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  Nature of Resistance in Iraq by Scott Ritter   csmonitor.com
November 10, 2003
 

Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared
UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency




  Depleted Uranium - a crime in progress...   by Robert C. Koehler
November 10, 2003
  The perfect weapon: Its damage lasts 4.5 billion years
What's not to love, if you're the Pentagon? We pounded Saddam Hussein's army with depleted uranium ammo in Gulf War I and destroyed it on the ground. Maybe you've seen pictures of what we did to it; GIs cleaning up afterward coined the term ``crispy critters'' to describe the fried corpses they found inside Iraqi tanks and trucks.
 



  Comment on items sent from Abolition Caucus
by Larry Ross
October 25 , 2003
  Israel/US vs Palestine & The Middle East
Both Israel and US are the only nuclear powers in the Mid-East. Israel is stealing land from Palestine, building Israeli settlements and huge walls through the middle of the stolen land in defiance of many UN resolutions and assassinating people they label as "terrorists". They have reached out and bombed well within Syria, on the grounds of "attacking terrorists or terrorist camps".
 

Items on: India/Pakistan/Saudia
The Times of India Online Oct 23 2003 Saudis may buy Pak nukes
Indian Express/PTI Thurs Oct 23, 2003 Pak, Saudi ink secret nuclear deal: Report
VoA Oct 22, 2003 Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Cooperate on Nuclear Technology
Indian Express Oct 23, 2003 India's nukes likely to spark arms race: US body
India, Pakistan have over 80 nuclear weapons: US report




 
Bush defends Iraq war and economic policy          Daily Times Pakistan
October 12, 2003
 

* Accuses mainstream media of fuelling unhappiness by reporting mostly bad news from Iraq*
So Journalists should not tell the truth now??
Brushing aside the embarrassing failure of US troops to find the weapons he made the centrepiece of his case for military action, Bush said the invasion thwarted future plots against the United States by “madman” Saddam Hussein. “Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat. He possessed and he used weapons of mass destruction,” he declared here. “I was not about to leave the security of the United States to the desires and hopes of this madman.”




 
1,200 weapons inspectors spent 90 days in Iraq.
by Rupert Cornwell and Paul Waugh
October 3, 2003
 

The exercise cost $300m. And the number of weapons found? 0
Five months after the end of the war in Iraq, a CIA adviser has admitted that his 1,200-strong team of inspectors has discovered none of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.




  Bunker Busters: A Whole New Nuclear Ballgame   Greenpeace.org
September 23, 2003
 

On September 16, Bush got his way when the US Senate voted to allow research into smaller nuclear weapons that could be used in battlefield situations. The so-called "bunker buster" mini-nukes would, in theory, be used to destroy command and control bunkers buried deep underground.




  September Surprise
by Bill Berkowitz
Sepember, 5, 2003
 

 Last May, President Bush made his now-famous -- and outrageously false -- statement to a Polish television station: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.... But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

              

  The Silent Genocide from America
by Mohammed Daud Miraki
August 11, 2003
 

When Bush jr. said, "we will smoke them out…" he lived up to his promise, making life an unattainable reality for the unborn and unsustainable reality for the living sentencing the Afghan people and
their future generations to a predetermined death sentence.     All they don't tell you about D.U. Weapons

              

  Blowing the N-whistle  
by Doug Rokke
June 28, 2003
 

A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars.
Doug Rokke sits on the edge of his chair in a beige, could-be-anywhere hotel room in Carlton. He stares at you with an almost embarrassing intensity and is close to tears.
"It's lonely," he says slowly. "It's very lonely. I made a decision. I was given a job. I did my job. I learned something. I gave them an answer they didn't want. I became persona non grata. And the better parts of my life ended."

         
         
  Weapon of Mass Deception  
by Frida Berrigan
June 27, 2003
 

In the weeks leading up to the war on Iraq, TV screens across America were crowded with images of U.S. soldiers readying for upcoming battles with a crazed dictator who would stop at nothing. One clip after another showed U.S. soldiers racing to don $211 suits designed to protect them from the chemical and biological attacks they would surely suffer on the road to ousting Saddam Hussein.

         
         
  NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION STATEMENT
David Krieger
June 16, 2003
  Important Statement on New Nuclear Dangers
THE CHALLENGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A PATH FORWARD
The peoples and governments of the world face an urg
ent challenge relating to weaponry of mass destruction and particularly to nuclear weaponry. 
              

   Democrats Demand Investigation Into Iraqi WMD Questions
 
June 14, 2003
 

Americans deserve to know the truth about why we went to war in Iraq. Click here to take action now and send a message to President Bush and Senator Pat Roberts demanding a full investigation into the intelligence Bush relied upon when he argued that Iraq presented an imminent threat to the United States.

              

  'They impeach murderers, don't they?' 
by Ted Rall
June 13, 2003

Topic: Commander-In-Thief Bush Must Step Down
George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

       
         
 
Revelations Show WMD Claims Just An Excuse For War
GLOBAL NETNEWS
May 30, 2003

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 WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz Independent, UK May 30
Robin Cook: Britain must not be suckered a second time by the White House - The British government needs to concede that we went to war for reasons of US foreign policy and Republican Party politics Independent, UK May 30
British, US claims on Iraq's WMD could be intelligence blunder Straits Times, Singapore May 30
Government blames spies over war Independent, UK May 30

 


 
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTORTION
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May - June, 2003
 

  "The term "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMD) was long reserved for nuclear explosives, which release upon detonation a million times more energy per weight than conventional explosives like TNT.
More recently, though, and especially now in reference to Iraq, WMD has been expanded to include chemical and biological weapons. This is decidedly misleading terminology, because the three types of weapons are fundamentally differenct in terms of lethality, in the area they cover and over time; in the availability of measures that can protect against them; and in their potential tactical, strategic, and terrorist uses."

   


 
Mayor of Hiroshima Protest Letter to George Bush on Mini-Nukes
from Tadatoshi Akiba
April 21, 2003
    Mayor of Hiroshima  
  As mayor of the A-bombed city Hiroshima I am outraged by the barbarism that has led you not only to attack Iraq, killing or injuring thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens, but also to develop new nuclear weapons.  You are trampling viciously on the hopes of the vast majority of people around the world who seek peace and, on behalf of the residents of Hiroshima, I vehemently protest. 
   
 

 
DU Info Bulletin no. 72 and News
 
April 23, 2003
 
One of the enduring mysteries of the last gulf war
Susan Spencer, CBS
April 9, 2003
 
Scientists reject line on depleted uranium
Paul Brown, Guardian
April 19 2003
 
Depleted uranium casts shadow over peace in Iraq
Duncan Graham-Rowe
April 15, 2003
 
Long-Term Damage from a Short-Term War Leaving a Mess in Mesopotamia
Solana Pyne
April 16-22, 2003
 
U.S. should end its use of depleted-uranium weapons
Ginger Perlman
April 16, 2003
  Nuclear "bunker busters" sought:
Move signals big shift in U.S. weapon strategy

Dan Stober,
Mercury News

April 23, 2003

 
Death by DU
Depleted uranium: A deadly tool in the U.S. arsenal
Beth Hawkins
Minneapolis City Pages
April 23, 2003

 

Scientists debate depleted uranium weapons' possible
contamination of Iraqi civilians

Joseph B. Verrengia
Associated Press


April 21, 2003

  Depleted-uranium weapons should be banned

Glen Milner

  "Depleted uranium will affect Iraq for generations to come"      Aljazeera
Prof Doug Rokke,
April 15, 2003



  Weapons of Mass Destruction found!    
  Zoom on Doom: Easy-to-find nuclear weapons map
From GREENPEACE
April, 13, 2003
 

Since the US and the UK are having such a hard time finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we thought we'd lend a
hand by providing this easy guide to the nukes we know about.

              

  Bush Or Kerry? Look Closely And The Danger Is The Same
by John Pilger
April 4, 2004
 

A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.

   
 
 
The Day Bush cited as of Kurdish Gas Massacre is the Day
Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere
March 16, 2003
 

of My Lai Massacre
In his radio address on March 15, "DUBYA" Bush reminded his listeners the next day to be the 15th "bitter anniversary" of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja. Bush reportedly called Saddam as
one of the "most cruel dictator in the history".
But in fact it is the USA that militarily helped and equipped Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. And it is American LaFarge company that provided Iraq with chemical weapon materials. It is reported that "Papa" Bush was the owner and Hillary Clinton was a director of this company. Moreover, the very claim that Kurdish people of Halabja were killed by Iraq's toxic gas was found to be fake.   NY Times

   

 
US-UK Lies on Iraq Exposed
by John Pilger,  Daily Mirror
March 13, 2003
 

The Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were almost certainly destroyed following the Gulf War.
Of all the pro-war propaganda of Blair and Bush, and their current threats giving Saddam Hussein yet another deadline to disarm, what may be their biggest lie is exposed by this revelation.                                 ......More Articles by John Pilger          

   


 

The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason

by Selwyn Manning   Scoop
March 7, 2003
  Yes the religious card is being played from both sides of this crisis. Yet each week even more disturbing reports emerge. Like from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention where US President George W. Bush was described as “God's chosen man”. Bush sat, listened, then stood up empowered and proclaimed that the imminent American attack on Iraq will be one of Christian morality, that this attack would be, "in the highest moral traditions of our country [the USA]".
 


 
WMDs: Global Nuclear Stockpiles & International Law
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 31, 2003
  The five major nuclear powers currently have more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in their arsenals, as shown in the table below. But this does not include a number of intact Russian nuclear warheads of indeterminate status—possibly as many as 10,000. Of the more than 30,000 intact warheads belonging to the world’s eight nuclear weapon states, the vast majority (96 percent) are in U.S. or Russian stockpiles. About 17,500 of these warheads are considered operational. The rest are in reserve or retired and awaiting dismantlement.
   

  US INTELLIGENCE ON WMD IN IRAQ by Larry Ross
February 24, 2003
  Why this is so important is that the US is preparing to wage a massive war, perhaps involving some 500,000 casualties and severe other consequences, on the basis of "garbage" intelligence. This is now looking truer than ever


 
  ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF IRAQ WAR Peter Drekmeier
February 22, 2003
  If nuclear weapons are used in Iraq, Medact fears that 3.9 million people would die. The radioactive fallout would eventually circle the planet, dooming even more people to an early death.
   

  Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction – NUMBERS http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
February 20, 2003
  "Who has WMD? Nuclear capability by country "



  ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF IRAQ WAR Peter Drekmeier
February 22, 2003
  If nuclear weapons are used in Iraq, Medact fears that 3.9 million
people would die. The radioactive fallout would eventually circle the planet, dooming even more people to an early death.



 
The Big Lie about Saddam Gassing the Kurds
Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere, NY Times
January 31, 2003
 

A War Crime or an Act of War?
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — It was no surprise that President Bush, lacking smoking-gun evidence of Iraq's weapons programs, used his State of the Union address to re-emphasize the moral case for an invasion: "The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured."

   


  President Promotes Use of Nuclear Weapons by John Burroughs
January 1, 2003
  Distributed by Minuteman Media, http://www.opedresource.com/  
  The Bush administration recently released its "National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMD). Unfortunately, what the strategy really does is promote nuclear weapons.
The administration declared in December that the United States "reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force - including through resort to all of our options - to the use of WMD against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies."
              

  In this new age, there's no such thing as a 'nonlethal' weapon
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and Mark L. Wheelis
December 9, 2002
 
So-called non-lethal weapons are more dangerous than nuclear weapons
The same technological revolution that is accelerating the development of new medical products is also making it possible for coercive regimes to manipulate human beings by altering their psychological processes, controlling their behavior, interfering with reproduction or tampering with inheritance - and even to do so without the knowledge of the victims. The risks for humanity go far beyond the threat of terrorism. We are on the verge of an arms race sparked by the misleading term nonlethal - coined to sell this weaponry to the public - and the Moscow hostage crisis, an excuse for nations to acquire such weapons.
  www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/4697407.htm



  Global nuclear stockpiles, 1945-2002 Atomic Scientists
Nov/Dec 2002
  The five major nuclear powers currently have more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in their arsenals, as shown in the table below. But this does not include a number of intact Russian nuclear warheads of indeterminate status-possibly as many as 10,000. Of the more than 30,000 intact warheads belonging to the world's eight nuclear weapon states, the vast majority (96 percent) are in U.S. or Russian stockpiles. About 17,500 of these warheads are considered operational. The rest are in reserve or retired and awaiting dismantlement.
 
 

Why I Reject Nuclear Deterrence

By Robert Green
December, 2000

Former Navy Commander Robert Green found out at first hand that the theory doesn’t actually work – and decided to make a stand.

 
 

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