Iraq Nuked

I received the following in response to further infomation about the UN and the international coalition to ban uranium weapons

Hi all, ICBUW urgently needs your help in persuading your government to support a new resolution at the UN First Committee. The resolution is a continuation of the process started last November when a vast majority of states backed a resolution highlighting concerns over the health and environmental effects of uranium weapons.

The Non-Aligned Movement has now submitted a second resolution that will keep the issue alive in the UN for the next two years. ICBUW had hoped that the text would call for a moratorium but the political will is not there yet, particularly in a majority of NATO member states.

We need you and your member groups to contact your elected representatives and Foreign Ministries with a request that they support this resolution. The First Committee vote will be early in November, the General Assembly vote a month later. The resolution is entitled: A/C.1/63/L.26 Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium.

For a full copy of the text and more background please visit: http://www.bandepleteduranium.org

Last year many states were unprepared for the resolution and it passed with a huge majority, this year DU users and producers have been piling on
the pressure so the outcome is far less assured. People power can make a huge difference to this campaign and now is the time to apply it.

I have written a model letter for you to use below, although if you can add to and alter it to make it your own please do so.

Kind regards

Doug Weir
Coordinator

Send this to your local elected representative and your Foreign Minister:

Dear_______

I am deeply concerned about the continued use of conventional weapons containing uranium. Because of their long-term impact on human health and the environment i believe they breach the basic norms of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions.

The United Nations First Committee will vote on a resolution calling for further research on the issue at the start of November and I firmly believe that our country should support it.

While detailed epidemiological evidence from areas where these weapons have been used is still being gathered, the vast majority of in-vitro studies suggest that uranium weapons constitute a long-term hazard to the military and civilians alike. The evidence is already strong enough to support swift action under the Precautionary Principle - if this was an issue of consumer or domestic environmental safety they would already be banned.

The weapons are already banned in Belgium and in May this year 94% of MEPs backed a resolution calling for a global moratorium on their use. Therefore I urge you to support A/C.1/63/L.26 ' Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium' at the UN First Committee and the General Assembly.

Sincerely,
You

The only life lower than vermin or parasites are the people who sanction these atrocoties on the human race.

The government of the USA should hold its head in shame but I fear this is unlikley as they fall into the above catagories and know no shame

The call is to ban depleted uranium but is this a little too late? The call should be to call for the heads of those advocated its use in the first instance and let true justice be dispensed

what a total mess Joe Biden wanted to divide Iraq into the three partsof which I assume were the ones in existence before WW2 then post war the Brits/us? decided Iraq should be all one. Well these had been separete tribes for thousands yrs..shei,bathe,sunnis [sp?] let them do it!!!

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/198.html

Wanamoka thx for the site reference.

Yes, divestment is a great place to apply pressure. But pushing an international ban on any military use of depleted uranium is the final goal.

http://www.cadu.org.uk/

Is it time for the UN to ban all depleted uranium weapons?

The American people are guilty of Genocide.

I am disgusted, and did not realise how we starved all those children of food, water and medicine, no wonder they hate us. We gave them Cancer for gods sake.

And to see an American Ex Attorney general, Military Generals and members of the United Nations, and Department of State confirm this...

This is Bush McCain policy, this is what they want to continue. McCain says for 'One hundred years'

The say our bombing children with depleted uranium is defensive, how exactly?

What have the government done to our souls?
They have sold the soul of every American citizen to evil, for oil, for cars, for 'The American way'

If you were an Iraqi Mother or father or orphaned child, what would you feel towards the US?

That is the legacy, that's the scariest thing of all, and now we are doing it in Afghanistan too

Let it sink in, wanamoka, digest it. Then, you'll know what to do within the limits of your power. As they so rightly say, the truth shall set you free. Free from the lies, the propaganda, free from the hold they may have had on you. What you do with this knowledge, this information, is up to you - according to your means, your character, your environment, your capacities, your availabilities, etc. Mostly, share this information with as many people as you can. Once a critical mass of aware and awakened people is reached, you'll be surprised what can be achieved.

Damn, Damn, Damn, those bunch of fu*&ing bastard lying, fu*& ups.

Now what do I do with this information V? tell me because I just want to choke someone.

The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et. al. familes should be sent to live in Iraq in the center of all that radiation. Buried in the sand up to their necks and left there to rot, while vultures pluck their eyes out.

No, the title is not misleading at all - watch the video all the way through.

misleading title. interesting video though

Indeed, Bush coveted Iraqi oil and tried to steal it. But the heist cost US citizens trillions in the process. The war was fought on phony baloney money. It's the very source of the current economic crash. The bill has come due and everyone is left holding the bag. THE US IS BANKRUPT!

And...morally bankrupt as well.

Avarice