Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
June 12, 2007
"If I had a rocket launcher some son of a bitch would die" - Bruce Cockburn
"The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential."
"Depleted uranium munitions have been used extensively by NATO forces in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Described as the Trojan Horse of nuclear war,
depleted uranium is the weapon that keeps killing. The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth. And, as Uranium-238 decays into daughter radioactive products, in four steps before turning into lead, it continues to release more radiation at each step. There is no way to turn it off, and there is no way
to clean it up. It meets the US Government’s own definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction."
The use of these weapons is nothing short of genocide.
The use of depleted uranium munitions is clearly illegal under international law:
Four reasons why using depleted uranium weapons violates the UN Convention on Human Rights:
LEGALITY TEST FOR WEAPONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
- TEMPORAL TEST – Weapons must not continue to act after the battle is over.
- ENVIRONMENTAL TEST – Weapons must not be unduly harmful to the environment.
- TERRITORIAL TEST – Weapons must not act off of the battlefield.
- HUMANENESS TEST – Weapons must not kill or wound inhumanly."
"International Human Rights and humanitarian lawyer, Karen Parker, determined that depleted uranium weaponry fails the four tests for legal weapons under international law, and that it is also illegal under the definition of a 'poison' weapon."
Even the locals know they have been destroyed. This statement is so powerful any
truly human person will cry when they read it:
"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death. When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of the future have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah. This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America, a silent death from which I know we will not escape." (Jooma Khan of Laghman province, March 2003)
I think I'm going to throw up.
Check out the article by Leuren Moret at GlobalResearch.ca
Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War