NP? paranoid life imitates art

[Michael Kenny]

It's not a stretch of the imagination for terrorists to set
off dirty bombs in the US.

--Mike

--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> "[...] 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. [...] "
> 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/shor0612.html


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