Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:00
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Enough is enough. This nation has gone so far beyond the rule of law and reason that it is almost impossible to know where to start to bring in order to right all of the terrible wrongs we have perpetrated in the last fifty years. We have seen the American military machine wreck havoc in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We not only occupied Iraq, but we have poisoned the soil and made the place uninhabitable because of our use of depleted uranium in our munitions. We can deny that depleted uranium is harmless, but the facts coming in about the deformed babies being born in Iraq says otherwise. We must all come to the conclusion that not only was the invasion of Iraq a crime against humanity, but turning Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia into a radioactive wasteland are even larger crimes against humanity.
We must hold not only the government of this country accountable, but the facts are that knowing what we know now, we are all accountable. You may ask where I am getting my information from. Let me share my sources with you. When you click these links, please understand that some of these sources show very explicit photographs of the effects of depleted uranium on newborns. These pictures are disturbing, but no less disturbing than turning a blind eye to what we have done to these innocents in the name of “liberating” these people.
WARNING: The links contain graphic and disturbing images
Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium
Depleted Uranium, Far Worse than 9/11
Nothing Depleted about depleted uranium
Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
Contamination of Gulf War Vets and others by Depleted Uranium
Our Depleted Children
I can go on and fill up page after page of these crimes against the most vulnerable segment of any society, the children, but I won’t. To find other examples, just type in “Depleted Uranium Birth Defects” into any search engine. See for yourself what inhumanity this nation is capable of.
I’m sure that there will be critics of this article that will claim that these links I have provided offer “no real proof” that DU is the cause of these birth defects. Let them claim what they will. I understand that it is hard to comprehend that the United States is capable of war crimes of this magnitude. It is human nature to deny that our nation could be a party to such horrendous actions against other human beings.
This is just part of what our nation is involved in. We have gone way over the line in many aspects of our “foreign policy”. We have gone so far as to use our space program to enhance our military machine. The United States can claim that we dominate the world when it comes to using space as a military platform. We publically claim that space exploration and our space program and those space programs of other nations should be used to advance human understanding and only be used for “peaceful purposes”, but that is just a ruse. We own space militarily.
Is there anything that the United States won’t do to further our global ambitions? I ask myself that question a lot. We seem to be a country that suffers from multiple personalities. We hear our silver-tongued President call for a dialogue of peace with the nations of the world while the other United States is still performing renditions and sending “suspected terrorists” to secret CIA interrogation sites.
We have declared war against Islam, demonizing an entire religion and culture that currently has the misfortune to live on 70% of the world’s oil reserves. We have demonized Hugo Chavez, a man that has done more for the poor people of his country than any other leader has done in Venezuela that came before him. We actively engaged in supporting a coup against him that was engineered by the affluent sector of the country and was supported by radio and TV stations owned by them. Now, eight years later, he shuts down a few of them for supporting that coup attempt and calling for his assassination and we demonize him. Most people in the United States see him as a dictator because of our propaganda against him. It’s understandable when you consider that his country sits on oil reserves that rival Saudi Arabia’s.
The media in this country is doing every citizen in this nation a grave disservice by not reporting what is really happening in the world. The media reports on celebrities, sports and the political discourse that is meant to keep the American people from seeing the truth. They keep us divided by reporting on issues like gay marriage and abortion and a health care program that seems to only benefit the health care insurance companies. They try to divide us with labels; right, left, liberal, conservative, republican and democrat. The political reporting only concentrates on the two corporate-controlled political parties that really don’t represent anything but keeping the status quo. Reporting on world news in detail is a thing of the past. We may hear about another country if they get hit by an earthquake for a week or so and then coverage disappears.
We are losing our civil liberties on a daily basis. The government has the power to tap your phone and read your e-mails and look into your computer without a warrant. Demonstrators can only demonstrate in “First Amendment zones”, areas fenced off from the public. The government can arrest you without a warrant and hold you indefinitely without access to a lawyer or family by designating you a “terrorist”. A terrorist is anyone they say is a terrorist.
The people are starting to slowly understand. We have the tea party movement. They might be confused and wrong on most things, but they know something is wrong. The left, the real left, is becoming more vocal. Most people in America are sensing that they are living in a police state. Every day the police are looking more and more like military units.
The President has the power to send troops to fight anywhere on Earth without the consent of Congress. It is ‘unpatriotic” to vote against war funding because it appears that you “don’t support the troops”. Meanwhile the military is taking in gang members and felons to keep the ranks filled. When they come home physically and mentally scarred from constant back to back combat tours, getting proper treatment and rehabilitation is a crap shoot. The VA just doesn’t get the funding it needs.
I could keep writing all day. I’ll just conclude by saying that the things I’ve mentioned just scratch the surface of what is going on. Yesterday Vice President Biden was in Israel to promote peace talks with the Palestinians and Israel announced that they were building a new 1600 unit “settlement” in occupied East Jerusalem in violation of the peace accords. A slap in America’s face after we condemned the Goldstone report that accused Israel of War crimes when they invaded occupied Gaza, a city of 1.5 million with a median age of 14 years old and killed over 1500 people, mostly women and children.
Can things get much worse? In a word…yes. We can lose the rights we have left. We can keep pushing the Chinese and the Russians by expanding NATO and continuing to build missile sites on their borders until they finally can’t take it anymore. We can keep threatening Iran because it is building a nuclear reactor, something that 26 other nations have already done. Even though Iran has signed the non-proliferation treaty that allows it to build nuclear reactors for domestic power and authorizes them to enrich uranium to 20% somehow we still find the temerity to threaten them even though Israel announced that it is building its own reactor last week. We still turn a blind eye to Israel’s “secret” 300-t0 800 nuclear warheads.
All would take would be for Nazi-controlled Israel to launch a nuclear strike on Iran for that situation to spiral out of control until Russia or China shots off some of their own nuclear warheads towards Israel to spark World War IV. Then all of our future children will look like the poor children that I started this article with. Think about it.
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2010-03-11 23:49:18 |Registered| mike keenor
A thoughtful and frustrated article, so often do you read such condemnation of the USA. Thomas Merton referred way back in the sixties how the media was turning the people of the USA into zombies, the dead moved by demons.
The Christian fundamentalist, so prevalent in the US often talk of 'The Beast'. I say to them, "If you see a dark shadow of the beast, cast upon the surface of the earth, realize you are seeing your own shadow, illuminated by the truth you have turned your back on".Mike.
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2010-03-12 02:02:12 |Author| Timothy V. Gatto
I'm not bashing America for no reason.The U.S. is fully aware of the effects of DU, on it's soldiers and on the populations of the countries they are using it in. This is a travesty and is morally wrong. It's time we as citizens put our foot down on these acts of barbarism.
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2010-03-12 16:26:30 |76.126.134.xxx| D. Stewart Armstrong - Accountable
Good piece.
The challenge is to unite. We need a minimum of one million people.
I work with the junior mining companies, maybe not PC but necessary nonetheless.
Lets take this Brain Trust and Unite--If you're not afraid to stand up and be counted go to www.seacoast-consulting and sign up.
This site, the Daily Bell, and similar independent sites have to unite and get their members to unite. Divided we fall.
The monetary situation in the US is absolutely untenable. The dollar will implode and with it the ability to fund the war machine. This is why they cap gold. Gold competes with the dollar.
There are no longer any free markets in the US
Find a way to get your people together and along with all the other concerned Americans we can make and impact. Won't be easy. We're a long way down the wrong road. DSA
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2010-03-12 16:37:47 |70.137.114.xxx| Jeff Thompson
D. Stewart -
I hear you. I applaud your sentiment.I am not very hopeful though. My feeling is - The FED believes they are strong enough to be the last man standing, and will not fix the problem, but rather - be the last to fail, and in the end, win by default.
I do not agree with this, but this is how I think the FED feels. What do you expect from them? They think they can inflate out now, but it is too late, and they cannot stop the deflation monster. That is the bag of tricks they are missing.
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2010-03-12 11:30:16 |69.108.67.xxx| Jeff Thompson - We are all Accountable
Americans? Believe what we see on whose Media. Believe what we heard from an Idiot President. Idiot President? What kind of person thinks 911 was a concocted spoof? Bad American - shame on you!
Go to church, bless Israel, so we can be their proxy in their wars. Praise god, because we are told that god loves Israel, we must then love Israel. Oh yes, bow to AIPAC. Now!
Pass the tray, put in your tithe, while leaving church - and drive right past the poor begging at the freeway offramps.
Americans, just about last in education of all Western "Democracies". Wonder why?
Jus kiddin Gomer. Go back to watchin Spongebob.
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2010-03-12 18:01:01 |76.184.88.xxx| Shrewd Non-Aggressor - 'We' are not the govt.
Sure, we are all accountable, if we are the government. But the government is not us. I am accountable for my life and my actions (none of which include any of the atrocities listed above). Besides that, I share the author's sentiments and appreciate his efforts.
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Military industrial complex will keep selling wars , they w;nt heed untill WW3 becomes reality.
They even are killing their own soldiers
http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1965.cfm
While the Pentagon is denying, denying, and lying again, telling its soldiers that nothing is wrong with them, or telling them they are suffering from mental maladies, the poisoning of Depleted Uranium is spreading beyond the contaminated soldiers to their wives through intimacy and to their precious newly born babies.
Just as in Gulf War I, contaminated husbands are poisoning their wives and girl friends through physical intimacy, and the semen is producing babies who are either deformed or are severely ill. Remember the warning on Congressman Kucinich's video, that 67% of babies born to returning Gulf War I veterans had deformities and/or severe illnesses which can be directly traced back to the D.U. contamination of the father.