Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe
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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
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 cubic 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
To follow up on these ideas, the following Speaker's Group and
individuals are presented to you for your important events. Speaker's
fees are required.
Writers & Warriors Speakers Group
Contact Bob Nichols at bob.bobnichols@gmail.com for college
distinguished lecture series speakers, commencement speakers, people's
events and rallies. Available speakers include Leuren Moret, Dr. Doug
Rokke, Dennis Kyne, Karen Parker and Bob Nichols.
Topics generally include those of interest in building a positive
culture in the midst of a militarized society and items of interest in
nuclear warfare.
A well known video, "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism," from Dr.
Lawrence Britt, Ph.D., Mike Malloy and Eric Bumrich is a great, short
video. See http://www.bushflash.com/14.html. It is only a few minutes
long but goes a long way in telling why American leaders embrace the
rampant use of genocidal weapons. The "14 Points" video is a great way
to start a meeting.
The following documents were consulted in the preparation of this essay.
1. Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan, "Did the use of uranium weapons
in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?" March 1, 2006,
"European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics."
http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm
2. Dan Fahey's instructions to his secretary, Jack Cohen, for
distribution, du-list@yahoogroups, Feb. 26, 2006, 11:52 p.m.
3. Letter to Congessman McDermott, Attachment 2. Declassified memo to
general L.R. Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, Oct. 30, 1943.
http://tinyurl.com/93eq9
4. The Sunday Times, Britain, Feb. 19, 2006, "UK radiation jump blamed
on Iraq shells," quoting Dr. Chris Busby.
5. Bob Nichols, "Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home," San
Francisco Bay View newspaper. http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn
6. Marion Fulk quoted in the San Francisco Bay View newspaper by
Leuren Moret in "Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty
bullets - A death sentence here and abroad," Aug 18, 2004.
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml
7. Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., "Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War."
http://tinyurl.com/gf9dj
8. Leuren Moret, "Planet Earth as a Weapon and Target," World Affairs
Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2005. http://tinyurl.com/e6d8v
9. Kissinger's quote regarding military men comes from Chapter 14,
which extensively discusses Al Haig, Kissinger and other Nixon staff
advisors' negotiations and differences over national security issues
during the 1969-1974 period. The exact, direct quote marks begin with
the word 'dumb' and terminate after the word 'used.' Source: Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein, "The Final Days," second Touchstone
paperback edition (1994), chapter 14, pp. 194-195.
10. Leuren Moret.
11. War Crimes Watch, http://tinyurl.com/k6xb3
12. Documentary "Beyond Treason" with Moret, Rokke and Dennis Kyne.
http://www.beyondtreason.com/ Documentary "Blowin' in the Wind" with
Moret and Rokke. http://www.bsharp.net.au/
13. Dissent Voice, Bob Nichols. "There Are No Words: Radiation in Iraq
equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs ...." http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe
14. Ward Churchill, "The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History,
Justice and Roosting Chickens," Alternative Press Review
http://tinyurl.com/fvhzn
15. Army Regulation 700-48 and Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278 can be
found easily at the Traprock Peace Site. http://tinyurl.com/erjue and
http://tinyurl.com/pzcrm And the regulations themselves,
http://tinyurl.com/kl2r2 and http://tinyurl.com/jzha8 Adobe .pdf
versions are also available for download from Traprock Peace Center.
16. "Johnny Got a Gun - Protest Song" by Johnny's Dad. Uranium Weapon
Anthem. Distribute freely: http://tinyurl.com/k2zze
This author won a prized Project Censored Award for an article on
depleted uranium munitions in October 2004. The article was titled
"There Are No Words." http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe (headlined in the Bay
View "Radiation in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs,"
http://www.sfbayview.com/041404/radiationiniraq041404.shtml. [13]
Turns out that story was but Part One, a thing I never suspected would
be so. This article is Part Two and serves as an update for the war
fighting activities of the senior American political and military
leaders.
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent
for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to
various on line publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15
years of nuclear war in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of
the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email.
You are encouraged to write bob.bobnichols@gmail.com
