NP? paranoid life imitates art

[Doug Millison]

"[...] To better locate the actual deployment of such dirty radiological
weapons, one should go back to the first Bush Administration (the elected
one). During the Gulf War, the Pentagon unleashed massive amounts of
depleted uranium (DU). According to Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of
the Pentagon's Depleted-Uranium Project, "numerous US Department of Defense
reports have stated that the consequences of DU were unknown. That is a
lie. They were told. They were warned." Furthermore, Rokke's assessment of
the consequences of DU, consequences that are part of the astronomical
increase in varieties of cancers among Iraqi children, provides chilling
evidence of the lethal impact of depleted uranium: "DU is the stuff of
nightmares. It is toxic, radioactive and pollutes for 4500 million years.
It causes lymphoma, neuro-psychotic disorders and short-term memory damage.
In semen, it causes birth defects and trashes the immune system."

Now, against this dire diagnosis of the effects of real radiological
weapons used time and again by the Pentagon, we have the fantasies of a
possible plot of maybe one "dirty bomb" in one US city. If this fantastic
and paranoid projection of an al-Qaeda bomb plot doesn't sound like John
Ashcroft's attempt to capitalize on the cinematic success of another
paranoid projection - "The Sum of All Fears" - then we're not paying
attention to how life imitates art. Or, in this case, how imperial policies
produce imperial projections and paranoia. [...] "

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