More proof that Bush 41 & 43 are monstrous war criminals

[bunnyhop]

****The whole diabolical business began when daddy Bush dropped 1000 metric tons of Depleted Uranium on Iraq in 1991 contaminating the country with the deadly toxic U238-isotope. This monstrous act has doomed the Iraq people to endless suffering and premature death. Childhood leukemia and spontaneous abortions have become commonplace. According to a UN Sub Commission report, cancer in Iraq since the first Bush gulf war has increased 1000%, and deformities 600%.' Depleted Uranium has rendered Iraqi lands infertile, entered the food chain and contaminated the ground water. With a half-life is 4.5 billion years the Uranium 238 dropped on Iraq by America may plague the Iraqi people for as long as civilization exists, or as long as human beings can inhabit a toxic land.

Boy George, prince of the Neocons or prince of darkness, take your pick, is again dumping America’s nuclear waste on the countries of the middle east, using more DU weapons in Afghanistan than were used in the Gulf War and Balkans combined, according to Dr. Asef Dracovic, discoverer of the 'Gulf War Syndrome'.

America’s bombing of other countries with radioactive waste is possibly the most egregious war crime ever committed. Nothing that Hitler or Stalin did can truly be compared with the endless suffering caused by DU weapons. Not only are Americans participating in the wanton extermination of life, but they are destroying the planet, rendering certain regions of the earth uninhabitable. Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium project and former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University said, 'We can't just use munitions which leave a toxic wasteland behind ****

http://liberty.hypermart.net/Newsletter/3/2_The_Most_Egregious_War_Crime.htm

[OneBlueSky]

1. this is indeed a monstrous war crime . . .

"America’s bombing of other countries with radioactive waste is possibly the most egregious war crime ever committed. Nothing that Hitler or Stalin did can truly be compared with the endless suffering caused by DU weapons. Not only are Americans participating in the wanton extermination of life, but they are destroying the planet, rendering certain regions of the earth uninhabitable."

worthy of impeachment and conviction as a war criminal . . . and it has to happen before he gets a chance to do it again in yet another country (e.g. Iran, Syria, North Korea?) . . .

[Clete]

2. Depleted uranium is used on the

tank killer artillery shells. I did not know this until you posted. This really needs to be condemned far and wide. I am writing to both my senators and representative to protest. I hope others will do so at well. This brings the hypocrisy of the Bush administration and the WMD debate to a whole new level.

[otohara]

3. Maybe It Will Hit Home When US Soldiers

start having those nasty side effects from DU, wives start having miscarriages and deformed babies. Then will it wake up this country of warmongering morans? NAH...the military will deny, hide and spin the facts.

[arcane1]

4. been there done that with Gulf War Syndrome

and as usual, those who cause these ill effects categorically deny they exist

ya know, it took a lot of arm-twisting to get the tobacco companies to admit the dangers of nicotine, (hell they used to sell them for their health benefits!)and I recall the Cattleman's Beef Assoc. handing out 'nutritional guides' in school that unsurprisingly claimed that kids needed red meat at least once a day in order to grow up healthy... same old story, and the military will NEVER fess up to DU on their won

on edit- IIRC, GWS still doesn't 'officially' exist, according to the Pentagon. Only Doctors, Soldiers, and their families claim otherwise. And that was 10 years ago. If they can't tell the truth to "support the troops" then they sure as hell won't tell the truth for the benefit of some Iraqi peasants

bastards

[indepat]

5. May be those of the Religious Right who support and shill for pre-emptive

war, knowing or should have known we use such weapons, might want to pray their God is not just.