{"id":1178,"date":"2007-09-04T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/why-we-must-not-go-to-war-with-iran\/1178\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:30:13","slug":"why-we-must-not-go-to-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/why-we-must-not-go-to-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Must Not Go to War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">By <\/font><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/author\/author7550.html\"><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Steve Beckow<\/font><\/em><\/a><em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">\u00a0<\/font><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Webster Tarpley, Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0and others have warned that an attack on Iran by the American military is \u201cimminent.\u201d<span> <\/span>(1) <span>\u00a0<\/span>Ray McGovern asks if we have the courage to stop the Bush Administration from making war on Iran. <span>\u00a0<\/span>(2)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">If we don\u2019t stop the Bush administration from going to war with Iran, we as a planet may very well face what radiation experts are calling \u201comnicide.\u201d (3) <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">What does it mean? Consider these facts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Depleted-uranium (DU) weapons, when fired, create a DU aerosol of<span> <\/span>ceramic nanoparticles.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Ingestion of DU or contact with it delibilitates or kills.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Simple exposure to unfired DU weapons can contaminate.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">There is no safe exposure limit to DU.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Protective gear does not protect.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU infects spouses\/mothers through semen transfer and families through contact with contaminating objects.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU leads to horrible birth defects in babies.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Women and children are the most susceptible<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU has a half life of 4.5 billion years. <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU travels globally on the winds.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU cannot be cleaned up.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">There is no known treatment for DU contamination.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">* * * * *<\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">If we are to prevent a global DU catastrophe, which a war in Iran would bring, we need to consider these facts. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Depleted-uranium (DU) weapons, when fired, create a DU aerosol of ceramic nanoparticles.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Depleted-uranium (DU) weapons are used because uranium is a very dense metal that can penetrate concrete, steel, sandbag bunkers, or virtually anything.<span> <\/span>(4)<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>The fragments that break off on impact <\/span><span>emit Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and X-ray radiation at a rate of 4.15 million electron volts (the voltage in a normal cell is 10 electron volts). Anyone in the immediate area is usually killed outright. <span>\u00a0<\/span>(5)<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><span style=\"color: black\">However, worse than the damage it does immediately, DU turns into an infinitesimally fine dust after it explodes.<span> <\/span>Its deadly radioactive particles are smaller than a virus or bacteria and can be carried as an aerosol in the wind.<span> <\/span><\/span>(6) <\/font><\/font><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Ingestion of DU or contact with it debilitates or kills.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Internationally-recognized radiation scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell warns that DU nanoparticles can be breathed in by anyone: a baby, a pregnant woman, the elderly, the sick. <span>\u00a0<\/span>The radioactive ceramic dust can stay deep in the lungs for years, irradiating the tissue with powerful alpha particles within about a 30 micron sphere, causing emphysema and\/or fibrosis. The ceramic can also be swallowed and do damage to the gastro-intestinal tract. In time, it penetrates the lung tissue and enters into the blood stream. (7) <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">According to former Laurence Livermore geoscientist Dr. Leuren Moret, <span style=\"layout-grid-mode: both\">the invisible particles can reach sensitive targets, including the lymph nodes, spleen, heart, and central nervous system.<span> <\/span>(8)<span> <\/span>They can be found in the semen, bone marrow, and lungs.<span> <\/span>(9) <\/span>DU can give rise to a range of fata cancers as well as more than 100 serious illnesses from fibromyalgia to Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. (10) <span style=\"layout-grid-mode: both\"><\/span><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">In other words, in her view, \u201cdepleted uranium is a death sentence.\u201d<span> <\/span>(11)<\/font><\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Protective gear does not protect.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">There are several myths about DU. One is that the protective gear issued to soldiers actually does protect them from ingestion and contamination. <span>\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Moret advises that DU \u201cwill permeate a standard gas mask filter in quantities large enough to be extremely damaging.&#8221;<span> (12)<\/span><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">U.S. Army Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer Dr. Doug Rokke goes further.<span> <\/span>Rokke was the man in charge of the \u201cclean-up\u201d after Gulf War 1. He says the protective gear were ineffective in saving soldiers from DU ingestion.<\/font><\/font><\/span><strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><span>When I talked to senior Manhattan Project scientists that were expert particle physicists, they said \u2014 \u2018Hey, we knew when uranium breaks up like this, it was going to be down in the .1-.2 micron range.\u2019<span> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u201cNo doubt about it.<span> <\/span>The gas masks, the respiratory protection issued to the troops \u2014 there\u2019s no way it can protect against inhalation.<span> <\/span>Well, that\u2019s what happened to myself and my team.<span> <\/span>We wore the respiratory protection during Gulf War I, inhaled it, and got sick.\u201d<span> <\/span>(13)<\/font><\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Simple exposure to unfired DU weapons can contaminate.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Another myth is that simple exposure to unfired anti-tank shells and bunker-buster bombs will not result in radioactive contamination. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">In the video, <em>Beyond Treason<\/em>, Lt. Col. John Karl Marks, 303rd Fighter Squadron, offers this view: there is \u201ca very minor amount of radioactivity [in an unfired shell], but it\u2019s not anything. \u2026 As long as it\u2019s in its bullet form it can be stored and it\u2019s not any type of hazardous material.\u201d <span>\u00a0<\/span>(14) <\/font><\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">But in fact, according to Dr. Moret, many veterans have been reporting illnesses through proximity to unfired shells and bombs. For instance, gunners in Bradley vehicles who sat on boxes of DU shells are now reporting rectal cancer. (15)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">There is no safe-exposure limit to DU.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">A third myth is that there is a threshold, a safe-exposure limit, below which one can contact DU and not suffer. This too is in fact not true.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><span style=\"color: black\">According to Dr. Moret, \u201ct<\/span>he amount necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the material is extremely small.\u201d \u201cI<span style=\"color: black\">t is estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person&#8217;s body would be fatal.\u201d (16)<span> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Dr. Moret points to National Academy of Sciences studies that indicate there is &#8220;no safe level of exposure&#8221; for DU. (17)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU infects spouses\/mothers through semen transfer and familiy members through contact with contaminating objects.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">According to Dr. Moret, because a soldier\u2019s semen is contaminated from DU particles, when he returns home he can contaminate his wife or partner.<span> <\/span>(18)<span> <\/span>Whole families can be affected.<span> <\/span>Staff Sergeant Bob Jones, a former Army Ranger and veteran of Desert Storm, is now retired and disabled due to Gulf War Illness.<span> <\/span>Not only is he ill, but his entire immediate family all suffer from <em>mycoplasma fermentans incognitos<\/em>. (19)<span> <\/span>The manner in which they were treated by the Veterans Administration should also be noted. <\/font><\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t so much my illness, but my family was also ill and they required medical attention and medical treatment \u2014 real medical treatment.<span> <\/span>I retired in June of last year \u2014 June 2003.<span> <\/span>As soon as I retired my family was completely dropped from the military medical system.<span> <\/span>\u2026<span> <\/span>Although I begged and pleaded<span> <\/span>they would not let my family re-enroll back into the Womack Family Practice.<span> <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u201cSo in essence, my wife was completely cut off from all the medications and all the treatment that she had received for the past seven years. \u2026 \u2014Cause she was also a victim of these exposures that I brought home from the Gulf War \u2014 from my equipment and my personal exposure, as I eluded to earlier \u2014 from personal bodily contact\u2026 and uh that to me is the greatest travesty.<span> <\/span>I just can\u2019t imagine how \u2026 you have innocent family members and loved ones that never put their hand up and swore allegiance to fight and defend the constitution of the United States and they get kicked to the curb and nobody cares.\u201d (20)<\/font><\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU leads to horrible birth defects in babies.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Even minute trace amounts of DU in semen can bond with DNA, \u201cwhere they wreak havoc with cells \u2014 especially the cells of developing fetuses.\u201d (21) In some cases there are no indications that the baby is not healthy and yet it dies. Said Staff Sergeant Jones:<span style=\"color: black\"><\/span><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u201c<span>Some of us that conceived children after the war \u2014 and I know of at least two individuals where their children were born perfectly healthy according the hospital &#8211; and within six months after their return their hearts literally exploded in their chests.\u201d<span> <\/span>(22)<\/span><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span style=\"color: black\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Birth defects have skyrocketed in every DU-contaminated region.<span> <\/span>They are quite elevated in Afghanistan since the invasion:<span> <\/span>children &#8220;born with no eyes, no limbs, tumors protruding from their mouths &#8230; deformed genitalia.&#8221; (23)<\/font><\/font><\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Women and children are the most susceptible<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><span style=\"layout-grid-mode: both\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">British researcher Dai Williams states that \u201cwomen and children \u2026 are most vulnerable to internal radiation and chromosome damage owing to higher rates of cell division.\u201d (24) <\/font><\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">The first signs of children succumbing to DU poisoning are herpes on the mouth and skin rashes on the back and ankles.<span> <\/span>These cases develop into childhood cancers, leukemia, Hodkin\u2019s disease, and lymphomas.<span> <\/span>(25)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Pedriatic examination of Iraqi children confirm that:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u201cChildhood leukemia has risen 600% in the areas [of Iraq] where DU was used. Stillbirths, births or abortion of fetuses with monstrous abnormalities, and other cancers in children born since [the Gulf War in] 1991 have also been found.\u201d (26) <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU has a half life of 4.5 billion years. <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">We must keep in mind that the conditions we are describing will not go away. DU has a half life of 4.5 billion years, the same as the age of the Earth itself. (27) <span>\u00a0<\/span>It is a problem which, far from lessening over time, will likely increase by orders of magnitude as the DU particles travel around the globe. <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU travels globally on the winds.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">According to Dr. Moret, DU is everywhere.<span> <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">DU does not respect sides in a battle. For instance, Israel, an ally of the United States, lies downwind of Iraq and is suffering from <span>large increases in breast cancer, leukemia and childhood diabetes. \u00a0(28)<span> <\/span>Britain recorded the highest levels of DU ever measured after the Tora Bora bombings and the \u201cShock and Awe\u2019 assault of 2003. (29)<\/span><\/font><\/font><span><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">Moreover, it does not take long for DU to travel. Within 7-9 days of the \u201cShock and Awe\u201d campaign, very fine particles of DU were captured by filters 2400 miles away in Britain. (30)<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Take action &#8212; click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usalone.net\/cgi-bin\/oen.cgi?qnum=2574\">Stop the Catastrophic DU War with Iran<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usalone.net\/cgi-bin\/transparency.cgi?qnum=oen2574\">Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">www.freewebs.com\/truthseeker22<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I&#8217;m a former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and a former Historian at the National Museum of Man in Canada. I am now retired. As a Member of the IRB, my job was to evaluate refugee claims. As a Historian, I specialized in racism and historical theory. I have also published in cross-cultural spirituality.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Beckow\u00a0 &nbsp; Webster Tarpley, Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0and others have warned that an attack on Iran by the American military is \u201cimminent.\u201d (1) \u00a0Ray McGovern asks if we have the courage to stop the Bush Administration from making war on Iran. \u00a0(2) \u00a0 If we don\u2019t stop the Bush administration from going to war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-1178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}