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The Most Egregious War
Crime
Posted July 7, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org
By Schuyler Ebbets
Recently Bush’s
handlers again instructed him to make noises about charging Saddam Hussein
and his top lieutenants with war crimes. With characteristic hypocrisy Bush’s
condemnations of Hussein came
at a time when he was facing
charges of war crimes himself from Belgium’s Justice Ministry, and
they came when the world is starting to
realize that America’s use of Depleted Uranium weapons is a war crime.
According to an August 2002 report by the UN Sub
Commission, the laws which are violated by the use of DU weapons include:
the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention;
the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; and
the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which specifically bans the
deployment of 'poison or poisoned weapons', and 'arms, projectiles or
materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'.
The whole diabolical
business began when daddy Bush dropped 1000
metric tons of Depleted Uranium on Iraq in 1991 contaminating the country with the deadly toxic
U238-isotope. This monstrous act has doomed the Iraqi people to endless
suffering and premature death. Childhood leukemia and spontaneous
abortions have become commonplace. According to a UN Sub
Commission report, cancer in Iraq since the first Bush gulf war has increased
1000%, and deformities 600%.' Depleted Uranium has
rendered Iraqi lands infertile, entered the food chain and
contaminated the ground water. With a half-life is 4.5 billion years the
Uranium 238 dropped on Iraq by America may plague the Iraqi people for as
long as civilization exists, or as long as human beings can inhabit a
toxic land.
Boy George, prince of the Neocons or prince of darkness, take your pick,
is again dumping America’s nuclear waste on the countries of the middle
east, using more DU weapons in Afghanistan than were used in the Gulf War
and Balkans combined, according to Dr. Asef Dracovic, discoverer
of the 'Gulf War Syndrome'.
America’s bombing of other countries with radioactive waste is possibly
the most egregious war crime ever committed. Nothing that Hitler or Stalin
did can truly be compared with the endless suffering caused by DU weapons. Not only are Americans participating in the wanton
extermination of life, but they are destroying the planet, rendering
certain regions of the earth uninhabitable. Professor Doug Rokke,
ex-director of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium project and former
professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University said, 'We
can't just use munitions which leave a toxic wasteland behind them and
kill indiscriminately. 'It is the equivalent to a war crime.'”
Pollution
from nuclear energy and weapons programs, including DU weapons, up to 1989 will account for 65
million deaths, according to The ECRR, an international body of 30
independent scientists led by Dr Chris Busby, a member of the British
Government’s radiation risk committee, and adviser to the Ministry of
Defense. Of course this study does not take into account the deaths
resulting from thousands of tons of DU spread over the earth by Bush
and his father after 1989. Rather, it indicates the potential for death
and suffering that such actions will have.
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This Newsletter article is © copyright 2003 by
Schuyler Ebbets (sebbets@comcast.net)
Permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so
long as this credit is attached.
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