Radioactive Tank No. 9 Comes Limping Home

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SF BayView.com by Bob Nichols - 3/22/06

Across the plains of Kansas, destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks, perched on railroad flatcars, rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting death mask. The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium.

The Pentagon can't even follow simple radiation hazard mitigation instructions. Their own rules and regulations have the force of law throughout the world. Yet they are ignored in the United States...Dr. Doug Rokke is the Pentagon's former director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project. When contacted on Oct. 22, he viewed Chris Bayruh's photographs and made this statement about the radioactive tanks in Kansas: "The radioactive damaged Abrams tanks that were left unsecured on a Kansas railroad track are a perfect example of exactly how not to ship damaged radioactive equipment and how not to protect our Army's Abrams tanks from possible sabotage and compromise of classified battle systems

The U.S. military shows so little regard for Americans in Kansas, one wonders what on earth they have done to Iraq. The U.S. military has distributed an estimated 8 million pounds of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, aerosols and dust on a practically defenseless little country of 26 million people, according to an estimate by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Another explanation is that the U.S. Army and other branches of the military are far from stupid. They are, in fact, the most lethal and carefully planned military in the history of the world. The extensive use of weaponized uranium oxide gas, aerosols and dust is not an accident or an oversight. They did it on purpose.

http://www.sfbayview.com/110905/radioactivetank110905.shtml

[MrModerate]

1. That would be counter to their neocon fantasies . . .

Iraq was supposed to become a contented client of the world's sole remaining superpower. By strewing long-term toxics around the country, we guarantee huge future medical bills and a general lowering of productivity for generations.

I don't think it was a plot: basically the generals thought of Iraqis as the enemy and didn't give a rat's ass about the postwar environment -- remember, they were being told they'd only be in-country for a few months. Sloppy and without foresight (notable characteristics of the whole Iraq disaster).

[acmavm]

2. These people don't give a damn who they kill. Americans (obviously)

or Iraqis (for years to come).

We are a war crime nation thanks to bush** and Co.