| -Caveat Lector-
Leading leftwing activist lies about US
intentions toward Iraq
Dr Aaron
Oakley Professional idiot and the Australian Conservation
Foundation's head honcho Peter Garrett has decided to speak out against toppling
Saddam's sadistic regime. In doing so he revealed the moral and intellectual
bankruptcy of the left.
He argued that America has no right to "carpet bomb
Baghdad". Who said Baghdad was going to be carpet bombed? In fact, who said any
part of Iraq would be carpet bombed? It is just vicious smear mongering to
state, as Garrett did, that America intends to "carpet bomb Baghdad" or any
other part of Iraq.
To justify his defence of Saddam's murderous
regime, and that is what it amounted to, Garrett raised the non-issue of
depleted uranium:
"There has already been use of weapons with
depleted uranium in the first Gulf War, raising anxiety about the long-term
consequences to human health and groundwater systems. A "bunker busting" bomb
made with DU was first detonated on a site in Kandahar in Afghanistan, where
preliminary medical tests revealed uranium contamination on human populations
100 times the normal level. Any use of nuclear weapons as contemplated by the
new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of damage."
This guy knows nothing and understands even less.
Depleted Uranium is called depleted for a reason. The most radioactive
portion (U-235) has been removed. What is left (mostly U-238) has an extremely
long half life 4.5- billion years. This means that the danger from radioactivity
is minimal.
Mr Garrett tells us that contamination by DU is
"100 times the normal level". So what? Is 100 times the "normal level (whatever
that is) actually dangerous?
Perhaps Garrett should read the DU study in the
Lancet that showed no correlation between service in the Balkans and
cancer or other illnesses. Or another one that found no evidence of widespread
radioactive contamination in Kosovo.
Garrett says "Any use of nuclear weapons as
contemplated by the new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of
damage". The implication is that he is so dumb he thinks DU constitutes a
"nuclear" weapon.
According to one correspondent: "DU was used as
paperweights on desks of engineers in Los Alamos in the 50s before the
regulatory world went nuts. It is used in military shells not because if it very
weak radioactivity, but because of its very high density (about 19gm/cc). As
such it has high penetrating power."
The truth is that DU is more of a hazard as a heavy
metal rather than for its radioactivity.
What really made Garrett's article morally
offensive was its refusal to not only acknowledge the need to remove this Arab
Pol Pot but its insinuation that this murderous thug's regime has the same moral
right to self-defence as any democracy.
It is time that the leftwing likes of Garrett were
held to account for their hypocrisy and made to explain why the people of Iraq
are less deserving of liberty than themselves.
Perhaps that is why our leftwingers remain silent
while Saddam's thugs crucify children, publicly behead women, set people on fire
and torture children in front of their parents. And that is just Saddam's entrée
to his smorgasbord of mass murder and torture. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
