[Sosfbay-discuss] Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

[Tian Harter]

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

Original article is at http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1810728.php
Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe
by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner Saturday, Mar. 25, 2006 at 
10:29 AM
Bob.bobnichols at gmail.com

The average radioactive dose, according to official government index
based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for 
                                                           the average 
adult male in Britain and Europe.

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner


Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and 
awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive 
uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside 
and throughout Europe.

Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after 
conducting research on specialized high volume air filters in England. 
Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of 
London article on Feb. 19, 2006. Their scientific paper, released March 
1st, 2006, [1] proved the event. With all the vigor of delusional 
drunkards, British nuclear and military spokesmen predictably denied the 
reality of an invisible radioactive cloud.

The military claimed that a Chernobyl-like event in the area was 
probably responsible, but no explosive meltdowns of operating reactor 
cores have been reported or observed in 2006 anywhere in the world. 
Evidence of the truth of the gas cloud panicked the military into 
frantic, irrational, ludicrous denials. The military spin was later 
refined and the new Chernobyl claim quietly dropped.

In America, lightweight wannabe spin doctor Dan Fahey issued the cover 
up talking points. [2] The "nuke sycophants" will take up these siren 
call lies as per instructions.

Bush's radioactive "shock and awe" gas cloud descended on Britain and 
Europe like a warm, deadly ticking blanket and stayed throughout the 
American and British shock and awe bombing campaign in 2003. Bush's 
radioactive cloud lasted more than five weeks at high radioactive 
particle concentration levels. There is no gas mask filter fine enough 
to trap this radioactive gas and protect humans.

At Aldermaston, England, where the data was collected and where the 
British Atomic Weapons Establishment, complete with air monitoring 
facilities, is located, the deadly uranium oxide gas measured about 
48,000 radioactive particles per square meter. The average radioactive 
dose, according to official government index based calculations, was 
about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in 
Britain and Europe.

Yes, people breathed this poison gas, absolutely. People throughout 
England and presumably throughout Europe breathed in large quantities of 
this radioactive uranium poison gas.

What are the effects of the poison gas cloud? After a steady decline for 
41 years, the infant death rate has started inching up, many researchers 
think because of the Central Asian nuclear wars. The infant death rate 
is the most sensitive measure of the health of the human race. Like the 
proverbial canaries in a coal mine, the tiniest babies die first.

George W. Bush, as the current appointed manager of the senior American 
political and military establishments, oversees a vast empire that knows 
exactly what the effect of millions of pounds of deadly weaponized 
radioactive ceramic uranium oxide gas and tiny aerosols are on the 
health of people throughout the world. They used uranium munitions in 
Iraq anyway.

The American political and military leaders wanted to use genocidal 
weapons. You might even say the U.S. military went out of their way to 
use these radiation-based genocidal weapons in Iraq. Lots of them, too.

Indeed, the American permanent war establishment has known the effect of 
poisonous uranium oxide gas since 1943. A declassified World War II memo 
to Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the ultra-secretive Manhattan Project 
to make atomic bombs, listed two reasons to use radioactive gas: One was 
to kill people, and the other was to contaminate their land. [3]

A British newspaper quotes Dr. Busby, a government adviser on radiation, 
as saying: "This research shows that rather than remaining near the 
target, as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate 
both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away." [4]

There were and are laws in England that require notification of the 
government when levels of radioactivity are reached around the nuclear 
weapons complex at Aldermaston. No notification was made. When the 
records were requested, the clearly labeled "shock and awe" time frame 
data was omitted.

The Defense Procurement Agency in Bristol supplied the missing data to 
scientists Busby and Morgan. The real British patriots are the ones who 
provided the deleted incriminating data to Busby and Morgan.

Bush and his faithful followers, the neocon fascists, will be remembered 
as securing their place in history by exposing hundreds of millions of 
people to high levels of internal radiation poisoning. Make no mistake 
about it; this is real radioactive uranium gas. The Americans used this 
genetics changing and killing weapon on men, women and children. It made 
no difference to the Americans.

The citizen opposition liberal groups in America who only stand on the 
street corners with signs are misdirecting legitimate citizen outrage 
and protest. These groups are more than just not effective; they 
contribute to the protection of the multi-national corporations, senior 
political and military leaders involved in these pre-planned war crimes.

About ineffective protests, the famous author Ward Churchill says: "(N)o 
one really cares a whit that a sector of the beneficiary population 
(American protesters) has chosen to bear a sort of perpetual 'moral 
witness' to the crimes committed against the Third World. What they do 
care about is whether such witnesses translate their 'professions of 
outrage' into whatever kinds of actions may be necessary to actually put 
an end to the horror." [14] When will the protesters awaken and take 
action to put an end to this horror? Never? Sometime? When?

A well planned effort

The American military is nothing if not well planned. When the decision 
was made to go nuclear in conventional warfare with the promiscuous use 
of radiation dispersing uranium weapons, including land mines, bullets, 
shells, missiles and bombs, the proper and correct Army rules and 
regulations for radiological clean-up were created as well. These rules 
have the force of American law throughout the world. However, the same 
government that adopted these rules is not following them, even in the 
United States.

Army Rules and Regulations on Radiation Poisoning (AR 700-48 and TB 
9-1300-278) [15] unambiguously specify that U.S. troops and local 
civilians exposed to radiation poisoning will be treated. Radiation 
casualties exist, and provisions are made for their care as best as can 
be done for a non-curable bystander affliction: radiation poisoning. 
Clean and treat rules also apply; they are just not obeyed.

In short, the regulations say that if the U.S. military is going to use 
radioactive weapons, then it must clean up the radiological 
contamination and treat the casualties. It is consistent with the 
philosophy of some "if you break it, fix it" former U.S. military 
leaders. The applicable rules and regulations are a common sense 
approach and the only responsible radiological warfare position for the 
only superpower on the planet.

The rules are not followed even in the United States itself [5] but are 
buried away in their mountains of paperwork. Why has this approach been 
rejected by the senior U.S. political leadership? http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn

Marion Fulk, a consultant physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear 
Weapons Lab, is one of the original Manhattan Project scientists. When 
asked if the main purpose for using depleted uranium was for destroying 
things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it 
is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." [6]

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a respected scientist who serves on a variety of 
Pentagon committees, says about 1.3 billion people have already been 
killed, maimed or diseased since the nuclear age started. [7] Is this 
the Pentagon's purpose for using uranium munitions and rejecting the 
legally mandated task to treat and clean?

Most reasonable people would agree that racking up 1.3 billion people 
killed or maimed since the beginning of the nuclear age and the American 
uranium bombing tragedy spreading the gas cloud to Europe and Britain is 
not the "treat and clean" approach to radioactive warfare set out in the 
regulations.

On the contrary, the Bush radioactive gas cloud is just the opposite. 
The plain purpose of exposing hundreds of millions of people would seem 
to be to kill and sicken more people. As a rare Pentagon admission said, 
"The properties of uranium do not change."

Famed former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab scientist Leuren 
Moret has spoken about the dangers of so-called "depleted uranium" in 42 
countries. In "Exotic Weapons," the author, radio and film celebrity 
states, "Since 1991, the continued U.S. military use of dirty bombs, 
dirty missiles and dirty bullets threatens humanity and all living 
things ... and is turning Planet Earth into a death star." [8] [12]

Massive carpet bombing of whole countries with uranium bombs appears to 
be the current war fighting plan of the U.S. military. Unfortunately, 
U.S. troops are the first to be sacrificed on the altar of the neocon 
warfare plan for total global domination.

As former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry 
Kissinger said, "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as 
pawns in foreign policy." [9] American political and military leaders 
never asked the "pawns" or troops if that was OK.

In the authoritative World Affairs Journal, Moret states: "The Korea 
Times reported on Dec. 23, 2005, that the U.S. military has 2.7 million 
depleted uranium bombs [pre-positioned] in South Korea. It is 
understandable why North Korea wants nuclear weapons." [10]

North Korea is just slightly smaller than the American state of 
Mississippi. Two million seven hundred uranium bombs is enough to carpet 
bomb with workhorse Air Force B-52s at the rate of 10 bombs per square 
mile. Some researchers believe that grid bombing with uranium bombs was 
used in the American war in the former Yugoslavia. There is clear 
circumstantial evidence that carpet bombing with genocidal weapons is 
the preferred response of the American military to local resistance efforts.

The San Francisco-based humanitarian and war crimes lawyer Karen Parker 
states unequivocally that the use of depleted uranium in American/U.K. 
weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia is a war crime. 
War crimes are punishable by imprisonment or execution, typically by 
hanging or a firing squad.

America's war criminal class of senior politicians and military leaders 
has a powerful reason to lie about using genocidal weapons for at least 
15 years in Central Asia - their very lives depend on it. In Johnny's 
Dad's words, the senior leaders are "filthy rotten scum." [16]

Upcoming war crimes trial

The chief Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor speaks knowingly and directly 
across more than 50 years to resolutely instruct American citizens on 
exactly what our duty is today, right now: "Individuals have 
international duties which transcend the national obligations of 
obedience … therefore have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent 
crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." [11]

The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal and is now 
international law and, by extension, American law. It is our duty as 
Americans to prevent crimes against peace and humanity. The fascist 
administration now controlling America and the U.S. military cannot be 
allowed to continue these crimes. The world and international law holds 
us all accountable, and the price is dear.

It is time to impeach and imprison members of our government 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, all 300 million Americans, have a problem.

We all are citizens of this country and the world, and, as such, we must 
acknowledge the incontrovertible evidence of war crimes by the leaders 
of the American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq with the use of genocidal 
weapons. Bush and others crossed the line long ago when they lied to get 
us into the Iraq War.

They continue to lie about the damage being done with uranium weapons. 
One of the comforts history provides us is a road map out of unthinkable 
situations, to a more or less tenable, workable future.

The injured and maimed and families of the dead are due treatment and/or 
compensation, the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries rebuilt. 
That is the true legacy of the neocons, the new American Nazis.

What people can do

Every single day thousands of American military and government workers 
handle thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes of 
the American Government's senior political and military leaders.

These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in the 
fascist administration by providing these incriminating papers and the 
"smoking guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A "paper 
blizzard" to teach a whole new generation that what's right is right.

About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers" 
that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon. 
Thousands more pages are needed now.

The neocon or neolib papers like the disgraced New York Times or the 
conservative phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right thing. 
The timid NYT took almost a year to publish the proof of illegal NSA 
government spying on American citizens. Bush then bragged about the 
illegal spying on network prime time television.

We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave the 
president's office.

Do what you think best.

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