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Dear CASI list,
I need help locating evidence that the US/UK targetted Iraq's
water system, for a piece I'm writing ``The Real Bioterrorism''.
I found this old message from the list, but can anyone point me
to the original sources or other sources? Thanks.
I noticed, by the way, a single sentence ``The Taliban claimed
the US bombed a dam'' a few days ago. So with the destruction of
whatever frail power generating capability Afghanistan had, we're
watching the same crimes again.
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+ Phone: +44-(0)20-7882-5047 London E1 4NS. +
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:27:06 -0800 (PST)
From: IRIS Author <iris_author@yahoo.com>
To: CASI <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk>, IAC <iac-discussion@egroups.com>
Subject: Bitter fruit from seeds of hate
Bitter fruit from seeds of hate
By Charley Reese
Commentary
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on
November 26, 2000
Most Americans don't realize how
heinous our own
government has been in its foreign
policy.
The Sunday Herald, a Scottish
newspaper, last
September reported that the United
States and its allies
deliberately destroyed Iraq's water
supply and in the
nine years since have deliberately
prevented it from
being repaired by keeping out the
equipment and
chemicals necessary.
A Georgetown University professor has
obtained a
seven-page document, prepared by the
Defense
Intelligence Agency, that pointed out
the vulnerability of
the water system, its dependence on
imported
equipment and chemicals, and the
likely consequences
of its destruction.
The report was dead accurate. The
United States and its
allies destroyed the system. The
Sunday Herald
reported that eight multipurpose dams
were repeatedly
bombed, smashing the infrastructure
for flood control,
municipal and industrial water
storage, irrigation and
hydroelectric power. Four of Iraq's
seven major
pumping stations were destroyed, as
were 31 municipal
water and sewage facilities.
The result: Water-borne diseases --
typhoid, dysentery,
hepatitis, cholera and polio -- have
killed thousands of
civilians in Iraq. There is always a
rough justice in the
universe, however. The Sunday Times
has reported that
tens of thousands of American and
British troops are
suffering from radiation poisoning
from the depleted
uranium shells fired during the Gulf
War. No wonder
both governments are trying to deny
that Gulf War
Syndrome even exists.
The water-supply system, which we
attacked, had
absolutely nothing to do with
supplying or supporting the
Iraqi troops in Kuwait. It was a
deliberate,
cold-blooded attack, intended to kill
and sicken Iraqi
civilians. It was a war crime.
People who like to yap about the rule
of law should see
to it that their own government obeys
the law.
The new president of Yugoslavia has
our number when
it comes to the rule of law. He said,
"Washington
introduced into the rule of law
everything that is opposed
to the rule of law: voluntarianism,
insecurity and
arbitrariness."
It's one thing to knock out
communications towers,
bridges and ammunition dumps, but a
city's sewer and
water system has nothing to do with
the military. Taking
those out seems more malicious than
any American
would be capable of -- unless you've
met some of the
unthinking automatons and some of the
heartless sharks
who infect the Beltway. They flit
around like wraiths,
whispering their poisonous malice into
the ears of the
office holders.
It would be comforting to imagine that
one day the
American people will elect to public
office men and
women who make clear to the world that
we do not
make war on women and children.
Unfortunately, I fear that the cruelty
and disregard for
human life and human rights is a
reflection of the
American people's own attitudes. So
long as the victims
are "the others" -- foreigners -- most
Americans don't
seem to give a flip what is done to
them.
One hates to keep returning to the
universal wisdom of
religion, but what one sows one reaps.
Our government
has, in our name, been sowing hate,
and one day we will
reap the fruit of that hate. It will
be bitter fruit.
It will not be much consolation, if
one day someone
poisons our water supply, to know that
that person got
the idea from the U.S. Defense
Intelligence Agency.
We need a new, more benign emperor in
our Rome on
the Potomac.
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