on North Korea's underground nuclear
facilities.50 Next August, U.S. war makers will meet to consolidate
plans for a new generation of “mini,” “micro” and “tiny” nuclear bombs
and bunker busters. These will be added to the U.S. arsenal perhaps for
use against non-nuclear third-world nations such as Iran, Syria,
Lebanon.51
The solution?
Americans must stop electing ruthless criminals to rule this nation. We
must convince fellow citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein are
made in the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits. Saddam
was placed in power by the CIA.52 For years U.S. government agencies,
under auspices of George Bush Sr., supplied him with chemical and
biological weapons.53 Our national nuclear laboratories, along with
Unisys, Dupont and Hewlett-Packard, sold Saddam materials for his
nuclear program.54 Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton in the late 90s
when its subsidiaries signed $73 million in new contracts to further
supply Saddam.55 The wicked villain of Iraq was nurtured for decades as
a cash-cow by U.S. military-industrial piranhas.
If America truly supports its troops, it must stop sending them into
nuclear holocaust for the enrichment of thugs. Time is running out. If
the DU-maniacs at the Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms peddlers
are not harnessed, America will have no able-bodied fighting forces
left. All people of the earth will become grossly ill, hideously
deformed and will die prematurely. We must succeed in the critical
imperative to face reality and act decisively. Should we fail, there
will be no place to hide from the slow burn of Bush-Cheney's merciless
nuclear orgies yet to come -- or from the inevitable nuclear
retaliation these orgies will surely breed.
Endnotes
1. “DOD Launches Depleted Uranium Training,” Linda Kozaryn, American
Forces Press Service, 8-13-99.
2. “Nukes of the Gulf War,”John Shirley, Zess@aol.com See this article
in archives at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/.
3. BBC News, “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” March 18, 2003; U.S. General
Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: “Early Performance
Assessment of Bradley and Abrams,” 1-2-92.
4. “Nukes of the Gulf War,” op.cit.
5. Ibid.
6. “Invading Hiroshima,” William Thomas, 2-4-2003,
http://www.willthomas.net/.
7. “US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy,” Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also
“Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted
Uranium,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, 12-31-02.
8. “Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days,” Rob Edwards, New
Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also “Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle,” Rob
Edwards, New Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99.
9. “Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks,” David Rennie in Washington,
Telegraph Group Limited, 1-4-03, news.telegraph.co.uk.
10. “Going Nuclear in Iraq -- DU Cancers Mount Daily,” Ramzi Kysia,
CounterPunch.org, 12-31-01.
11. ”Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,” Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01, http://www.guardianlimited.co.uk/.
12. “Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets,” Ellen Tomson, Pioneer
Press, http://www.pioneerplanet.com/. See also American Gulf War
Veterans Association at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/.
13. “2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability: 209,000 Make VA
Claims,” World Net Daily, 1-28-03, WorldNetDaily.com.
14. “Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, “New York Times, 1-29-01;
“Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning,” Jonathon
Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.
15. “Catastrophe -- Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated Partners With DU,” The
Halifax Herald Limited, Clare Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is
available in archives at http://www.rense.com/.
16. “Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,”
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02; “US Depleted Uranium Yields
Chamber of Horrors in Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent
(London) 12-4-01.
17. “The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf War Region
with Special References to Iraq,” Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms Control
Research Centre, May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth Defects in
Iraq at www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html.
18. “The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our Country Abandoned
Them?,” Life Magazine, November 1995; “Birth Defects Killing Gulf War
Babies,” Los Angeles Times, 11-14-94; “Depleted Uranium -- The
Lingering Poison,” Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 6-7-99.
19. “Depleted Uranium -- A Killer Disaster,” Travis Dunn, Disaster
News.net, 12-29-02.
20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.
21. “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” BBC News, 3-18-03.
22. “Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,” Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01.
23. “Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,”
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02.
24. “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” BBC News, 3-18-03.
25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental
Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report,
June 1995.
26. “Pentagon -- Depleted Uranium No Health Risk,” Dr. Doug Rokke,
3-15-03; also “The Terrible, Tragic Toll of Depleted Uranium,” Address
by Dr. Rokke before congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.,12-30-02;
also “Gulf War Casualties,” Dr. Doug Rokke,
http://www.traprockpeace.org/, 9-30-02.
27.”Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning,” Sunday Times
(UK), Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.
28. “The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An Investigative Report,” Bill
Mesler, The Nation, 5-28-99, see
www.thenation.com/issue/961021/1021mesl.htm.
29. “Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan,” World Net Daily, 10-7-01.
30. Ibid.
31. “The B-61 Bomb -- The Burrowing Nuke” George Smith,Village
Voice.com 12-29-02.; also “Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs --
Nowhere to Hide,” Kennedy Grey, Wired.com, 10-9-01.
32.”Perpetual Death From America,” Mohammed Daud Miraki,
Afghan-American Interviews, 2-24-03; also “Dying of Thirst,” Fred
Pearce, New Scientist, 11-17-2001.
33. Ibid.
34. “Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer,” Agence
France-Presse, 3-01-03. This article is at http://www.copvcia.com/.;
also “Opium Trade Flourishing In the 'New Afghanistan,'” Reuters,
3-3-03.
35. “The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire,” Michael C. Ruppert, Nexus Magazine,
February-March 2000; The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co., revised
edition due May 2003; Drugging of America, Rodney Stich, Diablo Western
Press, 1999; “Blood for Oil, Drugs for Arms,” Bob Djurdjevic, Truth In
Media, April 2000, http://www.truthinmedia.org/
36. ABC News, February 27, 2003.
37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and John
Cummings, S.P.I. Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles and The Mena
Cover-up, Citizens for Honest Government, 1996; “The Crimes of Mena,
Grey Money,” Ozark Gazette, 1995, http://www.copvcia.com/.)
38. “Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says a UN Report,” Bob
Djurdjevic, 7-4-99, http://www.truthinmedia.org/. This report was
submitted to the UN Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, “New
Depleted Uranium Study Shows Clear Damage,” BBC News,8-28-99; also
“NATO Issued Warning About Toxic Ammo,” Associated Press, 01-08-01.
39. CounterPunch.org, 12-28-01.
40. “Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing -- Doctor,” Reuters,
1-13-01.
41.”Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer Epidemic,” BBC News,
7-30-99.
42. “Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous,” Associated Press, 9-24-02;
also Old US Weapons Called Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-02.
43. “Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea,” Andrew
Gumbel in L.A., 3-13-03, Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
44. “Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish Areas,” Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 1-11-03; Letter from Rep. McDermott to Department
of the Navy: see “Navy Fired DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of
Washington,” 1-20-03, rense.com.
45.”Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On 'Enchanted
Island,'” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, 2-5-01; also “Navy Shells With
Depleted Uranium Fired in Puerto Rico,” Fox News Online, 5-28-99.
46. “The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy Bombing,” Jeffrey St.
Clair, CounterPunch.org, 8-10-02.
47. “DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal ****tail of Nuclear
Waste,” Jonathon Carr-Brown, http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/, 1-22-01.
48. “Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent,” Helen Thomas, Hearst
Newspapers, 3-20-03.
49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House, 2003 (New
York Times best seller.); also “The Best Enemies Money Can Buy, From
Hitler to Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden -- Insider Connections and
the Bush Family's Partnership With Killers of Americans;” Mike Ruppert,
From the Wilderness, 10-10-01; also “Bush Sr.'s Carlyle Group Gets Fat
on War and Conflict,” Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK), 3-25-03; also
“Halliburton Wins Contract for Iraq Oil Firefighting, Reuters, 3-7-03;
also “Cashing In-Fortunes in Profits Await Bush Circle After Iraq War,
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-02; also “War Could Be Big
Business for Halliburton,” Reuters, 3-23-03.
50. “Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger,” Washington Post, March 10, 2003.
51. “Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking Office,” Neil Mackay,
The Sunday Herald (UK) 3-27-03; also “US Mini-Nukes Alarm Scientists,”
The Guardian (UK) 4-18-01; also “US Nuclear First-Strike Plan -- It
Keeps Getting Scarier, Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence
Review, 2-24-03.
52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the Baath Party and
installed Hussein as Iraqi dictator in 1968.
53. “United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the
Health of Persian Gulf War Veterans,” Senate Committee on Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs, 1992, 1994; “U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq
Buildup,” Washington Post, 12-30-02.
54. “US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped Iraq Build Its WMD,”
Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Financial Times, 12-19-02; “Full List of US
Weapons Suppliers To Iraq,” Anu de Monterice, coachanu@earthlink.net,
12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op.cit.
would be looking for weapons and ammo, not a church.
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Oth...cesOfRadioactiveContaminationInIraq-Kelly.htm
Birdman comment: Yes, there will be dire consequences of the
radioactive contamination of Iraq, but there will also be two highly
desirable consequences: First, Israel -- whose partisans are
responsible for the war, and for whose interests the war was in large
measure fought -- is going to be nicely salted and seasoned by all the
Iraqi pollution that cannot but sift its way over to 'that shitty
little country'; and second, the vets who have been poisoned by their
mideast military experience just may feel it is worth their miserable
dying while to put a bullet or two in some of the parties responsible
for their problems before they prematurely depart this terrestrial
sphere.
From the April 2003 Idaho Observer:
Death By Slow Burn:How America Nukes Its Own Troops
What “Support Our Troops” really means
by Amy Worthington
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding
a sign: “Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!” That's exactly what
George Bush has done. America's mega billion dollar war in Iraq is
indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted
uranium (DU) weapons, a “liberation” gift that will keep on giving.
Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored
at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.
Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste
into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid
fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.1
Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.2 The
M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.3 These and British Challenger II
tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which continually irradiate
troops in or near them.4 The A-10 “tank buster” aircraft fires DU
shells at machines and people on the battlefield.5
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal
weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws,
treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to
cause unnecessary suffering.
Support our troops
Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in
Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as
they slowly and painfully succumb to radiation poisoning.
U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead.
Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined
to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney
dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain,
unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and
premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: “As the last Gulf conflict
so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses
of experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure
to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect
repellent and radiation left over from the last war. This is a war even
the victors will lose.”6
DU
When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces
of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of
radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and
emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph
node can devastate the entire immune system according to British
radiation expert Roger Coghill.7
The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield
soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney
failure within days.8 Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled
lethal radioactive dust is not breathing. In the first two weeks of
combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi
real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.9 Millions of DU tank
rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no
place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.
Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of depleted
uranium were used against Iraq in 1991.10 A 1998 report by the U.S.
Agency for Toxic Substances confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms
identical to those claimed by many sick vets with Gulf War Syndrome.11
The Gulf War Veterans Association reports that at least 300,000 Gulf
War I vets have now developed incapacitating illnesses.12 To date,
209,000 vets have filed claims for disability benefits based on
service-connected injuries and illnesses from combat in that war.13
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at Georgetown
University, is a former army medical expert. He told nuclear scientists
in Paris last year that tens of thousands of sick British and American
soldiers are now dying from radiation they encountered during Gulf War
I. He found that 62 percent of sick vets tested have uranium isotopes
in their organs, bones, brains and urine.14 Laboratories in Switzerland
and Finland corroborated his findings. In other studies, some sick vets
were found to be expressing uranium in even their semen. Their sexual
partners often complained of a burning sensation during intercourse,
followed by their own debilitating illnesses.15
Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and birth defects
suffered by the Iraqi people who have endured vicious nuclear
chastisement for years.16 U.S. air attacks against Iraq since 1993 have
undoubtedly employed nuclear munitions. Pictures of grotesquely
deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are overwhelming.17 Like those
born to Gulf War I vets, many babies born to troops now in Iraq will
also be afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage and/or
blood and respiratory disorders.18
Army health physicist Dr. Doug Rokke was dispatched to the Middle East
to salvage DU-contaminated tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger counters
revealed that the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were contaminated with
up to 300 millirems an hour in beta and gamma radiation plus thousands
to millions of counts per minute in alpha radiation. Rokke recently
told the media: “The whole area is still trashed. It is hotter than
heck over there still. This stuff doesn't go away.”19
DU remains “hot” for 4.5 billion years. Radiation expert Dr. Helen
Caldicott confirms that the dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war
zones “will remain effectively radioactive for the rest of time.”20 The
murderous dust storms which ensnared coalition troops during the first
few days of the current invasion will have significant health
consequences.
Rokke and his clean-up team were issued only flimsy dust masks for
their dangerous work. Of the 100 people on Rokke's decontamination
team, 30 have already “dropped dead.” Rokke himself is ill with
radiation damage to lungs and kidneys. He has brain lesions, skin
pustules, chronic fatigue, continual wheezing and painful fibromyalgia.
Rokke warns that anyone exposed to DU should have adequate respiratory
protection and special coveralls to protect their clothing because, he
says, you can't get uranium particles off your clothing.
DU doublespeak
The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is not a problem.
Colonel James Naughton of the U.S. Army Material Command recently told
the BBC that complaints about DU “had no medical basis.”21
The military's own documents belie this. A 1993 Pentagon document
warned that “when soldiers inhale or ingest DU dust they incur a
potential increase in cancer risk.”22
A U.S. Army training manual requires anyone who comes within 25 meters
of DU-contaminated equipment to wear respiratory and skin protection.23
The U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute admitted: “If DU enters
the body, it has the potential to generate significant medical
consequences.”24 The Institute also stated that, if the troops were to
realize what they had been exposed to, “the financial implications of
long-term disability payments and healthcare costs would be
excessive.”25
For pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.
Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU dangers and is
criminally negligent for neglecting medical attention needed by
DU-contaminated vets. He predicts that the numbers of American troops
to be sickened by DU from Gulf War II will be staggering.26 As they
gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn to their graves, the Pentagon
will -- as it did after Gulf War I -- deny that their misery and death
is a result of their tour in Iraq.
Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr. Durakovic's
radiation studies on Gulf War I vets were not popular with U.S.
officials. Dr. Durakovic was reportedly told his life was in danger if
he continued his research. He left the U.S. to continue his research
abroad.27
Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely unaware of how
deadly their battlefield environment is. Gulf War I troops were kept in
ignorance. Soldiers handled DU fragments and some wore these lethal
nuggets around their necks. A DU projectile emits more radiation in
five hours than allowed in an entire year under civilian radiation
exposure standards. “We didn't know any better,” Kris Kornkven told
Nation magazine. “We didn't find out until long after we were home that
there even was such a thing as DU.”28
U.S. vision of a nuclear planet
George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a nuclear war. Shortly
after 9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear
weapons including small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited
to commando warfare in Afghanistan.29 In late September, 2001, Bush and
Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed that the U.S. would use
tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan while Putin would employ
nuclear weapons against the Chechnyans.30
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith
writes in the Village Voice: “Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing
for smashing through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the
force of an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of bang for the
buck, literally two apocalypse bombs in one -- a boosted plutonium
firecracker called the primary and a heavy hydrogen secondary for that
good old-fashioned H-bomb fireball.”31
Drought-stricken Afghanistan's underground water supply is now
contaminated by these nuclear weapons.32 Experts with the Uranium
Medical Research Center report that urine samples of Afghanis show the
highest level of uranium ever recorded in a civilian population.
Afghani soldiers and civilians are reported to have died after
suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory problems, internal
bleeding and other symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Dead
birds still perched in trees are found partially melted with blood
oozing from their mouths.33
Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, is a puppet installed by
Washington, D.C. Under the protection of American soldiers, Karzai's
regime is setting a new record for opium production. Both UN and U.S.
reports confirm that the huge Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes
Afghanistan the world's leading opium producer.34 Thanks to nuclear
weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the Bush-Cheney narcotics
industry.35
ABC News asserts that keeping the “peace” in Afghanistan will require
decades of allied occupation.36 For years to come, “peacekeepers” will
be eating, drinking and breathing the “hot” carcinogenic pollution they
have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for organized crime.
As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill Clinton
laundered $multi-millions in cocaine profits for then vice-president
George Bush Sr.37 As a partner in the Bush family's notorious crime
machine, President Clinton committed U.S. troops to NATO's campaign in
the Balkans, a prime heroin production and transshipment area. DOD's
campaign to control and reorganize the drug trade there for the Bush
mafia was yet another nuclear project.
Between 1995-2000, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and
shells across the Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and
Kosovo. As DU munitions were slammed into chemical plants, the
environment became hideously toxic, also endangering the peoples of
Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
By 1999, UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU had
caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with
agriculture, livestock and air water, and public health all profoundly
damaged.38
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium
in their urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that
hundreds of Bosnians have died of cancer from NATO's DU bombardment.40
Many NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans now suffer ill health. Their
leukemias, cancers and other maladies are dubbed the “Balkans
Syndrome.” Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used in Balkans
campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal cancer.41
U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for criminal
militarism gone mad. DOD is a pollution monster. The General Accounting
Office (GAO) found 9,181 dangerous military sites in USA that will
require $billions to rehabilitate. The GAO reports that DOD has been
both slothful and deceitful in its clean-up obligations.42
The Pentagon is pressing Congress to exempt it from all environmental
laws so that it may pollute and poison free from liability.43
The Navy used prime fishing grounds off the coast of Washington state
to test fire DU ammunition. In January, Washington State Rep. Jim
McDermott chastised the Navy: “On one hand you have required soldiers
to have DU safety training and to wear protective gear when handling
DU...and submarines must stay clear of DU-contaminated waters. These
policies indicate there is cause for concern....On the other hand the
Department of Defense has repeatedly denied that DU poses any danger
whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons of DU
equipment in the soil in foreign countries, and there appears to be no
remorse about leaving it in the waters of your own country.”44
DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in Indiana, Florida,
New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland and Puerto Rico. After the Navy
tested DU weaponry on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third of
the island's population developed serious illness. Many people show
high levels of uranium in their bodies. Hundreds have filed a class
action suit against the Navy for $100 million, claiming DU
contamination has caused widespread cancers.45
The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada, is a quagmire
of 26 toxic waste sites. It is also a target practice zone for DU bombs
and missiles. Area residents report bizarre illnesses, including 17
children who have contracted leukemia within five years. A survey of
groundwater in the Fallon area showed nearly half of area wells are
contaminated with radioactive materials.46
The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly at three
nuclear plants in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where workers handling
uranium contaminated with plutonium have suffered for decades with
cancers and debilitating maladies similar to Gulf War Syndrome.47
Prelude to a perpetual cycle of destruction, reconstruction
Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by his
administration's devious 9-11 project, President Bush asserts that the
U.S. has the right to attack any nation it deems a potential threat. He
told West Point in 2002, “If we wait for threats to fully materialize,
we will have waited too long.”48
It is certain that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are
lined up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's Halliburton Corp.
and the Bush family's Carlyle Group are profiteers in U.S. defense
contracts, so endless war is just good business.49
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will create special
nuclear weapons for use on North Korea's underground nuclear
facilities.50 Next August, U.S. war makers will meet to consolidate
plans for a new generation of “mini,” “micro” and “tiny” nuclear bombs
and bunker busters. These will be added to the U.S. arsenal perhaps for
use against non-nuclear third-world nations such as Iran, Syria,
Lebanon.51
The solution?
Americans must stop electing ruthless criminals to rule this nation. We
must convince fellow citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein are
made in the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits. Saddam
was placed in power by the CIA.52 For years U.S. government agencies,
under auspices of George Bush Sr., supplied him with chemical and
biological weapons.53 Our national nuclear laboratories, along with
Unisys, Dupont and Hewlett-Packard, sold Saddam materials for his
nuclear program.54 Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton in the late 90s
when its subsidiaries signed $73 million in new contracts to further
supply Saddam.55 The wicked villain of Iraq was nurtured for decades as
a cash-cow by U.S. military-industrial piranhas.
If America truly supports its troops, it must stop sending them into
nuclear holocaust for the enrichment of thugs. Time is running out. If
the DU-maniacs at the Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms peddlers
are not harnessed, America will have no able-bodied fighting forces
left. All people of the earth will become grossly ill, hideously
deformed and will die prematurely. We must succeed in the critical
imperative to face reality and act decisively. Should we fail, there
will be no place to hide from the slow burn of Bush-Cheney's merciless
nuclear orgies yet to come -- or from the inevitable nuclear
retaliation these orgies will surely breed.
Endnotes
1. “DOD Launches Depleted Uranium Training,” Linda Kozaryn, American
Forces Press Service, 8-13-99.
2. “Nukes of the Gulf War,”John Shirley, Zess@aol.com See this article
in archives at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/.
3. BBC News, “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” March 18, 2003; U.S. General
Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: “Early Performance
Assessment of Bradley and Abrams,” 1-2-92.
4. “Nukes of the Gulf War,” op.cit.
5. Ibid.
6. “Invading Hiroshima,” William Thomas, 2-4-2003,
http://www.willthomas.net/.
7. “US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy,” Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also
“Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted
Uranium,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, 12-31-02.
8. “Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days,” Rob Edwards, New
Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also “Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle,” Rob
Edwards, New Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99.
9. “Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks,” David Rennie in Washington,
Telegraph Group Limited, 1-4-03, news.telegraph.co.uk.
10. “Going Nuclear in Iraq -- DU Cancers Mount Daily,” Ramzi Kysia,
CounterPunch.org, 12-31-01.
11. ”Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,” Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01, http://www.guardianlimited.co.uk/.
12. “Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets,” Ellen Tomson, Pioneer
Press, http://www.pioneerplanet.com/. See also American Gulf War
Veterans Association at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/.
13. “2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability: 209,000 Make VA
Claims,” World Net Daily, 1-28-03, WorldNetDaily.com.
14. “Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, “New York Times, 1-29-01;
“Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning,” Jonathon
Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.
15. “Catastrophe -- Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated Partners With DU,” The
Halifax Herald Limited, Clare Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is
available in archives at http://www.rense.com/.
16. “Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,”
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02; “US Depleted Uranium Yields
Chamber of Horrors in Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent
(London) 12-4-01.
17. “The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf War Region
with Special References to Iraq,” Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms Control
Research Centre, May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth Defects in
Iraq at www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html.
18. “The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our Country Abandoned
Them?,” Life Magazine, November 1995; “Birth Defects Killing Gulf War
Babies,” Los Angeles Times, 11-14-94; “Depleted Uranium -- The
Lingering Poison,” Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 6-7-99.
19. “Depleted Uranium -- A Killer Disaster,” Travis Dunn, Disaster
News.net, 12-29-02.
20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.
21. “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” BBC News, 3-18-03.
22. “Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,” Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01.
23. “Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,”
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02.
24. “US To Use Depleted Uranium,” BBC News, 3-18-03.
25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental
Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report,
June 1995.
26. “Pentagon -- Depleted Uranium No Health Risk,” Dr. Doug Rokke,
3-15-03; also “The Terrible, Tragic Toll of Depleted Uranium,” Address
by Dr. Rokke before congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.,12-30-02;
also “Gulf War Casualties,” Dr. Doug Rokke,
http://www.traprockpeace.org/, 9-30-02.
27.”Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning,” Sunday Times
(UK), Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.
28. “The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An Investigative Report,” Bill
Mesler, The Nation, 5-28-99, see
www.thenation.com/issue/961021/1021mesl.htm.
29. “Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan,” World Net Daily, 10-7-01.
30. Ibid.
31. “The B-61 Bomb -- The Burrowing Nuke” George Smith,Village
Voice.com 12-29-02.; also “Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs --
Nowhere to Hide,” Kennedy Grey, Wired.com, 10-9-01.
32.”Perpetual Death From America,” Mohammed Daud Miraki,
Afghan-American Interviews, 2-24-03; also “Dying of Thirst,” Fred
Pearce, New Scientist, 11-17-2001.
33. Ibid.
34. “Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer,” Agence
France-Presse, 3-01-03. This article is at http://www.copvcia.com/.;
also “Opium Trade Flourishing In the 'New Afghanistan,'” Reuters,
3-3-03.
35. “The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire,” Michael C. Ruppert, Nexus Magazine,
February-March 2000; The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co., revised
edition due May 2003; Drugging of America, Rodney Stich, Diablo Western
Press, 1999; “Blood for Oil, Drugs for Arms,” Bob Djurdjevic, Truth In
Media, April 2000, http://www.truthinmedia.org/
36. ABC News, February 27, 2003.
37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and John
Cummings, S.P.I. Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles and The Mena
Cover-up, Citizens for Honest Government, 1996; “The Crimes of Mena,
Grey Money,” Ozark Gazette, 1995, http://www.copvcia.com/.)
38. “Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says a UN Report,” Bob
Djurdjevic, 7-4-99, http://www.truthinmedia.org/. This report was
submitted to the UN Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, “New
Depleted Uranium Study Shows Clear Damage,” BBC News,8-28-99; also
“NATO Issued Warning About Toxic Ammo,” Associated Press, 01-08-01.
39. CounterPunch.org, 12-28-01.
40. “Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing -- Doctor,” Reuters,
1-13-01.
41.”Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer Epidemic,” BBC News,
7-30-99.
42. “Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous,” Associated Press, 9-24-02;
also Old US Weapons Called Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-02.
43. “Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea,” Andrew
Gumbel in L.A., 3-13-03, Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
44. “Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish Areas,” Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 1-11-03; Letter from Rep. McDermott to Department
of the Navy: see “Navy Fired DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of
Washington,” 1-20-03, rense.com.
45.”Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On 'Enchanted
Island,'” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, 2-5-01; also “Navy Shells With
Depleted Uranium Fired in Puerto Rico,” Fox News Online, 5-28-99.
46. “The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy Bombing,” Jeffrey St.
Clair, CounterPunch.org, 8-10-02.
47. “DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal ****tail of Nuclear
Waste,” Jonathon Carr-Brown, http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/, 1-22-01.
48. “Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent,” Helen Thomas, Hearst
Newspapers, 3-20-03.
49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House, 2003 (New
York Times best seller.); also “The Best Enemies Money Can Buy, From
Hitler to Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden -- Insider Connections and
the Bush Family's Partnership With Killers of Americans;” Mike Ruppert,
From the Wilderness, 10-10-01; also “Bush Sr.'s Carlyle Group Gets Fat
on War and Conflict,” Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK), 3-25-03; also
“Halliburton Wins Contract for Iraq Oil Firefighting, Reuters, 3-7-03;
also “Cashing In-Fortunes in Profits Await Bush Circle After Iraq War,
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-02; also “War Could Be Big
Business for Halliburton,” Reuters, 3-23-03.
50. “Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger,” Washington Post, March 10, 2003.
51. “Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking Office,” Neil Mackay,
The Sunday Herald (UK) 3-27-03; also “US Mini-Nukes Alarm Scientists,”
The Guardian (UK) 4-18-01; also “US Nuclear First-Strike Plan -- It
Keeps Getting Scarier, Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence
Review, 2-24-03.
52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the Baath Party and
installed Hussein as Iraqi dictator in 1968.
53. “United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the
Health of Persian Gulf War Veterans,” Senate Committee on Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs, 1992, 1994; “U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq
Buildup,” Washington Post, 12-30-02.
54. “US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped Iraq Build Its WMD,”
Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Financial Times, 12-19-02; “Full List of US
Weapons Suppliers To Iraq,” Anu de Monterice, coachanu@earthlink.net,
12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op.cit.
