-----Original Message----- From: Anna M Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:07 PM To: Friends Subject: [RCF] BIOWARFARE
BIOWARFARE by Mitchel Cohen With the U.S. government poised to once again bomb Iraq, the administration and media are orchestrating the barely repressed hysteria and manipulating the American public into a chorus for retribution and war. It doesn't matter that Iraq has categorically denied any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center and to the Anthrax scare, and has, indeed, denounced them. Before the US bombardment began ten years ago under the auspices of George H.W. Bush, Sr., Iraq -- along with Israel -- had the most sophisticated health care system in western Asia and the Middle East. And it was free for all Iraqis. It also had modern sanitation and drinking water systems. The U.S. bombardment took care of that. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people were murdered outright by the U.S. bombardment in 1991. A million more were killed by U.S. destruction of Iraq's drinking water and hospitals, combined with the sanctions against that beleaguered people. Children continue to die from malnutrition and curable ailments that go untreated due to the U.S./U.N. embargo and sanctions. Whatever one thinks of Saddam Hussein (or George Bush, or Bill Clinton for that matter), when did the people of Iraq become our enemy? George W. Bush is following in his father's and in former President Clinton's footsteps; both repeatedly declared the need to bomb Iraq again and again. Why? Back in 1998 Clinton and Gore said it was to force Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, to allow the U.S. to be represented on U.N. teams inspecting Iraq's alleged chemical and biological weapons facilities. The Canadian and Dutch inspectors were permitted by Iraq, but this was not considered good enough by the U.S. It had to be U.S. inspectors -- Iraq claimed they were working with the CIA, and so objected. Whitewashed in all the orchestrated hysteria and mumbo jumbo is that it was the U.S. and its allies that provided Iraq with nerve gas to begin with, along with all sorts of chemical and biological agents. Saddam Hussein -- who had been installed as President of Iraq in a CIA orchestrated coup -- obtained the nerve gas on the world market (the leading suppliers were the U.S., France, England, Germany and Russia). Even as he condemned the threatened use of chemical and biological weapons by Saddam Hussein, U.S. President George Bush knew full well the extent of arsenal, for it was Bush himself, in his former capacity as head of the CIA (and later as Vice President and President), who had approved shipments of material needed to make biological and chemical weapons to Iraq. Bush approved shipping to Iraq toxic varieties of E.coli and Salmonella bacteria, and agents causing anthrax, gas gangrene and brucellosis.(1) In the course of restructuring the production and control of world oil, the Gulf war provided the the U.S. military with the opportunity to test new depleted uranium weapons, gas vaccines, and biological warfare medications in the field, on its own soldiers. Inoculations -- some genetically engineered and completely experimental -- were mandatory and generally done without the consent and often against the will of the soldiers. As it turns out, these inoculations are now viewed by independent researchers as cofactors in the development of Gulf War Syndrome, mysterious ailments afflicting hundreds of thousands of American veterans of the Gulf. And, in February, 1998, the U.S. began shipping large containers of untested genetically engineered anthrax vaccine to Israel to thwart the expected use of biological agents the U.S. had supplied to Iraq. What kind of devious mass experiment was being set up here? The Bush administration also signed 700 licenses worth $1.2 billion for so called "dual use" technology to Iraq. As exposed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in California and House of Representatives Banking Committee Chair Henry Gonzalez (D, Texas), hundreds of U.S. and European corporations such as Hewlett Packard, Honeywell and others provided Iraq with such "dual use" technology as computers for weapons guidance, fuel air explosives, imaging circuitry for missile warheads, vaccum pumps and bellows for nuclear power plants, and live cultures for bacteriological research. These were sent directly to the Iraqi military.(2) In early February, 1998, the Russian government warned the U.S. not to bomb Iraq. To discredit Russia, word suddenly "leaked" that three years earlier (and the US government conveniently "just" discovered it! What a coincidence!) Russia sent "dual purpose" technology to Iraq which U.S. officials claimed could be used for bacteriological warfare. In actuality, this "dangerous" equipment sold by Russia was nothing more than a 5,000 liter vat for fermenting yeast. Could such a product be used for making, say, anthrax? Yes, although not the sophisticated "military grade? variety. So could any pressure cooker or, for that matter, any bathtub. It could also be used for making beer, and, more likely, antibiotics, which Iraq was desperate to obtain after a decade of war with Iran in which 1 million people on both sides were killed. Meanwhile, the press has yet to question why the U.S. had exported to Iraq far more ominous biological agents and military technology, with Reagan's and Bush's approval. What did the press, let alone Bush and Reagan, expect those agents would be used for? The U.S. used the existence of Iraqi nerve gas -- weapons, let me repeat, that were shipped to Iraq by the U.S. and its allies, primarily Britain, France and Germany -- as a basis for vilifying Iraq. This enabled the U.S. government to get away with atrocity after atrocity in a war more properly called the "Gulf Massacre." Civilian casualties? No problem. They're just "collateral damage."(3) Most people assume that if any nerve gas had been used it would have had to have been Saddam's doing. No corporate paper or tv newscast has yet dared suggest the possibility that it was the U.S., not Saddam, that used dangerous biological and chemical warfare agents in the Gulf. That thought remains beyond the pale even today, despite the U.S.'s long history of biological and chemical warfare and experimentation on human beings.(4) Saddam, after all, was portrayed as the war criminal, "worse than Hitler,. The problem is that George Bush fit that description as well. On September 11th 1990, U.S. President George Bush, upholding "democracy" and "peace," declared his "New World Order". He was soon to order thousands of tons of napalm, air fuel explosives, phosphorous bombs, cluster bombs, and uranium encased shells, raining holy terror upon Iraq. Seven Years later, President Clinton did George Bush one better -- he actually signed a top secret directive authorizing first use of nuclear weapons against Iraq "under certain circumstances." By the end of February, 1998, two Los Angeles class submarines carrying nuclear warheads atop Tomahawk missiles had arrived in the Gulf. Each missile is encased in so called "depleted" uranium.(5) The non nuclear version, also enclosed in depleted uranium, are now being used against Afghanistan. The foxes of imperialism and world domination use every trick in the book to guard and to expand their multi trillion dollar oil henhouse. 1. NY Newsday, Nov. 8, 1996. 2. Dennis Bernstein, investigative reporter, KPFA (Berkeley, CA), as reported on Democracy Now (Pacifica), Feb. 13, 1998. 3. Mitchel Cohen, "Read My Apocalypse: The Role of the Gulf War in the Emergence of the New World Order," 1998. 4. Mitchel Cohen, "The U.S. Government's Secret War: A History of Experimentation with Biological & Chemical Warfare," 1995. 5. Mitchel Cohen, "Glowing in the Gulf: Radiation, Genetically Engineered Drugs and Gulf War Syndrome,? 1998. END PART ONE [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church." Blessed Pope Pius IX "If you love Me...Keep My Word." (Our Lord Jesus Christ) "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph." (Our Blessed Lady of Fatima) "Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ." 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