BELIEVE WHAT WE SAY - BUT DO NOT DO WHAT WE HAVE DONEAND WILL BE DOING. 10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn't Want You to Talk About + One > > > > >Rev. Jeremiah Wright > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whNE40AwVNo >http://www.policymic.com/articles/62023/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-washington-doesn-t-want-you-to-talk-about >By Wesley Messamore > > >- "Policymic" - Washington doesn't merely lack the legal authority for a >military intervention in Syria. It lacks the moral authority. We're talking >about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent >people far more prolific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad faces from >a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex, bent on stifling further >investigation before striking. > >Here is a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians. >1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from >1962 - 1971 > >Via: AP >During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of >chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands >of Vietnam and neighboring countries, deliberately destroying food supplies, >shattering the jungle ecology, and ravaging the lives of hundreds of thousands >of innocent people. Vietnam estimates that as a result of the decade-long >chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have >been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other >illnesses. In 2012, the Red Cross estimated that one million people in Vietnam >have disabilities or health problems related to Agent Orange. >2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 - 2009 > >Via: AP >White phosphorus is a horrific incendiary chemical weapon that melts human >flesh right down to the bone. >In 2009, multiple human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty >International, and International Red Cross reported that the Israeli >government was attacking civilians in their own country with chemical weapons. >An Amnesty International team claimed to find "indisputable evidence of the >widespread use of white phosphorus" as a weapon in densely-populated civilian >areas. The Israeli military denied the allegations at first, but eventually >admitted they were true. >After the string of allegations by these NGOs, the Israeli military even hit a >UN headquarters(!) in Gazawitha chemical attack. How do you think all this >evidence compares to the case against Syria? Why didn't Obama try to bomb >Israel? >3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004 > >Via: AP >In 2004, journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq began reporting >the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents. First the >military lied and said that it was only using white phosphorus to create >smokescreens or illuminate targets. Then it admitted to using the volatile >chemical as an incendiary weapon. At the time, Italian television broadcaster >RAI aired a documentary entitled, "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre," including >grim video footage and photographs, as well as eyewitness interviews with >Fallujah residents and U.S. soldiers revealing how the U.S. government >indiscriminately rained white chemical fire down on the Iraqi city and melted >women and children to death. >4. The CIA Helped Saddam Hussein Massacre Iranians and Kurds with Chemical >Weapons in 1988 > >CIA records now prove that Washington knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical >weapons (including sarin, nerve gas, and mustard gas) in the Iran-Iraq War, >yet continued to pour intelligence into the hands of the Iraqi military, >informing Hussein of Iranian troop movements while knowing that he would be >using the information to launch chemical attacks. At one point in early 1988, >Washington warned Hussein of an Iranian troop movement that would have ended >the war in a decisive defeat for the Iraqi government. By March an emboldened >Hussein with new friends in Washington struck a Kurdish village occupied by >Iranian troops with multiple chemical agents, killing as many as 5,000 people >and injuring as many as 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more >died in the following years from complications, diseases, and birth defects. >5. The Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis >Neighborhoods in The 1950s > >In the early 1950s, the Army set up motorized blowers on top of residential >high-rises in low-income, mostly black St. Louis neighborhoods, including >areas where as much as 70% of the residents were children under 12. The >government told residents that it was experimenting with a smokescreen to >protect the city from Russian attacks, but it was actually pumping the air >full of hundreds of pounds of finely powdered zinc cadmium sulfide. The >government admits that there was a second ingredient in the chemical powder, >but whether or not that ingredient was radioactive remains classified. Of >course it does. Since the tests, an alarming number of the area's residents >have developed cancer. In 1955, Doris Spates was born in one of the buildings >the Army used to fill the air with chemicals from 1953 - 1954. Her father died >inexplicably that same year, she has seen four siblings die from cancer, and >Doris herself is a survivor of cervical cancer. >6. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011 > >The savage violence of the police against Occupy protesters in 2011 was well >documented, and included the use of tear gas and other chemical irritants. >Tear gas is prohibited for use against enemy soldiers in battle by the >Chemical Weapons Convention. Can't police give civilian protesters in Oakland, >California the same courtesy and protection that international law requires >for enemy soldiers on a battlefield? >7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993 > >At the infamous Waco siege of a peaceful community of Seventh Day Adventists, >the FBI pumped tear gas into buildings knowing that women, children, and >babies were inside. The tear gas was highly flammable and ignited, engulfing >the buildings in flames and killing 49 men and women, and 27 children, >including babies and toddlers. Remember, attacking an armed enemy soldier on a >battlefield with tear gas is a war crime. What kind of crime is attacking a >baby with tear gas? >8. The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003 > >Via: AP >In Iraq, the U.S. military has littered the environment with thousands of tons >of munitions made from depleted uranium, a toxic and radioactive nuclear waste >product. As a result, more than half of babies born in Fallujah from 2007 - >2010 were born with birth defects. Some of these defects have never been seen >before outside of textbooks with photos of babies born near nuclear tests in >the Pacific. Cancer and infant mortality have also seen a dramatic rise in >Iraq. According to Christopher Busby, the Scientific Secretary of the European >Committee on Radiation Risk, "These are weapons which have absolutely >destroyed the genetic integrity of the population of Iraq." After authoring >two of four reports published in 2012 on the health crisis in Iraq, Busby >described Fallujah as having, "the highest rate of genetic damage in any >population ever studied." >9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with >Napalm from 1944 - 1945 > >Napalm is a sticky and highly flammable gel which has been used as a weapon of >terror by the U.S. military. In 1980, the UN declared the use of napalm on >swaths of civilian population a war crime. That'sexactlywhat the U.S. military >didin World War II, dropping enough napalm in one bombing raid on Tokyo to >burn 100,000 people to death, injure a million more, and leave a million >without homes in the single deadliest air raid of World War II. >10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945 > >Although nuclear bombs may not be considered chemical weapons, I believe we >can agree they belong to the same category. They certainly disperse an awful >lot of deadly radioactive chemicals. They are every bit as horrifying as >chemical weapons if not more, and by their very nature, suitable for only one >purpose: wiping out an entire city full of civilians. It seems odd that the >only regime to ever use one of these weapons of terror on other human beings >has busied itself with the pretense of keeping the world safe from dangerous >weapons in the hands of dangerous governments. > P.S. I would like to add that the use of SMALLPOX blankets by the US against native Americans is well known. Oh! Those were BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, not CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Sorry! I guess that makes them Okay. Romi
