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Uranium in Iraq: the Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars,
Review of Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Joanne Baker's
book
When a projectile made with DU penetrates a
vehicle, small pieces of DU can scatter and become embedded in muscle and soft
tissue. In addition to DU in wounds, Service members exposed to DU in struck
vehicles may inhale or swallow small airborne DU particles. Some Gulf War,
Bosnia, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and
Operation New Dawn (OND) Veterans who may have been exposed to DU are those who
were: on, in or near vehicles hit with friendly fire; entering or near burning
vehicles; near fires involving DU munitions; or salvaging damaged vehicles.
“Hegel
remarks upon the appearance of “concrete evil” in history, the intermittent
eruption of human malevolence on a colossal scale capable of destroying entire
societies. Perpetrators of world-historical crimes are propelled solely
by passion—by self-regard, greed and hatred—and pay no heed, Hegel noted, to
“order and moderation, justice and morality.” {my emphasis} The imperialist assault on
Iraq—which began with the First Gulf War, reached a peak with “shock and awe”
attacks launched by U.S./U.K military forces in 2003, and continues today,
nearly twenty years later—offers a horrendous example of unrestrained evil
spread across a titanic canvas.
Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s and Joanne Baker’s indispensable book
spotlights the appalling criminal enterprise now working itself out in Iraq:
Deliberate contamination of the Iraqi nation, its peoples, and natural
environment with radiation from previously unheard of weapons of mass
destruction—deadly implements of war fashioned from a practically inexhaustible
global garbage dump of depleted uranium (DU)."
Uranium in Iraq: the Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars,
Review of Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Joanne Baker's
book
15 November 2009
For
those privileged American “heroes” who pulled the triggers:
They get these:
Compensation benefits for health problems
Veterans may file a claim for disability
compensation for health problems they believe are related to exposure to
depleted uranium during service. VA decides these claims on a case-by-case
basis. File a claim online."
But
for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians impacted by the
American spread DU, they get no compensation nor even "humanitarian"
international care and attention; e.g. from the United Nations' World
Health Organization (WHO).
(PS:
WHO established REMPAN in 1987, shortly after the Chernobyl accident, with the
objective of meeting its requirements under the Conventions on Early
Notification and Assistance in the case of nuclear and radiation accidents. However,the
extensive contamination of Iraq and many of its citizens by American DU is not
considered by WHO to be an accident).