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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. <!--break--> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Aldermaston_Atomic_Bomb_Factory.jpg"><br><p><strong>Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe</strong></p><p><strong>Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner</strong></p><p /><p>Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and<br />awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive<br />uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside<br />and throughout Europe.<br /><br />Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after<br />conducting research on specialized high volume air filters in England.<br />Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of<br />London article on Feb. 19, 2006. Their scientific paper, released<br />March 1st, 2006, [1] proved the event. With all the vigor of<br />delusional drunkards, British nuclear and military spokesmen<br />predictably denied the reality of an invisible radioactive cloud.<br /><br />The military claimed that a Chernobyl-like event in the area was<br />probably responsible, but no explosive meltdowns of operating reactor<br />cores have been reported or observed in 2006 anywhere in the world.<br />Evidence of the truth of the gas cloud panicked the military into<br />frantic, irrational, ludicrous denials. The military spin was later<br />refined and the new Chernobyl claim quietly dropped.<br /><br />In America, lightweight wannabe spin doctor Dan Fahey issued the cover<br />up talking points. [2] The "nuke sycophants" will take up these siren<br />call lies as per instructions.<br /><br />Bush's radioactive "shock and awe" gas cloud descended on Britain and<br />Europe like a warm, deadly ticking blanket and stayed throughout the<br />American and British shock and awe bombing campaign in 2003. Bush's<br />radioactive cloud lasted more than five weeks at high radioactive<br />particle concentration levels. There is no gas mask filter fine enough<br />to trap this radioactive gas and protect humans.<br /><br />At Aldermaston, England, where the data was collected and where the<br />British Atomic Weapons Establishment, complete with air monitoring<br />facilities, is located, the deadly uranium oxide gas measured about<br />48,000 radioactive particles per cubic meter. The average radioactive<br />dose, according to official government index based calculations, was<br />about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in<br />Britain and Europe.<br /><br />Yes, people breathed this poison gas, absolutely. People throughout<br />England and presumably throughout Europe breathed in large quantities<br />of this radioactive uranium poison gas.<br /><br />What are the effects of the poison gas cloud? After a steady decline<br />for 41 years, the infant death rate has started inching up, many<br />researchers think because of the Central Asian nuclear wars. The<br />infant death rate is the most sensitive measure of the health of the<br />human race. Like the proverbial canaries in a coal mine, the tiniest<br />babies die first.<br /><br />George W. Bush, as the current appointed manager of the senior<br />American political and military establishments, oversees a vast empire<br />that knows exactly what the effect of millions of pounds of deadly<br />weaponized radioactive ceramic uranium oxide gas and tiny aerosols are<br />on the health of people throughout the world. They used uranium<br />munitions in Iraq anyway.<br /><br />The American political and military leaders wanted to use genocidal<br />weapons. You might even say the U.S. military went out of their way to<br />use these radiation-based genocidal weapons in Iraq. Lots of them,<br />too.<br /><br />Indeed, the American permanent war establishment has known the effect<br />of poisonous uranium oxide gas since 1943. A declassified World War II<br />memo to Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the ultra-secretive Manhattan<br />Project to make atomic bombs, listed two reasons to use radioactive<br />gas: One was to kill people, and the other was to contaminate their<br />land. [3]<br /><br />A British newspaper quotes Dr. Busby, a government adviser on<br />radiation, as saying: "This research shows that rather than remaining<br />near the target, as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons<br />contaminate both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of<br />miles away." [4]<br /><br />There were and are laws in England that require notification of the<br />government when levels of radioactivity are reached around the nuclear<br />weapons complex at Aldermaston. No notification was made. When the<br />records were requested, the clearly labeled "shock and awe" time frame<br />data was omitted.<br /><br />The Defense Procurement Agency in Bristol supplied the missing data to<br />scientists Busby and Morgan. The real British patriots are the ones<br />who provided the deleted incriminating data to Busby and Morgan.<br /><br />Bush and his faithful followers, the neocon fascists, will be<br />remembered as securing their place in history by exposing hundreds of<br />millions of people to high levels of internal radiation poisoning.<br />Make no mistake about it; this is real radioactive uranium gas. The<br />Americans used this genetics changing and killing weapon on men, women<br />and children. It made no difference to the Americans.<br /><br />The citizen opposition liberal groups in America who only stand on the<br />street corners with signs are misdirecting legitimate citizen outrage<br />and protest. These groups are more than just not effective; they<br />contribute to the protection of the multi-national corporations,<br />senior political and military leaders involved in these pre-planned<br />war crimes.<br /><br />About ineffective protests, the famous author Ward Churchill says:<br />"(N)o one really cares a whit that a sector of the beneficiary<br />population (American protesters) has chosen to bear a sort of<br />perpetual 'moral witness' to the crimes committed against the Third<br />World. What they do care about is whether such witnesses translate<br />their 'professions of outrage' into whatever kinds of actions may be<br />necessary to actually put an end to the horror." [14] When will the<br />protesters awaken and take action to put an end to this horror? Never?<br />Sometime? When?<br /><br />A well planned effort<br /><br />The American military is nothing if not well planned. When the<br />decision was made to go nuclear in conventional warfare with the<br />promiscuous use of radiation dispersing uranium weapons, including<br />land mines, bullets, shells, missiles and bombs, the proper and<br />correct Army rules and regulations for radiological clean-up were<br />created as well. These rules have the force of American law throughout<br />the world. However, the same government that adopted these rules is<br />not following them, even in the United States.<br /><br />Army Rules and Regulations on Radiation Poisoning (AR 700-48 and TB<br />9-1300-278) [15] unambiguously specify that U.S. troops and local<br />civilians exposed to radiation poisoning will be treated. Radiation<br />casualties exist, and provisions are made for their care as best as<br />can be done for a non-curable bystander affliction: radiation<br />poisoning. Clean and treat rules also apply; they are just not obeyed.<br /><br />In short, the regulations say that if the U.S. military is going to<br />use radioactive weapons, then it must clean up the radiological<br />contamination and treat the casualties. It is consistent with the<br />philosophy of some "if you break it, fix it" former U.S. military<br />leaders. The applicable rules and regulations are a common sense<br />approach and the only responsible radiological warfare position for<br />the only superpower on the planet.<br /><br />The rules are not followed even in the United States itself [5] but<br />are buried away in their mountains of paperwork. Why has this approach<br />been rejected by the senior U.S. political leadership?<br />http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn<br /><br />Marion Fulk, a consultant physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear<br />Weapons Lab, is one of the original Manhattan Project scientists. When<br />asked if the main purpose for using depleted uranium was for<br />destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would<br />say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." [6]<br /><br />Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a respected scientist who serves on a variety of<br />Pentagon committees, says about 1.3 billion people have already been<br />killed, maimed or diseased since the nuclear age started. [7] Is this<br />the Pentagon's purpose for using uranium munitions and rejecting the<br />legally mandated task to treat and clean?<br /><br />Most reasonable people would agree that racking up 1.3 billion people<br />killed or maimed since the beginning of the nuclear age and the<br />American uranium bombing tragedy spreading the gas cloud to Europe and<br />Britain is not the "treat and clean" approach to radioactive warfare<br />set out in the regulations.<br /><br />On the contrary, the Bush radioactive gas cloud is just the opposite.<br />The plain purpose of exposing hundreds of millions of people would<br />seem to be to kill and sicken more people. As a rare Pentagon<br />admission said, "The properties of uranium do not change."<br /><br />Famed former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab scientist Leuren<br />Moret has spoken about the dangers of so-called "depleted uranium" in<br />42 countries. In "Exotic Weapons," the author, radio and film<br />celebrity states, "Since 1991, the continued U.S. military use of<br />dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets threatens humanity and<br />all living things ... and is turning Planet Earth into a death star."<br />[8] [12]<br /><br />Massive carpet bombing of whole countries with uranium bombs appears<br />to be the current war fighting plan of the U.S. military.<br />Unfortunately, U.S. troops are the first to be sacrificed on the altar<br />of the neocon warfare plan for total global domination.<br /><br />As former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry<br />Kissinger said, "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as<br />pawns in foreign policy." [9] American political and military leaders<br />never asked the "pawns" or troops if that was OK.<br /><br />In the authoritative World Affairs Journal, Moret states: "The Korea<br />Times reported on Dec. 23, 2005, that the U.S. military has 2.7<br />million depleted uranium bombs [pre-positioned] in South Korea. It is<br />understandable why North Korea wants nuclear weapons." [10]<br /><br />North Korea is just slightly smaller than the American state of<br />Mississippi. Two million seven hundred uranium bombs is enough to<br />carpet bomb with workhorse Air Force B-52s at the rate of 10 bombs per<br />square mile. Some researchers believe that grid bombing with uranium<br />bombs was used in the American war in the former Yugoslavia. There is<br />clear circumstantial evidence that carpet bombing with genocidal<br />weapons is the preferred response of the American military to local<br />resistance efforts.<br /><br />The San Francisco-based humanitarian and war crimes lawyer Karen<br />Parker states unequivocally that the use of depleted uranium in<br />American/U.K. weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia<br />is a war crime. War crimes are punishable by imprisonment or<br />execution, typically by hanging or a firing squad.<br /><br />America's war criminal class of senior politicians and military<br />leaders has a powerful reason to lie about using genocidal weapons for<br />at least 15 years in Central Asia - their very lives depend on it. In<br />Johnny's Dad's words, the senior leaders are "filthy rotten scum."<br />[16]<br /><br />Upcoming war crimes trial<br /><br />The chief Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor speaks knowingly and<br />directly across more than 50 years to resolutely instruct American<br />citizens on exactly what our duty is today, right now: "Individuals<br />have international duties which transcend the national obligations of<br />obedience … therefore have the duty to violate domestic laws to<br />prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." [11]<br /><br />The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal and is now<br />international law and, by extension, American law. It is our duty as<br />Americans to prevent crimes against peace and humanity. The fascist<br />administration now controlling America and the U.S. military cannot be<br />allowed to continue these crimes. The world and international law<br />holds us all accountable, and the price is dear.<br /><br />It is time to impeach and imprison members of our government for their<br />war crimes commensurate with their degree of complicity and guilt. If<br />the House will not impeach and the Senate will not put them on trial;<br />then we, all 300 million Americans, have a problem.<br /><br />We all are citizens of this country and the world, and, as such, we<br />must acknowledge the incontrovertible evidence of war crimes by the<br />leaders of the American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq with the use of<br />genocidal weapons. Bush and others crossed the line long ago when they<br />lied to get us into the Iraq War.<br /><br />They continue to lie about the damage being done with uranium weapons.<br />One of the comforts history provides us is a road map out of<br />unthinkable situations, to a more or less tenable, workable future.<br /><br />The injured and maimed and families of the dead are due treatment<br />and/or compensation, the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries<br />rebuilt. That is the true legacy of the neocons, the new American<br />Nazis.<br /><br />What people can do<br /><br />Every single day thousands of American military and government workers<br />handle thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes of<br />the American Government's senior political and military leaders.<br /><br />These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in<br />the fascist administration by providing these incriminating papers and<br />the "smoking guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A<br />"paper blizzard" to teach a whole new generation that what's right is<br />right.<br /><br />About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers"<br />that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon.<br />Thousands more pages are needed now.<br /><br />The neocon or neolib papers like the disgraced New York Times or the<br />conservative phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right<br />thing. The timid NYT took almost a year to publish the proof of<br />illegal NSA government spying on American citizens. Bush then bragged<br />about the illegal spying on network prime time television.<br /><br />We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave<br />the president's office.<br /><br />Do what you think best<br /><br />To follow up on these ideas, the following Speaker's Group and<br />individuals are presented to you for your important events. Speaker's<br />fees are required.<br /><br />Writers & Warriors Speakers Group<br /><br />Contact Bob Nichols at bob.bobnichols@gmail.com for college<br />distinguished lecture series speakers, commencement speakers, people's<br />events and rallies. Available speakers include Leuren Moret, Dr. Doug<br />Rokke, Dennis Kyne, Karen Parker and Bob Nichols.<br /><br />Topics generally include those of interest in building a positive<br />culture in the midst of a militarized society and items of interest in<br />nuclear warfare.<br /><br />A well known video, "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism," from Dr.<br />Lawrence Britt, Ph.D., Mike Malloy and Eric Bumrich is a great, short<br />video. See http://www.bushflash.com/14.html. It is only a few minutes<br />long but goes a long way in telling why American leaders embrace the<br />rampant use of genocidal weapons. The "14 Points" video is a great way<br />to start a meeting.<br /><br />The following documents were consulted in the preparation of this essay.<br /><br />1. Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan, "Did the use of uranium weapons<br />in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?" March 1, 2006,<br />"European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics."<br />http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm<br /><br />2. Dan Fahey's instructions to his secretary, Jack Cohen, for<br />distribution, du-list@yahoogroups, Feb. 26, 2006, 11:52 p.m.<br /><br />3. Letter to Congessman McDermott, Attachment 2. Declassified memo to<br />general L.R. Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, Oct. 30, 1943.<br />http://tinyurl.com/93eq9<br /><br />4. The Sunday Times, Britain, Feb. 19, 2006, "UK radiation jump blamed<br />on Iraq shells," quoting Dr. Chris Busby.<br /><br />5. Bob Nichols, "Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home," San<br />Francisco Bay View newspaper. http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn<br /><br />6. Marion Fulk quoted in the San Francisco Bay View newspaper by<br />Leuren Moret in "Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty<br />bullets - A death sentence here and abroad," Aug 18, 2004.<br />http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml<br /><br />7. Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., "Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War."<br />http://tinyurl.com/gf9dj<br /><br />8. Leuren Moret, "Planet Earth as a Weapon and Target," World Affairs<br />Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2005. http://tinyurl.com/e6d8v<br /><br />9. Kissinger's quote regarding military men comes from Chapter 14,<br />which extensively discusses Al Haig, Kissinger and other Nixon staff<br />advisors' negotiations and differences over national security issues<br />during the 1969-1974 period. The exact, direct quote marks begin with<br />the word 'dumb' and terminate after the word 'used.' Source: Bob<br />Woodward and Carl Bernstein, "The Final Days," second Touchstone<br />paperback edition (1994), chapter 14, pp. 194-195.<br /><br />10. Leuren Moret.<br /><br />11. War Crimes Watch, http://tinyurl.com/k6xb3<br /><br />12. Documentary "Beyond Treason" with Moret, Rokke and Dennis Kyne.<br />http://www.beyondtreason.com/ Documentary "Blowin' in the Wind" with<br />Moret and Rokke. http://www.bsharp.net.au/<br /><br />13. Dissent Voice, Bob Nichols. "There Are No Words: Radiation in Iraq<br />equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs ...." http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe<br /><br />14. Ward Churchill, "The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History,<br />Justice and Roosting Chickens," Alternative Press Review<br />http://tinyurl.com/fvhzn<br /><br />15. Army Regulation 700-48 and Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278 can be<br />found easily at the Traprock Peace Site. http://tinyurl.com/erjue and<br />http://tinyurl.com/pzcrm And the regulations themselves,<br />http://tinyurl.com/kl2r2 and http://tinyurl.com/jzha8 Adobe .pdf<br />versions are also available for download from Traprock Peace Center.<br /><br />16. "Johnny Got a Gun - Protest Song" by Johnny's Dad. Uranium Weapon<br />Anthem. Distribute freely: http://tinyurl.com/k2zze<br /><br />This author won a prized Project Censored Award for an article on<br />depleted uranium munitions in October 2004. The article was titled<br />"There Are No Words." http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe (headlined in the Bay<br />View "Radiation in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs,"<br />http://www.sfbayview.com/041404/radiationiniraq041404.shtml. [13]<br />Turns out that story was but Part One, a thing I never suspected would<br />be so. This article is Part Two and serves as an update for the war<br />fighting activities of the senior American political and military<br />leaders.<br /><br />Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent<br />for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to<br />various on line publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15<br />years of nuclear war in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of<br />the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email.<br />You are encouraged to write <a href="mailto:bob.bobnichols@gmail.com">bob.bobnichols@gmail.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml" target="_blank" onfiltered="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#003399"><u>http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml</u></font></a></p><p><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/lo6pc" target="_blank" onfiltered="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#003399"><u>http://tinyurl.com/lo6pc</u></font></a></b><br /><br /></p><!-- toctype = X-unknown --><!-- toctype = text --><!-- text --><!-- END TOC --><p><br /><br /></p>
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<p>The average radioactive dose, according to official government index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the<br /> average adult male in Britain and Europe.</p> <!--break--><p><img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Aldermaston_Atomic_Bomb_Factory.jpg" /><br /> </p><p><strong>Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe</strong></p> <p><strong>Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and<br />awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive<br />uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside<br />and throughout Europe.</p> <p>Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after<br />conducting research on specialized high volume air filters in England.<br />Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of<br />London article on Feb. 19, 2006. Their scientific paper, released<br />March 1st, 2006, [1] proved the event. With all the vigor of<br />delusional drunkards, British nuclear and military spokesmen<br />predictably denied the reality of an invisible radioactive cloud.</p> <p>The military claimed that a Chernobyl-like event in the area was<br />probably responsible, but no explosive meltdowns of operating reactor<br />cores have been reported or observed in 2006 anywhere in the world.<br />Evidence of the truth of the gas cloud panicked the military into<br />frantic, irrational, ludicrous denials. The military spin was later<br />refined and the new Chernobyl claim quietly dropped.</p> <p>In America, lightweight wannabe spin doctor Dan Fahey issued the cover<br />up talking points. [2] The "nuke sycophants" will take up these siren<br />call lies as per instructions.</p> <p>Bush's radioactive "shock and awe" gas cloud descended on Britain and<br />Europe like a warm, deadly ticking blanket and stayed throughout the<br />American and British shock and awe bombing campaign in 2003. Bush's<br />radioactive cloud lasted more than five weeks at high radioactive<br />particle concentration levels. There is no gas mask filter fine enough<br />to trap this radioactive gas and protect humans.</p> <p>At Aldermaston, England, where the data was collected and where the<br />British Atomic Weapons Establishment, complete with air monitoring<br />facilities, is located, the deadly uranium oxide gas measured about<br />48,000 radioactive particles per cubic meter. The average radioactive<br />dose, according to official government index based calculations, was<br />about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in<br />Britain and Europe.</p> <p>Yes, people breathed this poison gas, absolutely. People throughout<br />England and presumably throughout Europe breathed in large quantities<br />of this radioactive uranium poison gas.</p> <p>What are the effects of the poison gas cloud? After a steady decline<br />for 41 years, the infant death rate has started inching up, many<br />researchers think because of the Central Asian nuclear wars. The<br />infant death rate is the most sensitive measure of the health of the<br />human race. Like the proverbial canaries in a coal mine, the tiniest<br />babies die first.</p> <p>George W. Bush, as the current appointed manager of the senior<br />American political and military establishments, oversees a vast empire<br />that knows exactly what the effect of millions of pounds of deadly<br />weaponized radioactive ceramic uranium oxide gas and tiny aerosols are<br />on the health of people throughout the world. They used uranium<br />munitions in Iraq anyway.</p> <p>The American political and military leaders wanted to use genocidal<br />weapons. You might even say the U.S. military went out of their way to<br />use these radiation-based genocidal weapons in Iraq. Lots of them,<br />too.</p> <p>Indeed, the American permanent war establishment has known the effect<br />of poisonous uranium oxide gas since 1943. A declassified World War II<br />memo to Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the ultra-secretive Manhattan<br />Project to make atomic bombs, listed two reasons to use radioactive<br />gas: One was to kill people, and the other was to contaminate their<br />land. [3]</p> <p>A British newspaper quotes Dr. Busby, a government adviser on<br />radiation, as saying: "This research shows that rather than remaining<br />near the target, as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons<br />contaminate both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of<br />miles away." [4]</p> <p>There were and are laws in England that require notification of the<br />government when levels of radioactivity are reached around the nuclear<br />weapons complex at Aldermaston. No notification was made. When the<br />records were requested, the clearly labeled "shock and awe" time frame<br />data was omitted.</p> <p>The Defense Procurement Agency in Bristol supplied the missing data to<br />scientists Busby and Morgan. The real British patriots are the ones<br />who provided the deleted incriminating data to Busby and Morgan.</p> <p>Bush and his faithful followers, the neocon fascists, will be<br />remembered as securing their place in history by exposing hundreds of<br />millions of people to high levels of internal radiation poisoning.<br />Make no mistake about it; this is real radioactive uranium gas. The<br />Americans used this genetics changing and killing weapon on men, women<br />and children. It made no difference to the Americans.</p> <p>The citizen opposition liberal groups in America who only stand on the<br />street corners with signs are misdirecting legitimate citizen outrage<br />and protest. These groups are more than just not effective; they<br />contribute to the protection of the multi-national corporations,<br />senior political and military leaders involved in these pre-planned<br />war crimes.</p> <p>About ineffective protests, the famous author Ward Churchill says:<br />"(N)o one really cares a whit that a sector of the beneficiary<br />population (American protesters) has chosen to bear a sort of<br />perpetual 'moral witness' to the crimes committed against the Third<br />World. What they do care about is whether such witnesses translate<br />their 'professions of outrage' into whatever kinds of actions may be<br />necessary to actually put an end to the horror." [14] When will the<br />protesters awaken and take action to put an end to this horror? Never?<br />Sometime? When?</p> <p>A well planned effort</p> <p>The American military is nothing if not well planned. When the<br />decision was made to go nuclear in conventional warfare with the<br />promiscuous use of radiation dispersing uranium weapons, including<br />land mines, bullets, shells, missiles and bombs, the proper and<br />correct Army rules and regulations for radiological clean-up were<br />created as well. These rules have the force of American law throughout<br />the world. However, the same government that adopted these rules is<br />not following them, even in the United States.</p> <p>Army Rules and Regulations on Radiation Poisoning (AR 700-48 and TB<br />9-1300-278) [15] unambiguously specify that U.S. troops and local<br />civilians exposed to radiation poisoning will be treated. Radiation<br />casualties exist, and provisions are made for their care as best as<br />can be done for a non-curable bystander affliction: radiation<br />poisoning. Clean and treat rules also apply; they are just not obeyed.</p> <p>In short, the regulations say that if the U.S. military is going to<br />use radioactive weapons, then it must clean up the radiological<br />contamination and treat the casualties. It is consistent with the<br />philosophy of some "if you break it, fix it" former U.S. military<br />leaders. The applicable rules and regulations are a common sense<br />approach and the only responsible radiological warfare position for<br />the only superpower on the planet.</p> <p>The rules are not followed even in the United States itself [5] but<br />are buried away in their mountains of paperwork. Why has this approach<br />been rejected by the senior U.S. political leadership?<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn">http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn</a></p> <p>Marion Fulk, a consultant physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear<br />Weapons Lab, is one of the original Manhattan Project scientists. When<br />asked if the main purpose for using depleted uranium was for<br />destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would<br />say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." [6]</p> <p>Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a respected scientist who serves on a variety of<br />Pentagon committees, says about 1.3 billion people have already been<br />killed, maimed or diseased since the nuclear age started. [7] Is this<br />the Pentagon's purpose for using uranium munitions and rejecting the<br />legally mandated task to treat and clean?</p> <p>Most reasonable people would agree that racking up 1.3 billion people<br />killed or maimed since the beginning of the nuclear age and the<br />American uranium bombing tragedy spreading the gas cloud to Europe and<br />Britain is not the "treat and clean" approach to radioactive warfare<br />set out in the regulations.</p> <p>On the contrary, the Bush radioactive gas cloud is just the opposite.<br />The plain purpose of exposing hundreds of millions of people would<br />seem to be to kill and sicken more people. As a rare Pentagon<br />admission said, "The properties of uranium do not change."</p> <p>Famed former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab scientist Leuren<br />Moret has spoken about the dangers of so-called "depleted uranium" in<br />42 countries. In "Exotic Weapons," the author, radio and film<br />celebrity states, "Since 1991, the continued U.S. military use of<br />dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets threatens humanity and<br />all living things ... and is turning Planet Earth into a death star."<br />[8] [12]</p> <p>Massive carpet bombing of whole countries with uranium bombs appears<br />to be the current war fighting plan of the U.S. military.<br />Unfortunately, U.S. troops are the first to be sacrificed on the altar<br />of the neocon warfare plan for total global domination.</p> <p>As former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry<br />Kissinger said, "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as<br />pawns in foreign policy." [9] American political and military leaders<br />never asked the "pawns" or troops if that was OK.</p> <p>In the authoritative World Affairs Journal, Moret states: "The Korea<br />Times reported on Dec. 23, 2005, that the U.S. military has 2.7<br />million depleted uranium bombs [pre-positioned] in South Korea. It is<br />understandable why North Korea wants nuclear weapons." [10]</p> <p>North Korea is just slightly smaller than the American state of<br />Mississippi. Two million seven hundred uranium bombs is enough to<br />carpet bomb with workhorse Air Force B-52s at the rate of 10 bombs per<br />square mile. Some researchers believe that grid bombing with uranium<br />bombs was used in the American war in the former Yugoslavia. There is<br />clear circumstantial evidence that carpet bombing with genocidal<br />weapons is the preferred response of the American military to local<br />resistance efforts.</p> <p>The San Francisco-based humanitarian and war crimes lawyer Karen<br />Parker states unequivocally that the use of depleted uranium in<br />American/U.K. weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia<br />is a war crime. War crimes are punishable by imprisonment or<br />execution, typically by hanging or a firing squad.</p> <p>America's war criminal class of senior politicians and military<br />leaders has a powerful reason to lie about using genocidal weapons for<br />at least 15 years in Central Asia - their very lives depend on it. In<br />Johnny's Dad's words, the senior leaders are "filthy rotten scum."<br />[16]</p> <p>Upcoming war crimes trial</p> <p>The chief Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor speaks knowingly and<br />directly across more than 50 years to resolutely instruct American<br />citizens on exactly what our duty is today, right now: "Individuals<br />have international duties which transcend the national obligations of<br />obedience … therefore have the duty to violate domestic laws to<br />prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." [11]</p> <p>The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal and is now<br />international law and, by extension, American law. It is our duty as<br />Americans to prevent crimes against peace and humanity. The fascist<br />administration now controlling America and the U.S. military cannot be<br />allowed to continue these crimes. The world and international law<br />holds us all accountable, and the price is dear.</p> <p>It is time to impeach and imprison members of our government for their<br />war crimes commensurate with their degree of complicity and guilt. If<br />the House will not impeach and the Senate will not put them on trial;<br />then we, all 300 million Americans, have a problem.</p> <p>We all are citizens of this country and the world, and, as such, we<br />must acknowledge the incontrovertible evidence of war crimes by the<br />leaders of the American Expeditionary Forces in Iraq with the use of<br />genocidal weapons. Bush and others crossed the line long ago when they<br />lied to get us into the Iraq War.</p> <p>They continue to lie about the damage being done with uranium weapons.<br />One of the comforts history provides us is a road map out of<br />unthinkable situations, to a more or less tenable, workable future.</p> <p>The injured and maimed and families of the dead are due treatment<br />and/or compensation, the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries<br />rebuilt. That is the true legacy of the neocons, the new American<br />Nazis.</p> <p>What people can do</p> <p>Every single day thousands of American military and government workers<br />handle thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes of<br />the American Government's senior political and military leaders.</p> <p>These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in<br />the fascist administration by providing these incriminating papers and<br />the "smoking guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A<br />"paper blizzard" to teach a whole new generation that what's right is<br />right.</p> <p>About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers"<br />that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon.<br />Thousands more pages are needed now.</p> <p>The neocon or neolib papers like the disgraced New York Times or the<br />conservative phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right<br />thing. The timid NYT took almost a year to publish the proof of<br />illegal NSA government spying on American citizens. Bush then bragged<br />about the illegal spying on network prime time television.</p> <p>We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave<br />the president's office.</p> <p>Do what you think best</p> <p>To follow up on these ideas, the following Speaker's Group and<br />individuals are presented to you for your important events. Speaker's<br />fees are required.</p> <p>Writers & Warriors Speakers Group</p> <p>Contact Bob Nichols at <a href="mailto:bob.bobnichols@gmail.com">bob.bobnichols@gmail.com</a> for college<br />distinguished lecture series speakers, commencement speakers, people's<br />events and rallies. Available speakers include Leuren Moret, Dr. Doug<br />Rokke, Dennis Kyne, Karen Parker and Bob Nichols.</p> <p>Topics generally include those of interest in building a positive<br />culture in the midst of a militarized society and items of interest in<br />nuclear warfare.</p> <p>A well known video, "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism," from Dr.<br />Lawrence Britt, Ph.D., Mike Malloy and Eric Bumrich is a great, short<br />video. See <a href="http://www.bushflash.com/14.html">http://www.bushflash.com/14.html</a>. It is only a few minutes<br />long but goes a long way in telling why American leaders embrace the<br />rampant use of genocidal weapons. The "14 Points" video is a great way<br />to start a meeting.</p> <p>The following documents were consulted in the preparation of this essay.</p> <p>1. Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan, "Did the use of uranium weapons<br />in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?" March 1, 2006,<br />"European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics."<br /><a href="http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm">http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm</a></p> <p>2. Dan Fahey's instructions to his secretary, Jack Cohen, for<br />distribution, <a href="mailto:du-list@yahoogroups">du-list@yahoogroups</a>, Feb. 26, 2006, 11:52 p.m.</p> <p>3. Letter to Congessman McDermott, Attachment 2. Declassified memo to<br />general L.R. Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, Oct. 30, 1943.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/93eq9">http://tinyurl.com/93eq9</a></p> <p>4. The Sunday Times, Britain, Feb. 19, 2006, "UK radiation jump blamed<br />on Iraq shells," quoting Dr. Chris Busby.</p> <p>5. Bob Nichols, "Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home," San<br />Francisco Bay View newspaper. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn">http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn</a></p> <p>6. Marion Fulk quoted in the San Francisco Bay View newspaper by<br />Leuren Moret in "Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty<br />bullets - A death sentence here and abroad," Aug 18, 2004.<br /><a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml">http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml</a></p> <p>7. Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., "Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War."<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/gf9dj">http://tinyurl.com/gf9dj</a></p> <p>8. Leuren Moret, "Planet Earth as a Weapon and Target," World Affairs<br />Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2005. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/e6d8v">http://tinyurl.com/e6d8v</a></p> <p>9. Kissinger's quote regarding military men comes from Chapter 14,<br />which extensively discusses Al Haig, Kissinger and other Nixon staff<br />advisors' negotiations and differences over national security issues<br />during the 1969-1974 period. The exact, direct quote marks begin with<br />the word 'dumb' and terminate after the word 'used.' Source: Bob<br />Woodward and Carl Bernstein, "The Final Days," second Touchstone<br />paperback edition (1994), chapter 14, pp. 194-195.</p> <p>10. Leuren Moret.</p> <p>11. War Crimes Watch, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k6xb3">http://tinyurl.com/k6xb3</a></p> <p>12. Documentary "Beyond Treason" with Moret, Rokke and Dennis Kyne.<br /><a href="http://www.beyondtreason.com/">http://www.beyondtreason.com/</a> Documentary "Blowin' in the Wind" with<br />Moret and Rokke. <a href="http://www.bsharp.net.au/">http://www.bsharp.net.au/</a></p> <p>13. Dissent Voice, Bob Nichols. "There Are No Words: Radiation in Iraq<br />equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs ...." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe">http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe</a></p> <p>14. Ward Churchill, "The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History,<br />Justice and Roosting Chickens," Alternative Press Review<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fvhzn">http://tinyurl.com/fvhzn</a></p> <p>15. Army Regulation 700-48 and Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278 can be<br />found easily at the Traprock Peace Site. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/erjue">http://tinyurl.com/erjue</a> and<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/pzcrm">http://tinyurl.com/pzcrm</a> And the regulations themselves,<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kl2r2">http://tinyurl.com/kl2r2</a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/jzha8">http://tinyurl.com/jzha8</a> Adobe .pdf<br />versions are also available for download from Traprock Peace Center.</p> <p>16. "Johnny Got a Gun - Protest Song" by Johnny's Dad. Uranium Weapon<br />Anthem. Distribute freely: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k2zze">http://tinyurl.com/k2zze</a></p> <p>This author won a prized Project Censored Award for an article on<br />depleted uranium munitions in October 2004. The article was titled<br />"There Are No Words." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe">http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe</a> (headlined in the Bay<br />View "Radiation in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs,"<br /><a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/041404/radiationiniraq041404.shtml">http://www.sfbayview.com/041404/radiationiniraq041404.shtml</a>. [13]<br />Turns out that story was but Part One, a thing I never suspected would<br />be so. This article is Part Two and serves as an update for the war<br />fighting activities of the senior American political and military<br />leaders.</p> <p>Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent<br />for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to<br />various on line publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15<br />years of nuclear war in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of<br />the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email.<br />You are encouraged to write <a href="mailto:bob.bobnichols@gmail.com">bob.bobnichols@gmail.com</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml" target="_blank" onfiltered="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#003399"><u>http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml</u></font></a></p> <p><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/lo6pc" target="_blank" onfiltered="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#003399"><u>http://tinyurl.com/lo6pc</u></font></a></b></p> <!-- toctype = X-unknown --><!-- toctype = text --><!-- text --><!-- END TOC -->
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