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My God! My Country Is Using Poison Gas In Iraq: We’ve Weaponized Uranium Gas

by Open-Publishing - Monday 9 August 2004

Nuclear Wars and conflicts International

by Bob Nichols

Radioactive, poison gas made from uranium was recommended to the American Military
in 1943 during World War II by atom bomb builders working on the Manhattan Project
run by Gen Leslie
Groves.

Sixty-one years later deadly, radioactive, poisonous, weaponized uranium oxide
gas plays a vital role in implementing the "Total Worldwide Domination Plan" as
practiced by the NeoCons and President Bush. It is entitled "Rebuilding America’s
Defenses" and was written in September 2000 by the neo-con
think tank, Project
for the New American Century
(PNAC).

That would be the American government’s Cheney and the Pentagon’s Rumsfield,
Wolfowitz,
and Feith, the most hated men in the world, the Gang of Four.

What is weaponized uranium oxide gas? It’s any high velocity bullet or shell,
any High Explosive Bomb or missile made with uranium metal. The uranium components
turn into uranium oxide gas after the high velocity bullet or shell penetrates
anything solid and explodes, as much as 80% of it ignites, burns, and aerosolizes
into tiny, tiny radioactive pieces and floats in the air as a gas, blown about
by the wind. They can stay airborne for years and be re-suspended for years,
over and over again.

Missiles and bombs that explode as planned are blasted into uranium gas by the
bomb’s high explosive (HE). Pretty simple really. Once the uranium metal is worked
into the business end of a bullet, tank shell, bomb, or missile the uranium oxide
gas is "weaponized," and ready to go.

The feedstock uranium that’s manufactured into war munitions is processed one
time to purify it. Less than one half of one percent, a tiny impurity, is removed
to make thermonuclear bombs and nuclear reactor cores. This leaves more than
99.8% of the uranium for bullets and bombs.

The uranium is fully 88% as radioactive as it was before it was processed. The
Gang of Four cynically calls this uranium "depleted" as if everything is OK with
it; it is safe; it has been depleted; there is no problem with it. No Problem!
To top it off and make it worse, America’s academics dutifully talk about and
study "Depleted Uranium,"* at retreats and seminars thus keeping
the Big Lie alive for the millions of common folk who long for some straight
answers from academe.

This so-called Depleted Uranium is what the American government is using to make
sniper bullets, tank shells, bombs, and cruise missiles. And, the American government
just ordered some more depleted uranium weapons. It only takes a few months to
re-arm. Who’s next? Iran? Syria?

The 70-ton 1,500 HP workhorse M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks actually deliver
up to eight pounds of poisonous uranium oxide gas per high velocity shell fired.
The Abrams Death Machines fired many thousands of the 10-pound uranium "penetrator" rods
during the Gulf Rape of Iraq turkey shoot. They are fully 18 inches long and
3/4 inch wide. That’s the real name, too, "penetrator rods." It’s
an Abu Ghraib for the entire country.

But, using uranium munitions is a War Crime. As Vice President Cheney
would say "Big Time!" That would be a major problem for less dedicated countries
than the United States. That is not a showstopper for Bush, the NeoCons, or the
American military. The Military is taught to refuse to follow orders that embrace
War Crimes because they aren’t legal. They failed
America and the entire world.

The American President (Bush) stated that the International Criminal Court’s
(Re: War Crimes) jurisdiction does not apply to America’s leaders or the Military.
Presidential Translation: Go for it, dudes! Result: 4,000,000 pounds of uranium
munitions poisoned Iraq with radioactive gas and dust rendering large parts of
it uninhabitable. We Americans have already successfully
killed Iraqis as yet unborn with radiation induced birth defects and cancers.
This same uranium oxide gas, of course, is also sickening and killing our kids
and friends in the Army in Iraq.

Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, former Chief of Staff of the Indian Navy, calculated
that the radiation in 4,000,000 pounds of uranium is the equivalent of that in
250,000 unexploded Nagasaki Plutonium Bombs. (1) That would be the Bomb the US
dropped on Nagasaki, Japan three days after the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
August 6, 1945. This current Iraq Nuclear Radiation War was announced in the
United States by the article "There
Are No Words
" by this writer on DissidentVoice.org on March 27, 2004. (2)

My God! Have the Gang of Four no humanity? Are they some kind of unfeeling
Aliens from a Hollywood horror movie? The invisible, odorless, tasteless uranium
oxide poison gas in the air can’t be controlled or even seen! It’s as dangerous
to our kids and neighbors in the Army shooting it as it is to the "enemy" Iraqis.
What’s more, it migrates with the wind. This means it will soon be in all countries
within 1,000 miles of Iraq. This includes America’s ally, the state of Israel.

Nazi Germany had the political will in WWII to commit war crimes. The Germans
finally settled on Zyklon B Gas to exterminate six million Jews during the cruel
reign of the Third Reich. Zyklon B was "effective" but lacked
a long "killing trail." After Jews in the gas chamber or mobile van were
killed, the deadly gas was withdrawn and the corpses removed from the chamber
or van. Nazi SS soldiers were required to dispense more Zyklon B to the next
killing cluster. Effective killer, short killing trail.

Well, America is nothing if not relentless. Specifically, a 1943 memo to Gen
Groves recommended uranium oxide gas be used as a gas warfare instrument to Kill
People and to Contaminate Land. The memo did raise the problem that the radioactive
uranium gas could not be controlled and was, and is still, dangerous to our own
kids and friends: the American Troopers. (3) It would be another thirty years
before that hurdle was publicly demolished.

In 1973 in General Alexander Haig’s presence, Henry Kissinger, the National Security
Advisor, referred pointedly to military men as "dumb,
stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. (4) Kissinger set the
public stage for the war managers to sacrifice the gullible, but patriotic
and "stupid" American Troopers to the use of weaponized uranium oxide gas. American
General Norman Schwarzkopf from the First Gulf War stated they were not told
anything about harmful uranium munitions.

Uranium gas also is a good deal for the Bush Administration because it has built
in plausible deniability. Depending on the uranium gas dose the American Troopers
get, they can be expected to sicken and die over a period days, months, and years.
There is no minimum dose that is harmless. Inhaling as little as one gram over
a year means the equivalent of one X-Ray per hour for the rest of their shortened
life. Each gram in the lung shoots 12,000 little bullets per minute, forever,
at the lung cells next to it. What do you think is going to happen to the lung
cells. All radiation counts.

The ensuing Veteran’s Administration disability payment requests can be denied
for years while the "dumb, stupid," used up vets conveniently and obligingly
die off. The former American Trooper’s painful deaths go virtually unnoticed
scattered across the North American continent in some 7,000 American hospitals
and among 300 Million people.

Collaborating VA doctors merely chant, "You can’t prove it," when confronted
by hundreds of thousands of sick and dying Troopers. Anyway, all the well-paid
NeoCon or timid doctors need do is delay. The invisible, deadly, ever-present
radiation does the rest.

To say the least, the American Military and their wealthy helpmates in the private
weapons industry have resolutely and definitively solved the Nazi killing
trail
problem. Weaponized Uranium Oxide Gas, when used properly, packs a
killing trail up to a truly majestic 4.5 Billion years. In fact, that pretty
well qualifies as "forever" in most American classrooms studying "Total Worldwide
Domination Theory."

Instinctively racist in nature, the political decision makers, Bush and the NeoCons
with a supporting crew of weak minded Democrats, decided that the Iraqi race had
to go. It’s an inescapable conclusion to any fair minded person contemplating
the purposeful use of Four Million pounds of uranium on Iraq. That’s cold blooded
genocide.

Get a group of your friends together some lazy Sunday afternoon and appoint yourselves
as a Pentagon Procurement Committee. Would you choose uranium munitions for our
Troopers to use in Iraq?

Put
your own ending to this article here.


A lot of people in the States have done everything we can think of to stop these
nuclear radiation wars, uranium poison gas, and the the use of uranium as a munition.
We’ve tried and failed for years. Failed! There are no excuses for our collective
failures. Why don’t you give it a try?
Can’t hurt anything! View this Flash animation, "Poison Fire
USA," by Russell Hoffman to see the animated history of 60 years of major nuclear
activities in the continental United States. It will amaze you. These events
all lead up to recklessly using
uranium munitions in Iraq. [www.animatedsoftware.com/poifu/poifu.swf ]

For further expert scientific information read former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab scientist Leuren Moret’s: "Depleted
Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
."

Do you have a solution? Then write what steps you would take to turn this situation
around. If you represent your country at the United Nations General Assembly,
be creative. Who else is going to stop the United States from committing genocide?
Send it to me at this address. I’ll publish it, as appropriate, and maybe we
all can make it happen. info-radiation-wars@cox.net

* Depleted Uranium is the result of a step in the process of
creating enriched uranium for nuclear power plant reactor cores and thermonuclear
bombs, commonly called Hydrogen Bombs and Neutron Bombs. The uranium impurity
used in bombs and reactor cores is about .711 percent of one percent of natural
uranium, a tiny amount. Like iodine in salt, except it kills everything. Processing
natural uranium removes about half of the bomb making material. It is then called
Depleted Uranium by the powers that be because it can no longer be used to make
bombs; but, it is used to make bullets and shells instead. The Depleted Uranium
is fully 88% as radioactive in total radiation as the original uranium. There
are an estimated 1.5 Billion Pounds of Depleted Uranium at U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Labs and related facilities (Bomb Factories) in the US. The word depleted does
not mean the uranium is safe or OK to use, it means it has been processed, that’s
all. Perhaps a less deceptive name would be "12% depleted uranium." The familiar
60% depleted uranium figure refers to what is called "Alpha" radiation only.

Bob Nichols writes in Oklahoma City and is occasionally a contributing
writer for DissidentVoice.org, LiberalSlant.com, DemocraticUnderground.com, OnlineJournal.com,
AmericaHeldHostage.com, and other online dot com publications. Mr. Nichols is
a contributor to The Oklahoma Observer newspaper. He is a member of CASE — Citizens’
Action for Safe Energy. CASE has successfully killed two serious, well funded
attempts to build Nuclear Power Plants in Oklahoma and several attempts to site
what is now known as the "Yucca Mountain Used Reactor Core Dump" in Oklahoma.
All these efforts to build nuclear facilities have failed. CASE won every time.
Copyright (C) 2004, Bob Nichols. All rights reserved. Permission for reposting
is allowed provided the complete text and attribution are kept intact.

REFERENCES

(1) Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat’s paper presented at a medical conference in New Delhi,
India, February 29, March 1-2, 2004 titled "Silent
WMDs - Effects of Depleted Uranium
."

(2) This radiation war was announced in the United States by the article "There
Are No Words
" by Bob Nichols on DissidentVoice.org on March 27, 2004.

(3) Summary
of the report of the Committee, Dr. James B. Conant, Chairman
.

Kissinger’s quote regarding military men comes from Chapter 14, which extensively
discusses Al Haig, Kissinger and other Nixon staff advisors’ negotiations and
differences over national security issues during the 1969-1974 period. The exact,
direct quote marks begin with the word ’dumb’ and terminate after the word ’used’.
SOURCE: Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, The Final Days
second Touchstone paperback edition (1994), Chapter 14, pp. 194-195. Other Articles
by Bob Nichols

* There Are No
Words ... Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs

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