What goes 'round, comes 'round

The war we so generously deliver to Iraqis, we shall receive in return. Below are some facts from Leuren Moret, an expert in international radiation. Items mentioned were extracted from her letter to Cindy Sheehan, who is presently camped outside Bush's "ranch" in protest of his war.

Leuren prefaced her letter to Sheehan by saying, "Seeing you camped this week at the gate of George Bush's Texas ranch in Crawford is a very powerful statement to the world. Major change begins often with a single person ......Your courage and unrelenting national and international campaign to stop the Iraq war has made a big impact on the conciousness of Americans."

(Dada notes: I know it's made an equally big impact on the consciousness of the Bush administration. Important ~ "consciousness" is NOT to be confused with "conscience".)

Here are some of Moret's reminders to us all:

- Depleted uranium is WMD

- Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302.

- DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague and Geneva war conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws and U.S. military law.

- Terry Jemison at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated in August 2004 that over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are now on medical disability...

- The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU "conventional" weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons.

- Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs. The U.S. has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere with radioactive pollution having a half-life of 2.5 billion years.

- In some studies of soldiers who had normal babies before the war, 67 percent of the post-war babies are born with severe birth defects - missing brains, eyes, organs, legs and arms, and blood diseases.

- In southern Iraq, scientists are reporting five times higher levels of gamma radiation in the air, which increases the radioactive body burden daily of inhabitants. In fact, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan are uninhabitable.

I think Leuren Moret makes some strong points that we cannot use DU, a weapon of mass destruction, with impunity without the imposition of a "cosmic justice" upon ourselves through the environment we poison, the returning soldiers we debilitate and future children we mutate.

(Hmmm, this seems to compliment my "If Cancer is a Metaphor for Mankind......." blog below from earlier this morning.)