(trouble in the Green Zone) Two Green Zones

[donsu]

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000272.php


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I get emails daily from sources throughout Iraq…both Iraqi and American. Even inside US bases in the newest colony things don’t seem to be going so well, according to an American man who is working there as support.

“I don’t know how much longer I can stand working for these idiots and their brothers’ mothers’ sisters’ cousin,” he wrote me recently, “They have acres of armored air conditioned trucks but won’t pay to fix the alternators, so the drivers must use the worst of the equipment…no armor, no air conditioning…You know the heat here, now add the heat of an engine to that cab and throw in a few rockets, mortars, and IED’s and it makes for a very bad day. I’m trying to expose the corruption of the Third Country National contractors by finding them a forum to send the truth. Prisoners, slaves, concubines. My life may be a contradiction, but I will not compromise with evil. The enemy is inside the wire.”

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And there is a reason why soldiers like Nicolas Prubyla come home and join organizations like Iraq Veterans Against the War.

“Up until five days ago, I had large amounts of blood in my stool,” he told me recently, “I’ve felt tired all the time, I have had loss of hair…loss of the feeling in my right arm…I’m battling this stuff.”

What he is battling is exposure to uranium munitions in Iraq. He is battling radiation sickness as the result of the most recent nuclear war waged by the United States of America. There is a reason why over 11,000 veterans from the ’91 Gulf War are dead today, and over 250,000 others are on medical disability. That reason (hundreds and hundreds of tons of uranium munitions dropped on Iraq) is the same thing Prubyla is battling today.

“As the years go on this is going to effect a hell of a lot more people than we think…radioactive dust and the clouds of smoke and dust from firing the DU is getting to us now,” he said, “And I know I’m not the only person in my unit-my boss got diagnosed with cancer, one of my other buddies who is 23 years-old is getting rashes….every time I do more research on DU-I’m seeing that I have all the side effects.”

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Meanwhile in the Crawford “Green Zone,” Mr. Bush chooses to ignore the resistance movement that is standing outside his fence. But that is alright, because the hundreds of people there now protesting represent tens (if not hundreds) of millions across the country who, like the Iraqi resistance, are not going to go away.
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america is a crime scene including the Iraqi and faux ranch Green Zones

drag the criminal bushgang out of the white house and into prison

[Bobbieo]

1. Nuclear Material in Iraq

Where is the nuclear stuff - in American or Iraq munitions? I believe it as I had a friend come home from the Gulf War. He was never the same again. It started out with loss of his hair in huge patches.