- "I believe in the end that ... you will comprehend
that the amount of DU [Depleted Uranium] released into the atmosphere since
1991 is far more than my estimate. Whatever you or I think or differ about,
the disaster is worse than we even know ... but that tale will be told
each year, each decade, each century. Humanity has changed the genome of
the entire planet forever." - Leuren Moret
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- (Oklahoma, Red State, "Land of the Free") --
The Russians just recently stopped a weightlifter coming across the border
with about 100 pounds of "highly radioactive depleted uranium."
The guy said he was using it for dumbbells in weightlifting.
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- The American Department of Defense and other government
departments all are unanimous in calling so-called depleted uranium "mildly
radioactive depleted uranium." They like to use it for bombs, shells
and heavy caliber bullets.
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- Highly radioactive, mildly radioactive, moderately radioactive.
- What does it mean? Whom to believe?
- The godless former Commies or the brave Iraq-smashing
Americans?
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- Decide for yourself.
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- Radioactivity is a standard property of the metal uranium,
used by Americans for bombs, shells and bullets, and one gram will always
give off 12,000 "atomic disintegrations" per second.
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- This lasts forever, as far as we are concerned. Think
of the "atomic diserntegrations" as little atomic bullets. The
kind that are only harmful from inside the human body. What do you think?
Does 12,000 per second rank high or low with you? What if it is in your
lung?
Delicate lung cells of 19 year old American troopers and 60-year-old Iraqi
"guerrillas" don't have the ability to "spin" what
is turning them into infection, pus and cancer.
Just so you know, that is 43 million, 200 thousand little bullets per hour.
This nuclear bombardment at the heart of a cell in the lung or the rest
of the body never stops. Of course, the "throwaway soldiers"
will get cancer and die; but, the chicken-hawk Neo-Cons in the Bush Administration
say that is OK! They just don't want to pay for it.
Remember the 100-hour-long First Gulf War? Only an unlucky few were killed.
We Americans used 375 tons of uranium munitions. Out of the one half million,
or so, soldiers in the prime of life in the war, 11,000 are now dead. and
hundreds of thousands are on Medical Disability.
The latest good journalist to "Drink the Government Kool-Aid"
was Bob Evans of the Daily Press in Virginia. Evans used the deceptive
Government term "mildly radioactive" over and over, in his recent
seven-part series on uranium weapons in use by the US Military. In his
effort to be fair, Evans, a respected veteran journalist, never used the
forbidden words "illegal" or "war crimes." The Daily
Press readership includes a large segment of "retired military."
Since uranium is a metal that also catches on fire and burns, the bombs,
shells and bullets burn and vaporize when they hit something hard like
a tank, bunker, or building. Uranium gas and smoke ends up in the nose,
throat and lungs of our kids and friends in the US Military and any unlucky
Iraqi around. Some of the gas also hitches a ride on the desert winds to
the rest of the world, including the American ally, Israel.
This is a real bummer for the American Troopers and the Iraqis. Uranium
by the thousands of tons has been dispersed this way in Iraq during Gulf
War I, the No-Fly Zones era, Gulf War II, the war after the war, and to
this very day. Once the uranium gas and dust is in their lungs and bodies
the soldiers and civilians become radiation poisoning victims and are forever
changed.
There is no way to remove the uranium smoke from the body. It is radioactive.
There is no treatment; there is no cure. This stuff stays dangerous, lethal
even, forever and a day. After all, it is highly radioact ... err, ...
pardon me, "mildly radioactive," ... err ... whatever!
Our victimized soldiers don't have forever, though. With the same absolute
certainty of the Atomic Clock the US Government uses to tell time, the
constant ticking of the "atomic disintegrations" (little bullets)
starts the countdown to death from radiation poisoning for the soldiers
and civilians alike. It's just a matter of the dose of lethal poison they
received. A greater dose equals less time.
It gets worse. Captain Terry Riordon unknowingly brought radiation poisoning
home with him from Iraq to his wife, Susan Riordon. As recounted in the
November, 2004 issue of the mainstream Conde Nast publication Vanity Fair,
Mrs. Riordon was constantly burned by her husband's semen during intercourse.
Seems Terry's semen was turned to a fiery alkali by the radioactive uranium
that settled in his testicles. The happily married couple had no idea what
this new and horrifying complication was in this intensely private part
of their life together. Little did they know the American Department of
Defense had hopped into bed with them with a deadly intent.
With her husband slowly dying of radiation poisoning and in intense pain
herself, Mrs. Riordon resorted to filling condoms with frozen green peas
to use on herself to obtain relief from the internal burning's intense,
excruciating, lasting pain. Other couples do that and other wildly frantic
and imaginative measures seeking relief. The burning can leave blisters
and contamination.
"It hurt [Terry] too. He said it was like forcing it through barbed
wire," Riordon says. "It seemed to burn through condoms; if he
got any on his thighs or his testicles, he was in hell." In a last,
desperate attempt to save their sex life, says Riordon, "I used to
fill condoms with frozen peas and insert them [after sex] with a lubricant."
That, she says, made her pain just about bearable. Perhaps inevitably,
he became impotent. "And that was like our last little intimacy gone."
Children produced from radioactive soldier's couplings have devastating
birth defects; both to war's children born in the United States and in
Iraq. After all, uranium gas is just a dumb radioactive metal; it does
not care one whit about the nationality of the body parts it targets.
In Iraq, women call the doomed pregnancies the "jelly belly."
The world simply calls it "Genocide." That's the purposeful targeting
of a race or ethnic group of people for extermination. That's our red blooded,
By Gawd, All American Policy. Exterminate them! That is one answer to the
question Americans are always indignantly asking "Why do they hate
us so? Haven't we set them free!?!"
Bob Evans, in his series, even inadvertently let a Classified Specification
out of the bag. The 140,000 pound Abrams Main Battle Tank, a primary dispenser
of radioactive, poisonous uranium gas and dust in Iraq, fires its big gun
at a spectacular 2,100 MPH or three times the speed of sound (MACH III.)
The three foot long solid uranium projectiles then vaporize and burn at
temperatures ranging from an estimated 3,000 to 10,000 degrees as they
penetrate their target. Mr. Evans, guru-like, informs us the temperature
is 5,600 degrees.
What is the difference in "highly radioactive in Russia or "mildly
radioactive" in Virginia? Is it the same metal? Yes, it is. Are both
metals radioactive? Yes! Whether they are in Russia or the United States,
yes, they are: at 12,000 little bullets per second, anywhere in the known
universe! Uranium is our own perverse absolute value.
Well, this is kind of a bummer for all US citizens. President Bush and
the US Military have gone and screwed the pooch. Turns out that using uranium
for weapons is, like, kind of a "Big Time" War Crime. Not only
is it a War Crime, it is a War Crime four different ways, according to
famous UN War Crimes and humanitarian lawyer Karen Parker, JD.
Parker stated "My 'four-point' test is especially intelligible: people
understand. "It spreads" (beyond the field of battle); "it
lasts" (can't be turned off when the war ends); "it injures people
in impermissible ways" (as in making an as yet unborn child deformed);
and "it harms the environment".
Ever since we Americans obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan with
nuclear weapons in August of 1945, immediately killing an estimated quarter
of a million people, the rest of the world has taken a really dim view
of actually using nuclear weapons.
Uranium bombs, shells and bullets are just different forms of slow-acting,
stealth nuclear weapons. They are slower than the instant big boom and
flash of Nagasaki type Nuclear Weapons - the atom bomb and hydrogen bomb.
They are the answer to the Administration's dedicated Crusade for the Holy
Grail of a "usable" nuclear weapon.
Time has telescoped from 1945 instantly -- past to present; World War II
is just over, and we used nuclear weapons on civilians. Now we are using
the next generation of nuclear weapons on the hapless guerrillas and civilians
of Iraq. They never had a chance. Not a prayer.
Uranium weapons spread deadly radioactivity that kills and contaminates
forever. Iraq is simply "toast" because of the indiscriminate,
promiscuous and criminal use of millions of pounds of uranium weapons by
our kids and friends in the US Military, at the command of their political
masters. The masters and troopers are war criminals, and we, the U.S. taxpayers,
are accessories to war crimes.
US Military Out of Control - Defies Law
So, what to do? It's all right there, in US Army Regulations, according
to Maj. Doug Rokke, Ph.D. Ret., the former Director of the Pentagon Depleted
Uranium Project. U.S. Army Regulations AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278 require
the Army to "Clean and Treat." The Army is required by US law
to treat all persons affected and all areas contaminated by the radioactive
uranium munitions. There are no ifs, ands, or buts.
The self-claimed right to use war crime weapons carries the with it big
responsibility to clean up after oneself. Refusing to clean up and treat
is purposeful genocide. It is that simple. We are guilty as sin.
Dennie Williams' breakthrough CommonDreams.org article of November 11,
2004 sets the record straight on the US Military's view of using and cleaning
up after illegal uranium munitions. "The Department of Defense 'does
not clean up DU [depleted uranium weapons] once it leaves a U.S. weapons
system such as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and hits an enemy building, or
vehicle', said Melissa Bohan, an Army public affairs official."
The "suits" in the Pentagon can't be anymore clear than that.
They absolutely refuse to treat the people poisoned, including their own
troopers, and refuse to clean up the poisoned radioactive land. The US
Military did the same thing in Vietnam with the chemical Agent Orange,
which was denied and covered up for decades. As one Vietnam War medic says
"Uranium weapons are like Agent Orange on steriods."
Therefore, the situation is this: the political leadership of the U.S.
decided to secretly use thousands of tons of a genocidal weapon, uranium,
in Iraq. Their servants in the US Military are gung-ho to irradiate the
Iraqis and poison their land, forever, with illegal uranium-based war crimes
weapons. The Army refuses to obey their own Regulations, that have the
force of law, to Clean & Treat, in their slavish obedience to the sub-human,
sick, perverted genocidal desires of their politically appointed controllers.
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- What's wrong with this picture?
This is real Nazi Germany stuff, isn't it? Closer to home, it is very similar
to Andrew Jackson's policy of exterminating Native Americans. Citizens
here in the U.S. may not want to know or accept that fact, but that is
the sleight-of-hand dealt to us mere citizens in America in 2005 by our
corporate-owned and sponsored politicians and media.
Denying a fact situation does not make it disappear. The facts, and the
thousands of tons of weaponized uranium oxide gas and dust, just hang in
there. This is impossible for supposedly patriotic "My Country Right
or Wrong - Love It or Leave It" type Americans to explain away.
Uranium is as real as it gets, and it never goes away. As long as there
are congenitally deformed Iraqis left in the world, and until the Iraqis
are finally exterminated by these long-lived genocidal weapons, they will
continue to whisper and croak in whatever voice left to them: "America
Exterminated Me, Punish Them!" and demand justice.
Americans of all political stripes should be enraged to hear of what our
US Military has done to Iraq. It is not OK, and they should feel betrayed
by the Bush Administration, perhaps especially the center-right Americans
responsible for twice electing Bush. (And the results of Both elections
are still disputed.)
It was real Americans some 60 years ago "The Greatest Generation,"
as network news reader Tom Brokaw called them, in his book of the same
name, who with the Russians, Free French, British and others stomped the
fascist war makers in Germany and their Axis ally Japan in World War II.
Now the "World's Only Superpower's" American Army has taken the
place of Hitler's Storm Troopers in ruling the modern world. It is supremely
ironic that their own uranium weapons kill them as well as the "enemy"
civilians, as they set out to control. These unthinking soldiers will ultimately
destroy the world, and that seems to be the desired outcome of Administration's
cult like "Rapture Me" Christofascist radical religious tradition.
In the famous Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, established after World War
II to try Nazi War Criminals and assess their guilt and punishment, the
Chief Prosecutor said of the German people something that applies directly
to Americans today. He speaks knowingly and directly across more than 50
years of time to resolutely instruct American citizens on exactly what
our duty is today, right now:
"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national
obligations of obediencetherefore have the duty to violate domestic laws
to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
- Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal. It is now international
law and by extension, U.S. law. It is our duty as American citizens. The
fascist government controlling the United States and the US Military can
no longer be allowed to exist. The world and international law holds us
all accountable, and the price is dear.
These white-collar criminals must all be impeached and imprisoned for their
war crimes, commensurate with their degree of complicity and guilt. If
the House will not impeach and the Senate will not put them on trial, then,
we have a problem.
We will have to do it ourselves. Additionally, we have to vote out the
co-conspirators in the Senate and the House for refusing to impeach. That
is the law, handed down in 1950 after a disastrous world-wide war. We Americans
must follow the law. It is our sacred duty. As President Bush likes to
say "they [the House and Senate] are either for us or against us."
Can we wait till tomorrow, next week, or, next year to impeach?
In a word, "No!"
Leuren Moret, world famous former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
scientist, said the following in an Email on Valentine's Day, 2005, requesting
hundreds of physicists, scientists, professionals, managers, writers and
others to join in the world-wide effort to stop the current flagrant use
of illegal uranium weapons:
"I believe in the end that ... you will comprehend that the amount
of DU [Depleted Uranium] released into the atmosphere since 1991 is far
more than my estimate. Whatever you or I think or differ about, the disaster
is worse than we even know ... but that tale will be told each year, each
decade, each century. Humanity has changed the genome of the entire planet
forever."
"How can you help us present the disaster in a way that ordinary people
can comprehend? Infant mortality is increasing globally for the first
time in 41 years..."
"This planet is being turned into a death star," Moret added.
The time to act is now. The Bush Administration controls the big media
on this issue. They do not control you. Tell your friends and email this
article everywhere. As U.S. citizens, as human beings, we know what we
should do, and we know that we cannot afford to wait any longer.
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