It always pays to listen, and to listen exactly, to what the
senior U.S. military officials say about fighting wars. In 1991, Gen. Colin
Powell sent 500,000 men with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, lots of 70-ton Abrams
Tanks and other soldier equipment for a 100-hour war against a weak third world
country – Iraq. It was called the Powell Doctrine and required a quick enemy
defeat by “overwhelming force,” “defined goals” and an “exit strategy.”
Another George Bush, George Bush the second, sent only
145,000 troopers for the much more ambitious conquering and occupation of Iraq
12 years later. What changed?
Why send 355,000 fewer troopers for a much larger, tougher,
sure to get you killed job? The American war policies did not change. The answer
is that the Americans had millions of pounds of a deadly microscopic “helper”
called depleted uranium as a “force multiplier” deployed in Iraq.
A force multiplier is a technological method to multiply the
aggressiveness and lethality of an armed force. Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki of Ryukyus
University in Okinawa, a physicist, stated publicly that the atomicity
equivalent of the weaponized uranium gas deployed in Iraq by U.S. military
forces is hundreds of thousands of times the radioactivity of the Nagasaki
atomic bomb.
Marion Fulk, who started working on nuclear weapons more than
60 years ago during the Manhattan Project, says, “I would say that it is the
perfect weapon for killing lots of people.” A leading scientist, Leuren Moret,
speaking out on the use of depleted uranium today, says flatly, “Iraq is
uninhabitable,” due to widespread radiation poisoning.
Uranium weapons are criminal violations of international and
U.S. federal law in at least four ways. That is exactly what the U.S. military
and politicians demanded be used in Iraq and Central Asia. Noted humanitarian
and war crimes lawyer Karen Parker gives a simple four point test to determine
that DU is illegal and a war crime and a crime against humanity. However, using
the four point test as a weapons spec gives the Pentagon the super weapon they
wanted. War crimes lawyers, in many ways, wrote the spec for Washington’s latest
genocidal wonder weapon.
A weapon that:
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strays off the field of battle.
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lasts after the battle is over.
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causes cancer and other major devastating diseases.
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causes lethal harm to people and the environment, is an
illegal weapon as determined by a U.N. body. In short, its use is a war crime.
DU, or so-called depleted uranium, fits the profile
perfectly. The senior American military and political leadership had their super
weapon. They then determined that the Iraqi people and others in Central Asia’s
resource rich lands were in the way, had no right to live and had to go. They
would be nuked by uranium munitions.
The American war planners knew and assumed that the U.S.
soldiers were expendable commodities, like bullets. They would be nuked, too. As
the famous American secretary of state, His Excellency Henry Kissinger, said,
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy.”
The American expeditionary forces purposefully used a long
lasting genocidal weapon, uranium gas, in Iraq to decimate the Iraqi
civilization. The Americans are still using this genocidal weapon more than 15
years later. It’s estimated that more than a million Iraqis died during the past
15 years from wars and sanctions. There were only about 24.4 million Iraqis to
start with in 1991. The extermination minded American senior politicians and
military leaders are nothing if not determined, ruthless and relentless.
As the brutal American Marines say, “Kill their ass and steal
their gas.” The American privates and corporals, the so-called grunts, do not
know they are included in the soon to be dead or maimed, because poison gas
weapons are not controllable. The poison flies everywhere with the changing
wind. Poison gas is very unpredictable. The grunts are “throw away soldiers.”
The Pentagon reported 320 tons of deadly,
radiation-dispersing weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas weapons were deployed
on the nearly defenseless Iraqis in 1991. Cancers and other diseases soared.
Ever since the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August
1945, radiation dispersing uranium weapons have been war crimes and illegal.
Since the Americans are the world’s only “super power,” the
world is in a quandary, wondering what to do to stop the Americans? The American
generals and senior politicians are addicted to the incredible lethality and
force multiplier properties of depleted uranium.
Uranium weapons deliver death and illness in a big way,
forever. That makes non-nuclear countries fear the United States. The American
politicians love it because they know fear is a great motivator.
Thousands of nuclear missiles remain on hair trigger alert,
even today. The lethal nuke birds can fly in 15 minutes. All world leaders know
it. Just like that, they could die in a global thermonuclear war in which
everybody dies or wishes they were dead.
After the U.S. nuked Japan in 1945 with large depleted
uranium bombs wrapped around a tiny core of A-Bomb and H-Bomb devices, it did
not take long for the U.S. monopoly on global thermonuclear weapons to evaporate
into thin air and for nukes to proliferate like fleas on a dog. As the famed
scientist Albert Einstein said, “There are no secrets.” Sure enough, soon
Russia, China, France, England, Israel, Pakistan, India and probably others also
possessed thermonuclear weapons.
A country has to have a nuclear reactor to start a nuclear
weapons program. Big American companies were very anxious to peddle the
multibillion dollar Goliaths or little baby “research” reactors all over the
world. The only difference in them is how much atomic bomb making material each
can produce in a year when set up right.
The big megawatt reactors can make the stuff for about 40
atom bombs a year. Indeed, that is their primary purpose. The highly subsidized,
very expensive, very dirty “electrical power” the reactors heat water to make is
effective political cover. The couch potato – dumbed down American public – does
not see the reactors’ true purpose: atom bomb production.
More than 40 countries now have 430 reactors around the
world. That means more than 40 countries can produce, or already have produced,
global thermonuclear weapons.
The Pentagon wanted to be able to use radioactive uranium to
kill and cause deadly cancers without the very noticeable boom of an actual atom
bomb. The entire world was really down on the big atom bomb blasts on human
populations. Still, the Americans exploded 1,200 atom bombs before Dr. Ernest
Sternglass and others convinced the United States Senate to approve the Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty in 1962.
The amount of radiation released by the atomic bombs pales in
comparison to the huge amount of permanent killing radiation released in Iraq.
The total radioactive life span of uranium weapons is a majestically creepazoid
45 billion years. The Iraqis have a right to ask, “Why do the Americans hate us
so? Why do the Americans want to exterminate us?”
Ordinary use of the big atom bomb was out. What were the U.S.
political and military leaders to do? Answer: Go directly to the major radiation
dispersing element in the atomic bombs and use it for radioactive munitions:
dirty bullets, dirty shells and dirty bombs – depleted uranium. Problem solved.
The military-industrial-congressional complex had their force multiplier back.
But, with budgetary battles and contending with those within
the military who opposed Radiation Dispersing Weapons, it took decades to craft
and develop the uranium munitions. Keep in mind that these are not “uranium
covered” or “uranium tipped” or “weakly radioactive” weapons as Pentagon
apologists, propagandists and other war promoters say they are. They lie.
Uranium weapons in use today are machined from solid uranium.
The most plentiful metal in the atom bombs used to devastate
Japan and warn the world about the trigger happy senior American leadership was
so-called “depleted uranium.” It was five feet thick and only fractionally less
radioactive than the feedstock uranium it came from.
DU would be ideal as a killer weaponized radioactive uranium
gas fired in conventional weapons. A vanishing small percentage of the
radioactive uranium in a hundred pounds of uranium is deadly enough to make
atomic bombs; but it is all radioactive. Take one half of the tiny amount of
bomb making stuff out and it is called “depleted uranium.” What a con, and
hundreds of millions of Americans fell for it!
Thus, depleted uranium rounds, including bombs, were born.
They were tested in various wars – field tests for new weapons – and
configurations before the new genocidal munitions were ready for prime time in
the 1991 Iraq “war” turkey shoot.
The Pentagon admitted to using 320 tons of DU – of weaponized
uranium gas, aerosols and fragments – that left Iraq a cancer ridden radioactive
wasteland. The genocide embracing American forces were not through with Iraq
yet, though. They would be back.
The Americans have spent billions of dollars to set up and
maintain a huge industrial operation to produce nuclear weapons of all kinds.
This ranges from the publicly understood atomic bombs like those used on two
Japanese cities’ civilian populations to the nuclear radiation dispersing
bullets, shells, land mines, missiles and bombs. The uranium weapon as a force
multiplier is alive and well.
Today, this vast industrial strength nuclear weapons
establishment maintains four ammunition storage dumps in the U.S. and an unknown
number around the world. Each of the U.S. ammo dumps in the U.S. is licensed by
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to have 22,000,000 pounds of actual uranium on
hand in uranium munitions. When these huge war material centers move into high
gear, they are a wonder of lethal industrial killing efficiency.
To maintain “Class 1” status, the ammo dumps must be able to
ship 3.2 million pounds of weapons a day for 30 days. That can total 384,000,000
pounds of radioactive weaponized ceramic uranium oxide poison gas dispersing
weapons per month.
George Bush the Second launched the “shock and awe” uranium
bombing campaign against Baghdad and the remainder of Iraq in March of 2003.
Within nine days, microscopic radioactive uranium oxide particles were detected
in special high volume air filters in Aldermaston, England, some 2,700 miles
away. Millions of pounds of uranium gas contaminated Baghdad yet again.
Government and university scientists estimated the five week
uranium bombing campaign exposed hundreds of millions of people in Europe and
Britain to tiny radioactive particles at the adult male lung dose rate of 23
million particles.
Cancers and other illnesses will follow, of course. For the
first time in 41 years, the infant neonatal death rate is inching up. The
tiniest babies die first. Tony Blair, the English prime minister, tried to ride
the tiger too many times to no effect. The berserker Americans were
uncontrollable. This is Bush’s true legacy.
Now, we really must listen to the war criminals in the senior
American political and military leadership. The purpose of the illegal uranium
weapons is to multiply the effectiveness of a smaller force by killing or
maiming the enemy continuously, after the initial battle is over. The millions
of pounds of radioactive ceramic uranium oxide gas and dust all over Iraq are a
deadly virtual army – killing and maiming civilian Iraqi men, women and children
continuously.
People have always thought wars against children are
particularly gross. That is not a problem for the American war machine planners
at the Pentagon. Just look at what they do.
The radioactive virtual army secures the Iraqi homeland. The
American war criminals are free to “redeploy” or ship the now radioactive,
dying, constantly replaced American Army veterans to whatever little country is
next – Iran, Syria or North Korea.
“Only” about 2,300 American troopers were sacrificed in the
past three years in Iraq. Those deaths are acceptable to the American
leadership. So were those of 250,000 Iraqis. They will move on and turn yet
another country into radioactive rubble. The only real question is: “Who’s
next?”
Some Americans think that all this just could not happen in
America. Foolish American intellectuals think that mere words without acts will
deter the in-control American fascists. They simply do not understand that the
old American Republic is dead and gone.
Now, in 2006, the United States is the most successful
fascist empire, with the most lethal military, in the history of the world. The
fascist government of war criminals and crooks must be put out as soon as
possible, certainly before they invade Iran and use global thermonuclear weapons
as promised and nuclear munitions again to do so. Words do not count in this
arena, though, only actions.
Because, ultimately, these senior American generals and
politicians must be cast out of office, tried and appropriately punished for
committing these war crimes. It is the right thing to do. What America is doing
to the world is wrong and criminal. All Americans are war criminals. We all bear
responsibility – all 300 million of us.
There are at least six individuals, probably hundreds more,
affiliated with the DOD, the CIA and the DOE who aggressively argue for the God
given right of the American Expeditionary Forces to use deadly uranium weapons.
These public relations masters work hand in glove with their programming
counterparts in the big media to maintain the lie.
Since this article will only be seen in the SF Bay View
newspaper, which goes all over the U.S. and the world, and on the Internet, it
is fairly easy for these despised characters to publish continuous “feel-good”
articles about these nuclear munitions. Already this series of anti-nuclear
munition articles is sent by you, the readers, all over the country and the
world. You must do more – always more.
Feel outraged? Helpless? Upset? Powerless? I do!
Do you want to stop these Americans from committing these war
crimes? Then you must “be the media.” Do the only thing you can control. Tell
your friends and neighbors about this. Just say, “The U.S. is using radioactive
weapons and is destroying the world. What can we do to mess with them? Let’s do
it.”
Working together, you will be able to figure out all manner
of wildly inventive and cool things to do to stop this worldwide menace. The
generals and politicians don’t stand a chance against a righteously angry
American public. Just go ahead and do it. Don’t wait for permission. You are
right! Don’t be timid! The whole world is watching.
Thank you for your time.
