Revisiting “Red Lines.” Saving Syria from Chemical Weapons by “Punishing” With Chemical Weapons?
Global Research, September 20, 2013
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“Two centuries ago, a former European
colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United
States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the
inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” Frantz
Fanon, 1961. (1925-1961.)
Against
all odds, given the circumstances, the Syrian government has, of Friday (20th
September) sent an “initial declaration” of the country’s (arguably defensive)
weapons to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The
Hague. “The organization is looking at ways to fast-track moves to secure and
destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities.” (1)
Putting
aside the complexities of “fast-tracking” in a war zone, flooded with foreign
and foreign backed, armed and financed insurgents, Syria is now, as Iraq and
Libya before it, vulnerable to the massive attack threatened by John Kerry,
Acting Enforcer for the current Nobel Laureate War-Monger-in-Chief, should he
so choose.
“The threat of force
is real”, said Kerry, speaking aside his other Master, Benjamin Netanyahu, in
Israel after a hasty shuttle there last Sunday (15th September.). “We cannot
have hollow words”, said Kerry, a man without peer in vacuous idiocies.
The
following day the UN produced the weapons inspectors report on the chemical
attack in the Damascus suburbs on 21st August. Although the thirty eight page
Report did not apportion blame and in spite of all the evidence to the contrary
(news, websites) the Syrian government was deemed culprit.
“It
is the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians
since Saddam Hussein used them in Halabja in 1988, and the worst use of weapons
of mass destruction in the 21st century,” said UN Secretary General Ki-moon..
“The international community has a responsibility to ensure that chemical
weapons never re-emerge as an instrument of warfare.”
Talking
to reporters the same day, Kerry pitched in with: ”... the military option is
still on the table.”
However,
a document, of August 2013, seems to show, despite official denials by the
Obama administration, that the Syrian insurgents are capable of producing such
poison gas.
“The
document (2) reveals that sarin was confiscated earlier this year from members
of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of the rebel
(fundamentalists) fighting in Syria.
It
cites: “ ... sarin from al-Qaida in Iraq had made its way into Turkey and that
while some was seized, more could have been used in an attack last March on
civilians and Syrian military troops in an artillery attack in the major Syrian
city of Aleppo:
Moreover, Al Qaida in
Iraq: “had produced a ‘bench-scale’ form of sarin in Iraq and then transferred
it to Turkey where opposition forces, including Islamist militant foreign
fighters had access to it.
“There’s
apparently a large stockpile of sarin in Baghdad ...Insurgents are using it to
threaten the government there in order to get prisoners released.”
But
blind eye turning in US war mongering is the order of the occasion – for both
eyes.
The US, of course is a
collective veteran when it comes to the use of chemical weapons. The destroyed
generations of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, emerging in Libya,
of Yugoslavia, with their cancers and unimaginable deformities are silent,
ignored, decimated witnesses – and will be for generations to come. Now Syria
is threatened with chemical weapons on a war crime defying scale.
On
the September 11th, as America mourned its dead twelve years on, a near
unnoticed, interminably delayed World Health Organisation Report was released
into Iraq’s birth defects, cancers, and health anomalies linked to the
country’s twenty year bombardment by the US and UK with Depleted Uranium –
chemical and radioactive weaponry. White phosphorous and other yet to be
identified “exotic” people and child exterminators were also used.
The
UN-US Incorporated have done a shameful job of burying the staggering, horrific
resultant health epidemic along with the bodies..
As
former UN Under Secretary General and UN Head in Iraq Hans von Sponeck has
noted:
“The
US government sought to prevent WHO from surveying areas in southern Iraq where
depleted uranium had been used and caused serious health and environmental
dangers.”
His
colleague Denis Halliday also former UN Head in Iraq and Under Secretary
General Under commented:
“The
World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its
own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of
Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but
continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.”
See:
“Cover-up of War Crimes in Iraq: When ‘Damning Evidence’ on Congenital Birth
Defects becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed WHO Report” (3) a shaming,
shocking, and comprehensive read of indeed, a cover-up of enormity.
Ironically,
if Kerry has his way to “punish” the Syrian government and entire civilian
population for its non use of chemical weapons, this latest Mesapotamian
blitzkrieg to free Syria of a government whose “ sovereignty and territorial
integrity” is “guaranteed” (lest we forget) by the same duplicitous UN, will be
rained on by the same chemical and radioactive weapons which have brought
genetic Armageddon to its previous nation victims.
Here
are the assessments of Depleted Uranium, in the US Army’s very own words. This
1995 material is used, as when the scale of the decimation, the birth defects,
the cancers, including amongst their own and allied troops, later Army
assessments are more muted. The potential for being sued until the end of time
no doubt weighs heavy at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence.
June
1995 “Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium Use in the US
Army”, (US) Army Environmental Policy Unit:
“If
DU enters the body it has the potential to generate significant medical
consequences. The risks associated with DU are both chemical and radiological.”
(p 101)
“No
available technology can significantly change the inherent chemical and
radiological toxicity of DU. These are intrinsic properties of uranium.” (p.
xxii)
“DU
is a … radioactive waste and therefore must be deposited in a licensed
repository.” (p. 154) Not deposited on a church, mosque, school, hospital,
home.
“Inhaled
insoluble oxides stay in the lungs longer and pose a potential cancer risk due
to radiation. Ingested DU dust can also pose both a radioactive and a toxicity
risk …” (“Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium
Contamination”, US General Accounting Office Report: GAO/NSIAD-93-90, January
1993, p. 14.)
“Health
hazards occur primarily due to internal exposures. Soluble forms present
chemical hazards primarily to the kidneys; insoluble forms present hazards to
the lungs from ionizing radiation … Short term effects of high doses can result
in death, while long terms effects of low doses have been implicated in
cancer.” Science Applications International Report. Kinetic Energy Penetrators,
Long Term Strategy Study, Danesi, July 1990 (SAIC, p. 4-12.)
A
recent scientific study estimated that the earth has a life of 1.7 Billion
Years. Depleted Uranium, of course, has a half-life of 4.5 Billion years.
Even
in the litany of US crimes of enormity, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Agent Orange,
Napalm, White Phosphorous, this has a particular place in infamy. A crime in
which, it seems, the UN is both complicit and covering up.
RIP
those great founding words of 26th June 1945 in San Francisco:
“We
the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations
from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow
to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity
and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of
nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect
for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international
law can be maintained, and o promote social progress and better standards of
life in larger freedom, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with
one another as good neighbours ...”
What
a load of tosh.
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