- What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack
on Iran's nuclear energy sites?
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- At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical
scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis: [VIDEO]
of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation
release from such an attack.
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- Dr. Caldicott described the catastrophic deaths that
would result from a conventional attack on nuclear facilities and the long-term
increase in cancer deaths from the radiation release.
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- Should the attack be made with nuclear weapons--as some
of Bush's criminally insane neoconservative advisers advocate--the populations
of many countries would suffer for generations from radioactive particles
in air, water, and food chains. Deaths would number in the many millions.
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- Such an attack justified in the name of "American
security" and "American hegemony" would constitute the rawest
form of evil the world has ever seen, far surpassing in evil the atrocities
of the Nazi and Communist regimes.
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- Dr. Caldicott detailed the horrible long-term consequences
for the Iraqi population from the US military's current use of depleted
uranium in explosive ammunition used in Iraq. Caldicott explained that
"depleted" does not mean depleted of radiation. She explained
that each time such ammunition is used, radioactive particles are released
in the air and are absorbed into people's lungs. We are yet to see the
horrific civilian casualty rate of the American invasion--or the true casualty
rate among US troops.
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- Dr. Caldicott expressed bewilderment why the rest of
the world does not stand up to the US and force a halt to its crimes against
humanity.
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- One man heard her--Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.
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- On February 10 at the 43rd Munich Security Conference,
President Putin told the world's assembled political leaders that the US
was trying to establish a "uni-polar world," which he defined
as "one single center of power, one single center of force and one
single master."
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- This goal, Putin said, was a "formula for disaster."
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- "The United States," Putin said, truthfully,
"has overstepped its borders in all spheres" and "has imposed
itself on other states."
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- The Russian leader declared: "We see no kind of
restraint--a hyper-inflated use of force."
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- To avoid catastrophe, Putin said a reconsideration of
the entire existing architecture of global security was necessary.
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- Putin's words of truth fell on many deaf ears. US Senator
John McCain, America's most idiotic and dangerous "leader" after
Bush and Cheney, equated Putin's legitimate criticism of the US with "confrontation."
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- America's new puppets--the states of central and Eastern
Europe and the secretary general of NATO, no longer a treaty for the defense
of Europe but a military force enlisted in America's quest for empire--lined
up with McCain's argument that Russia was in fundamental conflict "with
the core values of Euro-Atlantic democracies."
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- Even the BBC's defense and security correspondent, Rob
Watson, jumped on the American propaganda bandwagon, tagging Putin's speech
a revival of the cold war.
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- No delegate at the security conference stood up to state
the obvious fact that it is not Russia that is invading countries under
pretexts as false as Hitler's and setting up weapons systems on foreign
soil in order to achieve military hegemony.
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- The reception given to Putin's words made it clear to
Russia, China, and every country not bribed, threatened or purchased into
participation in America's drive for world hegemony that the US has no
interest whatsoever in peace. Intelligent people realize that American
claims to be a moral and democratic force are mere pretense behind which
hides a policy of military aggression.
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- The US, Putin said, has gone "from one conflict
to another without achieving a fully-fledged solution to any of them."
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- Putin has repeatedly stressed Russia's peaceful intentions
and desire to focus on its economy and to avoid a new arms race. In his
speech on the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, Putin
said: "I am convinced that there is no alternative to our friendship
and our fraternity. With our closest neighbors and all countries of the
world, Russia is prepared to build a kind of relationship which is not
only based on lessons of the past but is also directed into a shared future."
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- In his 2006 state of the nation speech, Putin noted that
America's military budget is 25 times larger than Russia's. He compared
the Bush Regime to a wolf who eats whom he wants without listening. Putin
is being demonized by US propagandists, because he insists upon Russia
being a politically and economically independent state.
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- The Bush Regime has taken the US outside the boundaries
of international law and is acting unilaterally, falsely declaring American
military aggression to be "defensive" and in the interests of
peace. Much of the world realizes the hypocrisy and danger in the Bush
Regime's justification of the unbridled use of US military power, but no
countries except other nuclear powers can challenge American aggression,
and then only at the risk of all life on earth.
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- The solution is nonmilitary challenge.
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- The Bush Regime's ability to wage war is dependent upon
foreign financing. The Regime's wars are financed with red ink, which means
the hundreds of billions of dollars must be borrowed. As American consumers
are spending more than they earn on consumption, the money cannot be borrowed
from Americans.
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- The US is totally dependent upon foreigners to finance
its budget and trade deficits. By financing these deficits, foreign governments
are complicit in the Bush Regime's military aggressions and war crimes.
The Bush Regime's two largest lenders are China and Japan. It is ironic
that Japan, the only nation to experience nuclear attack by the US, is
banker to the Bush Regime as it prepares a possible nuclear attack on Iran.
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- If the rest of the world would simply stop purchasing
US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars into the foreign
exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed with economic crisis
and unable to wage war. The arrogant hubris associated with the "sole
superpower" myth would burst like the bubble it is.
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- The collapse of the dollar would also end the US government's
ability to subvert other countries by purchasing their leaders to do America's
will.
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- The demise of the US dollar is only a question of time.
It would save the world from war and devastation if the dollar is brought
to its demise before the Bush Regime launches its planned attack on Iran.
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- Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is
coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
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- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17035.htm
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