NOTE: A good question is how much
microscopic DU radiation is circulating via trade winds worldwide. -CR
Death By Slow Burn - How
America Nukes Its Own Troops
What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means
By Amy
Worthington - The Idaho Observer
"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.'
-------------- article follows:
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 cleanup 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 jets on 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, Zess@aol.com. 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, coachanu@earthlink.net, 12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op. cit.
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