US MILITARY, PRESIDENT OUT OF CONTROL--WHAT DOES MILDLY RADIOACTIVE MEAN?

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U.S. Military

US Military, President Out of Control -- What Does " Mildly

Radioactive " Mean, Anyway?

By Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner

Feb 17, 2005, 18:23

 

 

 

 

February 18, 2005 -- (Oklahoma, Red State, " Land of the Free " ) The

Russians just recently stopped a weightlifter coming across the

border with about 100 pounds of " highly radioactive depleted

uranium. " The guy said he was using it for dumbbells in weightlifting.

 

 

 

The American Department of Defense and other government departments

all are unanimous in calling so-called depleted uranium " mildly

radioactive depleted uranium. " They like to use it for bombs, shells

and heavy caliber bullets.

 

 

 

Highly radioactive, mildly radioactive, moderately radioactive. What

does it mean? Whom to believe? The godless former Commies or the

brave Iraq-smashing Americans? Decide for yourself. Radioactivity is

a standard property of the metal uranium, used by Americans for

bombs, shells and bullets, and one gram will always give off

12,000 " atomic disintegrations " per second.

 

 

 

This lasts forever, as far as we are concerned. Think of the " atomic

diserntegrations " as little atomic bullets. The kind that are only

harmful from inside the human body. What do you think? Does 12,000

per second rank high or low with you? What if it is in your lung?

 

 

 

Delicate lung cells of 19 year old American troopers and 60-year-old

Iraqi " guerrillas " don't have the ability to " spin " what is turning

them into infection, pus and cancer.

 

 

 

Just so you know, that is 43 million, 200 thousand little bullets per

hour. This nuclear bombardment at the heart of a cell in the lung or

the rest of the body never stops. Of course, the " throwaway soldiers "

will get cancer and die; but, the chicken-hawk Neo-Cons in the Bush

Administration say that is OK! They just don't want to pay for it.

 

 

 

Remember the 100-hour-long First Gulf War? Only an unlucky few were

killed. We Americans used 375 tons of uranium munitions. Out of the

one half million, or so, soldiers in the prime of life in the war,

11,000 are now dead. and hundreds of thousands are on Medical

Disability.

 

 

 

The latest good journalist to " Drink the Government Kool-Aid " was Bob

Evans of the Daily Press in Virginia. Evans used the deceptive

Government term " mildly radioactive " over and over, in his recent

seven-part series on uranium weapons in use by the US Military. In

his effort to be fair, Evans, a respected veteran journalist, never

used the forbidden words " illegal " or " war crimes. " The Daily Press

readership includes a large segment of " retired military. "

 

 

 

Since uranium is a metal that also catches on fire and burns, the

bombs, shells and bullets burn and vaporize when they hit something

hard like a tank, bunker, or building. Uranium gas and smoke ends up

in the nose, throat and lungs of our kids and friends in the US

Military and any unlucky Iraqi around. Some of the gas also hitches a

ride on the desert winds to the rest of the world, including the

American ally, Israel.

 

 

 

This is a real bummer for the American Troopers and the Iraqis.

Uranium by the thousands of tons has been dispersed this way in Iraq

during Gulf War I, the No-Fly Zones era, Gulf War II, the war after

the war, and to this very day. Once the uranium gas and dust is in

their lungs and bodies the soldiers and civilians become radiation

poisoning victims and are forever changed.

 

 

 

There is no way to remove the uranium smoke from the body. It is

radioactive. There is no treatment; there is no cure. This stuff

stays dangerous, lethal even, forever and a day. After all, it is

highly radioact ... err, ... pardon me, " mildly radioactive, " ...

err ... whatever!

 

 

 

Our victimized soldiers don't have forever, though. With the same

absolute certainty of the Atomic Clock the US Government uses to tell

time, the constant ticking of the " atomic disintegrations " (little

bullets) starts the countdown to death from radiation poisoning for

the soldiers and civilians alike. It's just a matter of the dose of

lethal poison they received. A greater dose equals less time.

 

 

 

It gets worse. Captain Terry Riordon unknowingly brought radiation

poisoning home with him from Iraq to his wife, Susan Riordon. As

recounted in the November, 2004 issue of the mainstream Conde Nast

publication Vanity Fair, Mrs. Riordon was constantly burned by her

husband's semen during intercourse.

 

 

 

Seems Terry's semen was turned to a fiery alkali by the radioactive

uranium that settled in his testicles. The happily married couple had

no idea what this new and horrifying complication was in this

intensely private part of their life together. Little did they know

the American Department of Defense had hopped into bed with them with

a deadly intent.

 

 

 

With her husband slowly dying of radiation poisoning and in intense

pain herself, Mrs. Riordon resorted to filling condoms with frozen

green peas to use on herself to obtain relief from the internal

burning's intense, excruciating, lasting pain. Other couples do that

and other wildly frantic and imaginative measures seeking relief. The

burning can leave blisters and contamination.

 

 

 

" It hurt [Terry] too. He said it was like forcing it through barbed

wire, " Riordon says. " It seemed to burn through condoms; if he got

any on his thighs or his testicles, he was in hell. " In a last,

desperate attempt to save their sex life, says Riordon, " I used to

fill condoms with frozen peas and insert them [after sex] with a

lubricant. " That, she says, made her pain just about bearable.

Perhaps inevitably, he became impotent. " And that was like our last

little intimacy gone. "

 

 

 

Children produced from radioactive soldier's couplings have

devastating birth defects; both to war's children born in the United

States and in Iraq. After all, uranium gas is just a dumb radioactive

metal; it does not care one whit about the nationality of the body

parts it targets.

 

 

 

In Iraq, women call the doomed pregnancies the " jelly belly. " The

world simply calls it " Genocide. " That's the purposeful targeting of

a race or ethnic group of people for extermination. That's our red

blooded, By Gawd, All American Policy. Exterminate them! That is one

answer to the question Americans are always indignantly asking " Why

do they hate us so? Haven't we set them free!?! "

 

 

 

Bob Evans, in his series, even inadvertently let a Classified

Specification out of the bag. The 140,000 pound Abrams Main Battle

Tank, a primary dispenser of radioactive, poisonous uranium gas and

dust in Iraq, fires its big gun at a spectacular 2,100 MPH or three

times the speed of sound (MACH III.)

 

 

 

The three foot long solid uranium projectiles then vaporize and burn

at temperatures ranging from an estimated 3,000 to 10,000 degrees as

they penetrate their target. Mr. Evans, guru-like, informs us the

temperature is 5,600 degrees.

 

 

 

What is the difference in " highly radioactive in Russia or " mildly

radioactive " in Virginia? Is it the same metal? Yes, it is. Are both

metals radioactive? Yes! Whether they are in Russia or the United

States, yes, they are: at 12,000 little bullets per second, anywhere

in the known universe! Uranium is our own perverse absolute value.

 

 

 

Well, this is kind of a bummer for all US citizens. President Bush

and the US Military have gone and screwed the pooch. Turns out that

using uranium for weapons is, like, kind of a " Big Time " War Crime.

Not only is it a War Crime, it is a War Crime four different ways,

according to famous UN War Crimes and humanitarian lawyer Karen

Parker, JD.

 

 

 

Parker stated " My 'four-point' test is especially intelligible:

people understand. " It spreads " (beyond the field of battle); " it

lasts " (can't be turned off when the war ends); " it injures people in

impermissible ways " (as in making an as yet unborn child deformed);

and " it harms the environment " .

 

 

 

Ever since we Americans obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

with nuclear weapons in August of 1945, immediately killing an

estimated quarter of a million people, the rest of the world has

taken a really dim view of actually using nuclear weapons.

 

 

 

Uranium bombs, shells and bullets are just different forms of slow-

acting, stealth nuclear weapons. They are slower than the instant big

boom and flash of Nagasaki type Nuclear Weapons - the atom bomb and

hydrogen bomb. They are the answer to the Administration's dedicated

Crusade for the Holy Grail of a " usable " nuclear weapon.

 

 

 

Time has telescoped from 1945 instantly -- past to present; World War

II is just over, and we used nuclear weapons on civilians. Now we are

using the next generation of nuclear weapons on the hapless

guerrillas and civilians of Iraq. They never had a chance. Not a

prayer.

 

 

 

Uranium weapons spread deadly radioactivity that kills and

contaminates forever. Iraq is simply " toast " because of the

indiscriminate, promiscuous and criminal use of millions of pounds of

uranium weapons by our kids and friends in the US Military, at the

command of their political masters. The masters and troopers are war

criminals, and we, the U.S. taxpayers, are accessories to war crimes.

 

 

 

US Military Out of Control - Defies Law

 

 

 

So, what to do? It's all right there, in US Army Regulations,

according to Maj. Doug Rokke, Ph.D. Ret., the former Director of the

Pentagon Depleted Uranium Project. U.S. Army Regulations AR 700-48

and TB 9-1300-278 require the Army to " Clean and Treat. " The Army is

required by US law to treat all persons affected and all areas

contaminated by the radioactive uranium munitions. There are no ifs,

ands, or buts.

 

 

 

The self-claimed right to use war crime weapons carries the with it

big responsibility to clean up after oneself. Refusing to clean up

and treat is purposeful genocide. It is that simple. We are guilty as

sin.

 

 

 

Dennie Williams' breakthrough CommonDreams.org article of November

11, 2004 sets the record straight on the US Military's view of using

and cleaning up after illegal uranium munitions. " The Department of

Defense 'does not clean up DU [depleted uranium weapons] once it

leaves a U.S. weapons system such as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and

hits an enemy building, or vehicle', said Melissa Bohan, an Army

public affairs official. "

 

 

 

The " suits " in the Pentagon can't be anymore clear than that. They

absolutely refuse to treat the people poisoned, including their own

troopers, and refuse to clean up the poisoned radioactive land. The

US Military did the same thing in Vietnam with the chemical Agent

Orange, which was denied and covered up for decades. As one Vietnam

War medic says " Uranium weapons are like Agent Orange on steriods. "

 

 

 

Therefore, the situation is this: the political leadership of the

U.S. decided to secretly use thousands of tons of a genocidal weapon,

uranium, in Iraq. Their servants in the US Military are gung-ho to

irradiate the Iraqis and poison their land, forever, with illegal

uranium-based war crimes weapons. The Army refuses to obey their own

Regulations, that have the force of law, to Clean & Treat, in their

slavish obedience to the sub-human, sick, perverted genocidal desires

of their politically appointed controllers.

 

 

 

 

 

What's wrong with this picture?

 

 

 

This is real Nazi Germany stuff, isn't it? Closer to home, it is

very similar to Andrew Jackson's policy of exterminating Native

Americans. Citizens here in the U.S. may not want to know or accept

that fact, but that is the sleight-of-hand dealt to us mere citizens

in America in 2005 by our corporate-owned and sponsored politicians

and media.

 

 

 

Denying a fact situation does not make it disappear. The facts, and

the thousands of tons of weaponized uranium oxide gas and dust, just

hang in there. This is impossible for supposedly patriotic " My

Country Right or Wrong - Love It or Leave It " type Americans to

explain away.

 

 

 

Uranium is as real as it gets, and it never goes away. As long as

there are congenitally deformed Iraqis left in the world, and until

the Iraqis are finally exterminated by these long-lived genocidal

weapons, they will continue to whisper and croak in whatever voice

left to them: " America Exterminated Me, Punish Them! " and demand

justice.

 

 

 

Americans of all political stripes should be enraged to hear of what

our US Military has done to Iraq. It is not OK, and they should feel

betrayed by the Bush Administration, perhaps especially the center-

right Americans responsible for twice electing Bush. (And the results

of Both elections are still disputed.)

 

 

 

It was real Americans some 60 years ago " The Greatest Generation, " as

network news reader Tom Brokaw called them, in his book of the same

name, who with the Russians, Free French, British and others stomped

the fascist war makers in Germany and their Axis ally Japan in World

War II.

 

 

 

Now the " World's Only Superpower's " American Army has taken the place

of Hitler's Storm Troopers in ruling the modern world. It is

supremely ironic that their own uranium weapons kill them as well as

the " enemy " civilians, as they set out to control. These unthinking

soldiers will ultimately destroy the world, and that seems to be the

desired outcome of Administration's cult like " Rapture Me "

Christofascist radical religious tradition.

 

 

 

In the famous Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, established after World

War II to try Nazi War Criminals and assess their guilt and

punishment, the Chief Prosecutor said of the German people something

that applies directly to Americans today. He speaks knowingly and

directly across more than 50 years of time 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. "

 

 

 

- Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950

 

 

 

The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal. It is now

international law and by extension, U.S. law. It is our duty as

American citizens. The fascist government controlling the United

States and the US Military can no longer be allowed to exist. The

world and international law holds us all accountable, and the price

is dear.

 

 

 

These white-collar criminals must all be impeached and imprisoned 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 have a problem.

 

 

 

We will have to do it ourselves. Additionally, we have to vote out

the co-conspirators in the Senate and the House for refusing to

impeach. That is the law, handed down in 1950 after a disastrous

world-wide war. We Americans must follow the law. It is our sacred

duty. As President Bush likes to say " they [the House and Senate] are

either for us or against us. "

 

 

 

Can we wait till tomorrow, next week, or, next year to impeach?

 

 

 

In a word, " No! "

 

 

 

Leuren Moret, world famous former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons

Lab scientist, said the following in an Email on Valentine's Day,

2005, requesting hundreds of physicists, scientists, professionals,

managers, writers and others to join in the world-wide effort to stop

the current flagrant use of illegal uranium weapons:

 

 

 

" I believe in the end that ... you will comprehend that the amount of

DU [Depleted Uranium] released into the atmosphere since 1991 is far

more than my estimate. Whatever you or I think or differ about, the

disaster is worse than we even know ... but that tale will be told

each year, each decade, each century. Humanity has changed the genome

of the entire planet forever. "

 

 

 

" How can you help us present the disaster in a way that ordinary

people can comprehend? Infant mortality is increasing globally for

the first time in 41 years... "

 

 

 

" This planet is being turned into a death star, " Moret added.

 

 

 

The time to act is now. The Bush Administration controls the big

media on this issue. They do not control you. Tell your friends and

email this article everywhere. As U.S. citizens, as human beings, we

know what we should do, and we know that we cannot afford to wait any

longer.

 

 

 

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