As Iraq has already been bombed back to the stone age (1991), does the US government really believe an electronics blackout would be anything very unusual? Is it worth targeting these weapons at the already chronically malnourished and cancer ridden children in the Baghdad hospitals? Are we to believe that to zap them with electric bolts far greater than lightning will do them no harm at all or are our politicians and military cynical enough to think that as they are dying anyway, no one will know nor care?
It would seem that as weapons technology advances so the victims themselves become less and less visible. No bloody massacre or mushroom cloud to shock and appall - just hundreds of thousands of slow, lingering, silent deaths. Some conditions might take many years to unfold, others are passed on from generation to generation. The result is an irreversible and insidious deterioration of our common gene pool.
Joanne Baker
Joanne Baker is with the Pandora DU Research Project: http://www.brischange.org/pandoraproject
E-mail: pduproject@yahoo.co.uk
Joanne has visited Iraq four times since 1999.
* Alim Yacoub, MBChB, DPH, MSc., PhD, MFCM Dean and Professor, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad
Republished with permission.
Published on Friday, September 20, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Please also see:
U.S. SUPPLIES, CALIBRATES AND ENDORSES USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN IRAQ
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/news11.htm
America's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Steven Rosenfeld, September 24, 2002
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc746.html
It would seem that as weapons technology advances so the victims themselves become less and less visible. No bloody massacre or mushroom cloud to shock and appall - just hundreds of thousands of slow, lingering, silent deaths. Some conditions might take many years to unfold, others are passed on from generation to generation. The result is an irreversible and insidious deterioration of our common gene pool.
Joanne Baker
Joanne Baker is with the Pandora DU Research Project: http://www.brischange.org/pandoraproject
E-mail: pduproject@yahoo.co.uk
Joanne has visited Iraq four times since 1999.
* Alim Yacoub, MBChB, DPH, MSc., PhD, MFCM Dean and Professor, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad
Republished with permission.
Published on Friday, September 20, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Please also see:
U.S. SUPPLIES, CALIBRATES AND ENDORSES USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN IRAQ
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/news11.htm
America's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Steven Rosenfeld, September 24, 2002
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc746.html