Revisiting “Red Lines.” Saving Syria from Chemical Weapons by “Punishing” With Chemical Weapons?
“Two
centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with
Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a
monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe
have grown to appalling dimensions.” Frantz Fanon, 1961. (1925-1961.)
Against all odds, given the circumstances, the Syrian government has,
of Friday (20th September) sent an “initial declaration” of the
country’s (arguably defensive) weapons to the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. “The organization is
looking at ways to fast-track moves to secure and destroy Syria’s
chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities.” (1)
Putting aside the complexities of “fast-tracking” in a war zone,
flooded with foreign and foreign backed, armed and financed insurgents,
Syria is now, as Iraq and Libya before it, vulnerable to the massive
attack threatened by John Kerry, Acting Enforcer for the current Nobel
Laureate War-Monger-in-Chief, should he so choose.
“The threat of force is real”,
said Kerry, speaking aside his other Master, Benjamin Netanyahu, in
Israel after a hasty shuttle there last Sunday (15th September.). “We
cannot have hollow words”, said Kerry, a man without peer in vacuous
idiocies.
The following day the UN produced the weapons inspectors report on
the chemical attack in the Damascus suburbs on 21st August. Although the
thirty eight page Report did not apportion blame and in spite of all
the evidence to the contrary (news, websites) the Syrian government was
deemed culprit.
“It is the most significant confirmed use
of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them in
Halabja in 1988, and the worst use of weapons of mass destruction in
the 21st century,” said UN Secretary General Ki-moon.. “The
international community has a responsibility to ensure that chemical
weapons never re-emerge as an instrument of warfare.”
Talking to reporters the same day, Kerry pitched in with: ”… the military option is still on the table.”
However, a document, of August 2013, seems to show, despite official
denials by the Obama administration, that the Syrian insurgents are
capable of producing such poison gas.
“The document (2) reveals that sarin was confiscated earlier this
year from members of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of
the rebel (fundamentalists) fighting in Syria.
It cites: “ … sarin from al-Qaida in Iraq had made its way into
Turkey and that while some was seized, more could have been used in an
attack last March on civilians and Syrian military troops in an
artillery attack in the major Syrian city of Aleppo:
Moreover, Al Qaida in Iraq: “had
produced a ‘bench-scale’ form of sarin in Iraq and then transferred it
to Turkey where opposition forces, including Islamist militant foreign
fighters had access to it.
“There’s apparently a large stockpile of
sarin in Baghdad …Insurgents are using it to threaten the government
there in order to get prisoners released.”
But blind eye turning in US war mongering is the order of the occasion – for both eyes.
The US, of course is a
collective veteran when it comes to the use of chemical weapons. The
destroyed generations of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq,
emerging in Libya, of Yugoslavia, with their cancers and unimaginable
deformities are silent, ignored, decimated witnesses – and will be for
generations to come. Now Syria is threatened with chemical weapons on a
war crime defying scale.
On the September 11th, as America mourned its dead twelve years on, a
near unnoticed, interminably delayed World Health Organisation Report
was released into Iraq’s birth defects, cancers, and health anomalies
linked to the country’s twenty year bombardment by the US and UK with
Depleted Uranium – chemical and radioactive weaponry. White phosphorous
and other yet to be identified “exotic” people and child exterminators
were also used.
The UN-US Incorporated have done a shameful job of burying the
staggering, horrific resultant health epidemic along with the bodies..
As former UN Under Secretary General and UN Head in Iraq Hans von Sponeck has noted:
“The US government sought to prevent WHO
from surveying areas in southern Iraq where depleted uranium had been
used and caused serious health and environmental dangers.”
His colleague Denis Halliday also former UN Head in Iraq and Under Secretary General Under commented:
“The World Health Organisation (WHO) has
categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence
uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other
weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in
the birth of deformed babies.”
See: “Cover-up of War Crimes in Iraq: When ‘Damning Evidence’ on
Congenital Birth Defects becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed WHO
Report” (3) a shaming, shocking, and comprehensive read of indeed, a
cover-up of enormity.
Ironically, if Kerry has his way to “punish” the Syrian government
and entire civilian population for its non use of chemical weapons, this
latest Mesapotamian blitzkrieg to free Syria of a government whose “
sovereignty and territorial integrity” is “guaranteed” (lest we forget)
by the same duplicitous UN, will be rained on by the same chemical and
radioactive weapons which have brought genetic Armageddon to its
previous nation victims.
Here are the assessments of Depleted Uranium, in the US Army’s very
own words. This 1995 material is used, as when the scale of the
decimation, the birth defects, the cancers, including amongst their own
and allied troops, later Army assessments are more muted. The potential
for being sued until the end of time no doubt weighs heavy at the
Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence.
June 1995 “Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium Use in the US Army”, (US) Army Environmental Policy Unit:
“If DU enters the body it has the
potential to generate significant medical consequences. The risks
associated with DU are both chemical and radiological.” (p 101)
“No available technology can
significantly change the inherent chemical and radiological toxicity of
DU. These are intrinsic properties of uranium.” (p. xxii)
“DU is a … radioactive waste and
therefore must be deposited in a licensed repository.” (p. 154) Not
deposited on a church, mosque, school, hospital, home.
“Inhaled insoluble oxides stay in the
lungs longer and pose a potential cancer risk due to radiation. Ingested
DU dust can also pose both a radioactive and a toxicity risk …” (“Army
Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination”, US
General Accounting Office Report: GAO/NSIAD-93-90, January 1993, p.
14.)
“Health hazards occur primarily due to
internal exposures. Soluble forms present chemical hazards primarily to
the kidneys; insoluble forms present hazards to the lungs from ionizing
radiation … Short term effects of high doses can result in death, while
long terms effects of low doses have been implicated in cancer.” Science
Applications International Report. Kinetic Energy Penetrators, Long
Term Strategy Study, Danesi, July 1990 (SAIC, p. 4-12.)
A recent scientific study estimated that the earth has a life of 1.7
Billion Years. Depleted Uranium, of course, has a half-life of 4.5
Billion years.
Even in the litany of US crimes of enormity, Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Agent Orange, Napalm, White Phosphorous, this has a particular place in
infamy. A crime in which, it seems, the UN is both complicit and
covering up.
RIP those great founding words of 26th June 1945 in San Francisco:
“We the peoples of the United Nations,
determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations
large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and
respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of
international law can be maintained, and o promote social progress and
better standards of life in larger freedom, to practice tolerance and
live together in peace with one another as good neighbours …”
What a load of tosh.
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