THE UNITED STATES USED DEPLETED URANIUM (DU)
WEAPONS IN IRAQ..EXTENSIVE FUTURE DAMAGE TO
IT’S OWN TROUPS
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 clean-up 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 jetson 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, [email protected]. 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,
[email protected],
12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op. cit.
Amy Worthington is a reporter for The Idaho Observer
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