Toxic Legacy Of U.S. Assault On Fallujah 'Worse Than Hiroshima' - 38 Fold Increase In Leukemia
As I remarked on here years ago, I am probably as close to a pacifist as there is without actually being one. And I have no problem whatsoever publicly acknowledging that position. The endless propaganda glorifying war and the war machine by modern states is reprehensible. As we have written on here, war is man's most evil invention. That a few people, usually megalomaniacal men, can induce whole societies into killing their fellow man is not a testament to an enlightened human condition. Fifty million people in World War II alone lost their lives. and the entire world was nearly destroyed.
Yet I realize psychopaths and the state only understand one thing - power. So deterrence is a necessary evil and a reality. Those men and women who serve our country are almost all honorable and virtuous. They make a great sacrifice with limited economic value and even less respect from many in society. But the politicians who wage war in any country are often of dubious virtue and honor. The state is the source of endless war. It is without conscience. As Randolph Bourne wrote a century ago, war is the health of the state.
One of the most egregious acts against the truth is the refusal of the mainstream media to report the tragedies of using depleted uranium weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was a documentary released some years ago about the outcomes of using depleted uranium in Iraq. Obviously, it was not released in the U.S. but was on web video sources. The radioactivity of depleted uranium is thousands to millions of years and the U.S. military has used thousands of tons of it. Thus, effectively making these countries permanent death zones for the innocent people who live there. That the United States government knew of depleted uranium's effects before this war yet thousands of tons of the munitions were still used means what?
The long term effects on American soldiers and innocent populations in these countries is a great horror of permanent disease and death.
Preemptive war is not the policy of democracy. It is not the policy of the reasoned mind. It is the will of the state. And the state's endless desire to subvert democratic self-rule. The use of depleted uranium weapons while understanding their consequences ......... well, you be the judge.
title link also here.
Yet I realize psychopaths and the state only understand one thing - power. So deterrence is a necessary evil and a reality. Those men and women who serve our country are almost all honorable and virtuous. They make a great sacrifice with limited economic value and even less respect from many in society. But the politicians who wage war in any country are often of dubious virtue and honor. The state is the source of endless war. It is without conscience. As Randolph Bourne wrote a century ago, war is the health of the state.
One of the most egregious acts against the truth is the refusal of the mainstream media to report the tragedies of using depleted uranium weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was a documentary released some years ago about the outcomes of using depleted uranium in Iraq. Obviously, it was not released in the U.S. but was on web video sources. The radioactivity of depleted uranium is thousands to millions of years and the U.S. military has used thousands of tons of it. Thus, effectively making these countries permanent death zones for the innocent people who live there. That the United States government knew of depleted uranium's effects before this war yet thousands of tons of the munitions were still used means what?
The long term effects on American soldiers and innocent populations in these countries is a great horror of permanent disease and death.
Preemptive war is not the policy of democracy. It is not the policy of the reasoned mind. It is the will of the state. And the state's endless desire to subvert democratic self-rule. The use of depleted uranium weapons while understanding their consequences ......... well, you be the judge.
title link also here.
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