“think
about the invisible cancer-causing particles wafting down in the rain or snow
and thank Bush-Clinton-Bush (who may eventually kill far more people than Hitler
or Stalin ever did”
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DU: Possibly the Worst War Crime in History
Posted March 2, 2005 thepeoplesvoice.org
By: Kurt Nimmo
It is totally astounding. Bush Senior, Clinton,
and Bush the Junior are war criminals of a caliber not witnessed since the war
against the people of Vietnam (2-3 million killed). It is estimated this
threesome of mass murder have killed around 1.5 million Iraqis (under the
supervision of Bush I and Clinton), at least 3,620 Afghan civilians (according
to a count conducted by Marc
Herold of the Guardian as of August 2002) and 100,00 Iraqi civilians under
the supervision of Bush II (according to research conducted by The
Lancet medical journal). Add to this staggering death toll approaching 2
million another 11,000 Americans killed by “Gulf War Syndrome” and you have
crimes of Nuremberg tribunal proportions.
“This malady (from uranium munitions), that
thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been
identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible
truth is now being revealed,” Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of
Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, told Bob
Nichols… Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist, Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, at the
VA Central Office, recently reported that ‘Gulf Era Veterans’ now on medical
disability, since 1991, number 518,739 Veterans.” Bernklau added: “The
long-term effects have revealed that DU (uranium oxide) is a virtual death
sentence,” stated Berklau. “Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist, who
retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was also involved
with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the
soldiers (from the 2003 Iraq War) as ’spectacular … and a matter of
concern!’”
Nichols writes that Preventive Psychiatry
E-Newsletter charged last week “that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary
Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal
surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War…. ‘The real reason
for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special
report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as
the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal
about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military,” added
Bernklau.
Add the World Health Organization (WHO) to the
list of culprits. “An expert report warning that the long-term health of
Iraq’s civilian population would be endangered by British and US depleted
uranium (DU) weapons has been kept secret,” writes Rob Edwards for the Sunday
Herald. “The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that
children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing DU,
which is radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication
by the World Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main author, Dr Keith
Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately
suppressed, though this is denied by WHO.”
Baverstock’s study, which has now been
passed to the Sunday Herald, pointed out that Iraq’s arid climate meant that
tiny particles of DU were likely to be blown around and inhaled by civilians for
years to come. It warned that, when inside the body, their radiation and
toxicity could trigger the growth of malignant tumors.
The study suggested that the low-level radiation
from DU could harm cells adjacent to those that are directly irradiated, a
phenomenon known as “the
bystander effect”. This undermines the stability of the body’s genetic
system, and is thought by many scientists to be linked to cancers and possibly
other illnesses.
After Pappy Bush finished his serial mass murder
spree in 1991, “the radiation level in plants and animals [around Basra was]
as much as 84 times the level that the World Health Organization says is
safe,” reports the New
Internationalist. “One of the doctors at Basra General Hospital has taken
photographs to record all the babies who have been born with deformities. The
pictures are horrifying: babies without eyes, without brains, without arms,
without legs, without sex organs, babies with internal organs on the outside of
their bodies.” The number of cancer cases in Iraq has increased by up to 10
times and it was estimated at the time “that 44% of Iraq’s people will have
cancer within ten years,” according to Felicity Arbuthnot.
As if to make sure hundreds of thousands of
Iraqis died in excruciating pain from various cancers, in 1992 “the US
dominated Sanctions Committee refuse[d] to permit Iraq to import the clean-up
equipment that they desperately need[ed] to decontaminate their country of the
Depleted Uranium ammunition that the US fired at them. Approximately 315 tons of
DU dust was left by the use of this ammunition,” writes Hans de Jonge. If you
have the stomach, take a look at these
photographs of birth deformities and defects in Iraq caused by depleted
uranium.
If 315 tons of DU seems like a large amount,
consider that Bush II’s invasion left behind 1,700 tons, according to Jane’s,
citing the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC). The UMRC “team’s
preliminary tests showed that air, soil and water samples contained ‘hundreds
to thousands of times’ the normal levels of radiation.”
All of this will eventually come back to the
somnolent American public—and everybody else—who shrugged, flipped the
channel when Bush’s invasion became boring, and voted to “re-elect” a war
criminal president and Congress. “Small particles less than 1 micron in
diameter do not settle from the air but become incorporated into atmospheric
dust and are transported around the earth until they are removed
("rainout") by rain, pollution or snow,” warns
Leuren Moret of Scientists for Indigenous People in a letter sent to Congress
critter Jim McDermott. “Seasonal climate change, agricultural activities,
fires and other natural and man-made disturbances will continue to remobilize
particles in the upper dust level contaminating terrains off the battlefield…
the depleted uranium dust will cycle through the environment both on and off the
battlefield contaminating water supplies and food.”
Arjun
Makihani, the president of the US Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research, told the New Internationalist in 1998, that once “released, the
particles can be directly inhaled, can pollute the water table and enter the
food chain, spreading radioactive pollution over thousands of square miles.
Exposure to this kind of radiation, as well as to chemical pollution, can cause
genetic damage because of the ease with which uranium can cross the placenta to
the foetus.”
“It’s still hot forever,” Doug Rokke, a
former Pentagon DU expert, told Scott
Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor. “It doesn’t go away, it only
disperses and blows around in the wind.”
So the next time you see an SUV in traffic with a
yellow magnetic ribbon calling for everybody to “Support Our Troops,” think
about the invisible cancer-causing particles wafting down in the rain or snow
and thank Bush-Clinton-Bush (who may eventually kill far more people than Hitler
or Stalin ever did). http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=592
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