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Death by Slow Burn

 

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Death By Slow Burn -

How America Nukes Its Own Troops

What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means

By Amy Worthington - The Idaho Observer

 

On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign:

" Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945! " That's exactly what George Bush has

done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.

 

Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU)

weapons, a " liberation " gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a

component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers need

radiation protection gear.

 

Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste into much

of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are

capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.(1) Tomahawk missiles

launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.(2) The M1 Abrams tanks are

armored with DU.(3) These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed

with DU shells, which continually irradiate troops in or near them.(4) The A-10

" tank buster " aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the

battlefield.(5)

 

DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons of

mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and

conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary

suffering.

 

Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in Iraq.

Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as they slowly and

painfully succumb to radiation poisoning. U.S and British troops deployed to the

area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout

zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability.

Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain,

unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and premature

death await those exposed to DU.

 

Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: " As the last Gulf conflict so

savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses of

experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to chemical

weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect repellent and radiation

leftover from the last war. This is a war even the victors will lose. " (6)

 

When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of

plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive

dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation

indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the

entire immune system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.(7)

 

The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield soldiers

who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within

days.(8) Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is

not breathing. In the first two weeks of combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of

$1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi real estate into radioactive mushroom

clouds.(9) Millions of DU tank rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible

because there is no place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.

 

Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of depleted uranium were

used against Iraq in 1991.(10) A 1998 report by the U.S. Agency for Toxic

Substances confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms identical to those claimed

by many sick vets with Gulf War Syndrome.(11) The Gulf War Veterans Association

reports that at least 300,000 Gulf War I vets have now developed incapacitating

illnesses.(12) To date, 209,000 vets have filed claims for disability benefits

based on service-connected injuries and illnesses from combat in that war.(13)

 

Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at Georgetown University, is

a former army medical expert. He told nuclear scientists in Paris last year that

tens of thousands of sick British and American soldiers are now dying from

radiation they encountered during Gulf War I. He found that 62 percent of sick

vets tested have uranium isotopes in their organs, bones, brains and urine.(14)

Laboratories in Switzerland and Finland corroborated his findings.

 

In other studies, some sick vets were found to be expressing uranium in even

their semen. Their sexual partners often complained of a burning sensation

during intercourse, followed by their own debilitating illnesses.(15)

 

Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and birth defects suffered by

the Iraqi people who have endured vicious nuclear chastisement for years.(16)

U.S. air attacks against Iraq since 1993 have undoubtedly employed nuclear

munitions. Pictures of grotesquely deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are

overwhelming.(17) Like those born to Gulf War I vets, many babies born to troops

now in Iraq will also be afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage

and/or blood and respiratory disorders.(18)

 

As an Army health physicist, Dr. Doug Rokke was dispatched to the Middle East to

salvage DU-contaminated tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger counters revealed

that the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were contaminated with up to 300 millirems

an hour in beta and gamma radiation plus thousands to millions of counts per

minute in alpha radiation. Rokke recently told the media: " The whole area is

still trashed. It is hotter than heck over there still. This stuff doesn't go

away. " (19)

 

DU remains " hot " for 4.5 billion years. Radiation expert Dr. Helen Caldicott

confirms that the dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war zones " will remain

effectively radioactive for the rest of time. " (20) The murderous dust storms

which ensnared coalition troops during the first few days of the current

invasion are sure to have significant health consequences.

 

Rokke and his cleanup team were issued only flimsy dust masks for their

dangerous work. Of the 100 people on Rokke's decontamination team, 30 have

already " dropped dead. " Rokke himself is ill with radiation damage to lungs and

kidneys. He has brain lesions, skin pustules, chronic fatigue, continual

wheezing and painful fibromyalgia. Rokke warns that anyone exposed to DU should

have adequate respiratory protection and special coveralls to protect their

clothing because, he says, you can't get uranium particles off your clothing.

 

The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is not a problem. Colonel

James Naughton of the U.S. Army Material Command recently told the BBC that

complaints about DU " had no medical basis. " (21) The military's own documents

belie this. A 1993 Pentagon document warned that " when soldiers inhale or ingest

DU dust they incur a potential increase in cancer risk. " (22) A U.S. Army

training manual requires anyone who comes within 25 meters of DU-contaminated

equipment to wear respiratory and skin protection.(23) The U.S. Army

Environmental Policy Institute admitted: " If DU enters the body, it has the

potential to generate significant medical consequences. " (24) The Institute also

stated that, if the troops were to realize what they had been exposed to, " the

financial implications of long-term disability payments and healthcare costs

would be excessive. " (25) For pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.

 

Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU dangers and is criminally

negligent for neglecting medical attention needed by DU-contaminated vets. He

predicts that the numbers of American troops to be sickened by DU from Gulf War

II will be staggering.(26) As they gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn to

their graves, the Pentagon will, as it did after Gulf War I, deny that their

misery and death is a result of their tour in Iraq.

 

Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr. Durakovic's radiation

studies on Gulf War I vets were not popular with U.S. officials. Dr. Durakovic

was reportedly told his life was in danger if he continued his research. He left

the U.S. to continue his research abroad.(27)

 

Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely unaware of how deadly

their battlefield environment is. Gulf War I troops were kept in ignorance.

Soldiers handled DU fragments and some wore these lethal nuggets around their

necks. A DU projectile emits more radiation in five hours than allowed in an

entire year under civilian radiation exposure standards. " We didn't know any

better, " Kris Kornkven told Nation magazine. " We didn't find out until long

after we were home that there even was such a thing as DU. " (28)

 

George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a nuclear war. Shortly after

9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear weapons including

small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited to commando warfare in

Afghanistan.(29) In late September, 2001, Bush and Russian president Vladimir

Putin agreed that the U.S. would use tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan

while Putin would employ nuclear weapons against the Chechnyans.(30)

 

Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith writes in

the Village Voice: " Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing for smashing

through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the force of an estimated

340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of bang for the buck, literally two apocalypse

bombs in one, a boosted plutonium firecracker called the primary and a heavy

hydrogen secondary for that good old-fashioned H-bomb fireball. " (31)

 

Drought-stricken Afghanistan's underground water supply is now contaminated by

these nuclear weapons.(32) Experts with the Uranium Medical Research Center

report that urine samples of Afghanis show the highest level of uranium ever

recorded in a civilian population. Afghani soldiers and civilians are reported

to have died after suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory problems,

internal bleeding and other symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Dead

birds still perched in trees are found partially melted with blood oozing from

their mouths.(33)

 

Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, is a puppet installed by Washington.

Under the protection of American soldiers, Karzai's regime is setting a new

record for opium production. Both UN and U.S. reports confirm that the huge

Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes Afghanistan the world's leading opium

producer.(34) Thanks to nuclear weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the

Bush-Cheney narcotics industry.(35) ABC News asserts that keeping the " peace " in

Afghanistan will require decades of allied occupation.(36) For years to come,

" peacekeepers " will be eating, drinking and breathing the " hot " carcinogenic

pollution they have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for organized

crime.

 

As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill Clinton laundered

$multi-millions in cocaine profits for then vice-president George Bush Sr.(37)

As a partner in the Bush family's notorious crime machine, President Clinton

committed U.S. troops to NATO's campaign in the Balkans, a prime heroin

production and trans-shipment area. DOD's campaign to control and reorganize the

drug trade there for the Bush mafia was yet another nuclear project.

 

For years, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and shells across the

Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. As DU munitions were

slammed into chemical plants, the environment became hideously toxic, also

endangering the peoples of Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and

Hungary. By 1999, UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU had

caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with agriculture,

livestock and air water, and public health all profoundly damaged.(38)

 

Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium in their

urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that hundreds of Bosnians

have died of cancer from NATO's DU bombardment.(40) Many NATO peacekeepers in

the Balkans now suffer ill health. Their leukemias, cancers and other maladies

are dubbed the " Balkans Syndrome. " Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used

in Balkans campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal cancer.(41)

 

U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for criminal militarism gone

mad. DOD is a pollution monster. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found 9,181

dangerous military sites in USA that will require $billions to rehabilitate. The

GAO reports that DOD has been both slothful and deceitful in its clean-up

obligations.(42) The Pentagon is now pressing Congress to exempt it from all

environmental laws so that it may pollute and poison free from liability.(43)

 

The Navy uses prime fishing grounds off the coast of Washington state to test

fire DU ammunition. In January, Washington State Rep. Jim McDermott chastised

the Navy: " On one hand you have required soldiers to have DU safety training and

to wear protective gear when handling DU...and submarines must stay clear of

DU-contaminated waters. These policies indicate there is cause for concern....On

the other hand the Department of Defense has repeatedly denied that DU poses any

danger whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons of DU equipment

in the soil in foreign countries, and there appears to be no remorse about

leaving it in the waters of your own country. " (44)

 

DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in Indiana, Florida, New Mexico,

Massachusetts, Maryland and Puerto Rico. After the Navy tested DU weaponry on

the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third of the island's population

developed serious illness. Many people show high levels of uranium in their

bodies. Hundreds have filed a class action suit against the Navy for $100

million, claiming DU contamination has caused widespread cancers.(45)

 

The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada, is a quagmire of 26

toxic waste sites. It is also a target practice zone for DU bombs and missiles.

Area residents report bizarre illnesses, including 17 children who have

contracted leukemia within five years. A survey of groundwater in the Fallon

area showed nearly half of area wells are contaminated with radioactive

materials.(46)

 

The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly at three nuclear plants

in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where workers handling uranium contaminated

with plutonium have suffered for decades with cancers and debilitating maladies

similar to Gulf War Syndrome.(47)

 

Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by his administration's

devious 9-11 project, President Bush asserts that the U.S. has the right to

attack any nation it deems a potential threat. He told West Point in 2002, " If

we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. " (48)

Thus, it is certain that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are lined

up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's Halliburton Corp. and the Bush

family's Carlyle Group are profiteers in U.S. defense contracts, so endless war

is just good business.(49)

 

The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will create special nuclear

weapons for use on North Korea's underground nuclear facilities.(50) Next

August, U.S. war makers will meet to consolidate plans for a new generation of

" mini, " " micro " and " tiny " nuclear bombs and bunker busters. These will be added

to the U.S. arsenal perhaps for use against non-nuclear third-world nations such

as Iran, Syria, Lebanon.(51)

 

The solution? Americans must stop electing ruthless criminals to rule this

nation. We must convince fellow citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein are

made in the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits. Saddam was

placed in power by the CIA.(52) For years U.S. government agencies, under

auspices of George Bush Sr., supplied him with chemical and biological

weapons.(53) Our national nuclear laboratories, along with Unisys, Dupont and

Hewlett-Packard, sold Saddam materials for his nuclear program.(54) Dick Cheney

was CEO of Halliburton in the late 90s when its subsidiaries signed $73 million

in new contracts to further supply Saddam.(55) The wicked villain of Iraq was

nurtured for decades as a cash-cow by U.S. military-industrial piranhas.

 

If America truly supports its troops, it must stop sending them into nuclear

holocaust for the enrichment of thugs. Time is running out. If the DU-maniacs at

the Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms peddlers are not harnessed, America

will have no able-bodied fighting forces left. All people of the earth will

become grossly ill, hideously deformed and short- lived. We must succeed in the

critical imperative to face reality and act decisively. Should we fail, there

will be no place to hide from Bush-Cheney's merciless nuclear orgies yet to come

or from the inevitable nuclear retaliation these orgies will surely breed.

 

Endnotes

 

1. " DOD Launches Depleted Uranium Training, " Linda Kozaryn, American Forces Press

Service, 8-13-99.

 

2. " Nukes of the Gulf War, " John Shirley, Zess. See this article in

archives at www.gulfwarvets.com.

 

3. BBC News, " US To Use Depleted Uranium, " March 18, 2003; U.S. General

Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: " Early Performance Assessment of

Bradley and Abrams, " 1-2-92.

 

4. " Nukes of the Gulf War, " op. cit.

 

5. Ibid.

 

6. " Invading Hiroshima, " William Thomas, 2-4-2003, www.willthomas.net

 

7. " US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy, " Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also " Radiation

Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium, "

www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02.

 

8. " Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days, " Rob Edwards, New Scientist.com,

3-12-02; also " Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle, " Rob Edwards, New

Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99.

 

9. " Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks, " David Rennie in Washington, Telegraph

Group Limited, 1-4-03, news.telegraph.co.uk.

 

10. " Going Nuclear in Iraq--DU Cancers Mount Daily, " Ramzi Kysia,

CounterPunch.org, 12-31-01.

 

11. " Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread, " Peter Beaumont,

The Observer (UK) 1-14-01, www.guardianlimited.co.uk.

 

12. " Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets, " Ellen Tomson, Pioneer Press,

www.pioneerplanet.com. See also American Gulf War Veterans Association at

www.gulfwarvets.com.

 

13. " 2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability: 209,000 Make VA Claims, "

World Net Daily, 1-28-03, WorldNetDaily.com.

 

14. " Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, " New York Times, 1-29-01; " Tests Show

Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning, " Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin

Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.

 

15. " Catastrophe: Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated Partners With DU, " The Halifax

Herald Limited, Clare Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is available in archives at

www.rense.com.

 

16. " Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium, " Seattle Post-

Intelligencer, 11-12-02; " US Depleted Uranium Yields Chamber of Horrors in

Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent (London) 12-4-01.

 

17. " The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf War Region with

Special References to Iraq, " Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms Control Research Centre,

May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth Defects in Iraq at

www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html.

 

18. " The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our Country Abandoned Them?, " Life

Magazine, November 1995; " Birth Defects Killing Gulf War Babies, " Los Angeles

Times, 11-14-94; " Depleted Uranium, The Lingering Poison, " Alex Kirby, BBC News

Online, 6-7-99.

 

19. " Depleted Uranium, A Killer Disaster, " Travis Dunn, Disaster News.net,

12-29-02.

 

20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.

 

21. " US To Use Depleted Uranium, " BBC News, 3-18-03.

 

22. " Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread, " Peter Beaumont,

The Observer (UK) 1-14-01.

 

23. " Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium, " Seattle Post-

Intelligencer, 11-12-02.

 

24. " US To Use Depleted Uranium, " BBC News, 3-18-03.

 

25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental

Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report, June 1995.

 

26. " Pentagon Depleted Uranium No Health Risk, " Dr. Doug Rokke, 3-15-03; also

" The Terrible, Tragic Toll of Depleted Uranium, " Address by Dr. Rokke before

congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.,12-30-02; also " Gulf War Casualties, "

Dr. Doug Rokke, www.traprockpeace.org. 9-30-02.

 

27. " Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning, " Sunday Times (UK),

Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.

 

28. " The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An Investigative Report, " Bill Mesler,

The Nation, 5-28-99, see www.thenation.com/ issue/961021/1021mesl.htm.

 

29. " Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan, " World Net Daily, 10-7-01. 30.

Ibid.

 

31. " The B-61 Bomb,The Burrowing Nuke " George Smith,VillageVoice.com 12-29-02.;

also " Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs, Nowhere to Hide, " Kennedy Grey,

Wired.com, 10-9-01.

 

32. " Perpetual Death From America, " Mohammed Daud Miraki, Afghan-American

Interviews, 2-24-03; also " Dying of Thirst, " Fred Pearce, New Scientist,

11-17-2001.

 

33. Ibid.

 

34. " Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer, " Agence

France-Presse, 3-01-03. This article is at www.copvcia.com.;also " Opium Trade

Flourishing In the `New Afghanistan,' " Reuters, 3-3-03.

 

35. " The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire, " Michael C. Ruppert, Nexus Magazine,

February-March 2000; The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug

Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co., revised edition due May 2003;

Drugging of America, Rodney Stich, Diablo Western Press, 1999; " Blood for Oil,

Drugs for Arms, " Bob Djurdjevic, Truth In Media, April 2000,

www.truthinmedia.org. 36. ABC News, February 27, 2003.

 

37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and John Cummings, S.P.I.

Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles and The Mena Cover-up, Citizens for Honest

Government, 1996; " The Crimes of Mena, Grey Money, " Ozark Gazette, 1995 (see

www.copvcia.com.)

 

38. " Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says a UN Report, " Bob

Djurdjevic, 7-4-99, truthinmedia.org. This report was submitted to the UN

Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, " New Depleted Uranium Study Shows Clear

Damage, " BBC News,8-28-99; also " NATO Issued Warning About Toxic Ammo, "

Associated Press, 01-08-01.

 

39. CounterPunch.org, 12-28-01.

 

40. " Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing--Doctor, " Reuters, 1-13-01.

 

41. " Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer Epidemic, " BBC News, 7-30-99.

 

42. " Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous, " Associated Press, 9-24-02; also Old US

Weapons Called Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-02.

 

43. " Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea, " Andrew Gumbel in

L.A., 3-13-03, Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.

 

44. " Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish Areas, " Seattle Post-Intelligencer,

1-11-03; Letter from Rep. McDermott to Department of the Navy: see " Navy Fired

DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of Washington, " 1-20-03, rense.com.

 

45. " Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On `Enchanted Island,' "

www.telegraph.co.uk, 2-5-01; also " Navy Shells With Depleted Uranium Fired in

Puerto Rico, " Fox News Online, 5-28-99.

 

46. " The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy Bombing, " Jeffrey St. Clair,

CounterPunch.org, 8-10-02.

 

47. " DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal Cocktail of Nuclear Waste, "

Jonathon Carr-Brown, www.sunday-times.co.uk, 1-22-01.

 

48. " Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent, " Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers,

3-20-03.

 

49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House, 2003 (New York Times

best seller.); also " The Best Enemies Money Can Buy, From Hitler to Saddam

Hussein to Osama bin Laden Insider Connections and the Bush Family's Partnership

With Killers of Americans; " Mike Ruppert, From the Wilderness,10-10-01; also

" Bush Sr.'s Carlyle Group Gets Fat on War and Conflict, " Jamie Doward, The

Observer (UK), 3-25-03; also " Halliburton Wins Contract for Iraq Oil

Firefighting, Reuters, 3-7-03; also " Cashing In-Fortunes in Profits Await Bush

Circle After Iraq War, Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-02; also

" War Could Be Big Business for Halliburton, " Reuters, 3-23-03.

 

50. " Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger, " Washington Post, March 10, 2003.

 

51. " Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking Office, " Neil Mackay, The

Sunday Herald (UK) 3-27-03; also " US Mini-Nukes Alarm Scientists, " The Guardian

(UK) 4-18-01; also " US Nuclear First-Strike Plan--It Keeps Getting Scarier,

Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review, 2-24-03.

 

52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the Baath Party and

installed Hussein as Iraqi dictator in 1968.

 

53. " United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of

Persian Gulf War Veterans, " Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban

Affairs, 1992, 1994; " U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup, " Washington Post,

12-30-02.

 

54. " US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped Iraq Build Its WMD, " Hugh

Williamson in Berlin, Financial Times, 12-19-02; " Full List of US Weapons

Suppliers To Iraq, " Anu de Monterice, coachanu, 12-19-02.

 

55. Huffington, op. cit.

 

Amy Worthington is a reporter for The Idaho Observer

 

 

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