In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
What 2 Bushes and the Pentagon neglected to tell us about the Gulf Wars
Remember Gulf War Syndrome, and the Pentagon's reaction to it as "stress"? Remember how before the current invasion, men were freezing their sperm before being shipped over? Remember how a few weeks ago we began to hear that the same thing was happening again?
For the record, in the Gulf War in 1991 we nuked Iraq with depleted uranium and it's wiping out their population. Iraq today is essentially what Hiroshima was after August 1945. They don't know how (and haven't had the means, on account of the embargo) to decontaminate, and the cancers have skyrocketed. Here's a quote from the U.S. army physicist responsible for cleaning up Kuwait, Professor Doug Rokke:
"I am like many people in southern Iraq. I have 5,000 times the recommended level of radiation in my body. The contamination was right throughout Iraq and Kuwait. With the munitions testing and preparation in Saudi Arabia, uranium contamination covers the entire region. The effect depends on whether a person inhaled it or ingested it by eating and drinking, or if they got it in an open wound. What we're seeing now, respiratory problems, kidney problems, cancers, are the direct result of the use of this highly toxic material. The controversy over whether or not it's the cause is a manufactured one; my own ill-health is testament to that.... In the Gulf War, well over 300 tons [of depleted uranium] were fired. An A-10 Warthog attack aircraft fired over 900,000 rounds. Each individual round was 300 grams of solid uranium 238. When a tank fired its shells, each round carried over 4,500 grams of solid uranium. These rounds are not coated, they're not tipped; they're solid uranium. Moreover, we have evidence to suggest that they were mixed with plutonium. What happened in the Gulf was a form of nuclear warfare."
--from John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World, pp. 56-57
Bush didn't lie. There certainly are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the United States is deploying them.
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