Omnicide: The end of life on this planet
Prof. Elias Tuma stated that “to attack Iran's nuclear facilities ... could ... unleash clouds of radiation far beyond the targets and the borders of Iran." (45) He is undoubtedly correct but he does not even mention the radioactivity that will come from thousands of tons of DU released in the first “Shock and Awe” assault. The International Criminal Tribunal on Afghanistan accepted the term “omnicide” to describe the outcome of war prosecuted with DU weapons. Dr. Rosalie Bertell defined the term:
“The concept of species annihilation means a relatively swift, deliberately induced end to history, culture, science, biological reproduction and memory. It is the ultimate human rejection of the gift of life, an act which requires a new word to describe it as omnicide."(46)
Dr. Bertell adds:
“Our collective gene pool of life, evolving for hundreds of millions of years has been seriously damaged in less than the past fifty. The time remaining to reverse this culture of ‘lemming death’ is on the wane. In the future, what will you tell our grandchildren about what you did in the prime of your life to turn around this death process?" (47)
Dr. Moret adds: “There are just a few generations left before the collapse of our environment.” (48) These words were said before a war with Iran seemed imminent. It may be that the extra load of thousands of tons of DU released to “Shock and Awe” the Iranians may have the truly shocking and awful effect of rendering Planet Earth eventually uninhabitable.
Notes
(1) Paul Craig Roberts, “My wake-up call: Watch for Another 9/11 WMD Experience,” Online Journal, 20 July 2007; Paul Craig Roberts, “Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy,” Counterpunch, July 16, 2007; Webster G. Tarpley, “Cheney determined to strike in US with WMD this summer; only impeachment and removal, or a general strike, can stop him,” Online Journal, 23 July 2007, downloaded from http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2220.shtml, 6 August 2007; see also, as background, Michel Chossudovsky, “The Pentagon's ‘Second 911.’ ‘Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets.’" Global Research, 10 Aug. 2006.
(2) Ray McGovern, “Do We Have the Courage to Stop War with Iran?”, Opednews.com, downloaded from http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ray_mcgo_070831_do_we_have_the_coura.htm, 31 Aug. 2007.
(3) Internationally-renowned radiation expert Dr. Rosalie Bertell, quoted in judgement of Professor Ms Niloufer Bhagwat J, International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo, 13 March 2004, downloaded from http://www.traprockpeace.org/tokyo_trial_13march04.doc, 30 Aug. 2007.
(4) Lt. Col. John Karl Marks, 303rd Fighter Squadron, in Beyond Treason, video, produced by the Power Hour, 2005.(5) U.S. Army Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer Dr. Doug Rokke in Beyond Treason, ibid.(6) Dr. Leuren Moret quoted in Robert C. Koehler, “Depleted Uranium (DU): Silent Genocide,” Tribune Media Services, 25 March 2004, downloaded from http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Silent-Genocide25mar04.htm, 29 Aug. 2007; Dr. Rosalie Bertell cited in Michel Chossudovsky, “Low Intensity Nuclear War,” Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, 2001, downloaded from http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/issues/kosovo/chossudovsky_lowintensity.html, 26 Aug. 2007.(7) Dr. Rosalie Bertell cited in Michel Chossudovsky, ibid.
(8) Dr. Craig Etcheson, Center for Non-Violent Alternatives, Fort Ashby, W.Va., “Depleted Uranium: Pernicious Killer Keeps on Killing,” t r u t h o u t, 19 February 2007, downloaded from http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021907G.shtml, 31 Aug. 2007.(9) Dr. Moret in Beyond Treason, ibid.(10) Dr. Leuren Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,” World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, 1 July 2004, downloaded from http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm, 26 Aug. 2007.(11) Dr. Moret in video Beyond Treason, ibid.(12) Dr. Leuren Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,” World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, 1 July 2004, downloaded from http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm, 26 Aug. 2007.)(13) Dr. Doug Rokke in Beyond Treason, ibid. (14) Beyond Treason, ibid.(15) Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,” ibid.(16) Ibid.; also Koehler, ibid.(17) Dr. Leuren Moret, “The Queen’s Death Star: Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle East,” Mindfully.org, 26 Feb. 2006, downloaded from http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Moret26feb06.htm, 30 Aug. 2007. (18) Dr. Moret in Beyond Treason, ibid.; see also Capt. Joyce Riley, USAFR, in same video.(19) Beyond Treason, ibid.(20) Staff Sergeant Bob Jones in Beyond Treason, ibid.(21) Dave Lindorff, “DU, the Ticking Nuke in Bush’s White House War Room,” San Francisco Bay View, 25 Jan. 2006, downloaded from http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Bush-War25jan06.htm, 26 Aug. 2007.(22) Staff Sergeant Jones in Beyond Treason, ibid.(23) Koehler, ibid. (24) Dai Williams, Hazards of Uranium Weapons in the Proposed War on Iraq, 22 Sept. 2002.(25) Chossudovsky, ibid.(26) Loc. cit.
(27) Dai Williams, ibid.; Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse,” ibid.; Dr. Etcheson, ibid. (28) Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,” ibid.(29) Loc. cit.(30) Dr. Moret, “The Queen’s Death Star,” ibid.(31) The figure of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs is given in Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse,” ibid. But note as well: “Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions.” (Dr. Moret, “The Queen’s Death Star,” ibid.)(32) Dr. Moret, “The Queen’s Death Star,” ibid.
(33) Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse,” ibid.
(34) Dr. Doug Rokke in Beyond Treason, ibid.(35) Dr. Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse,” ibid.(36) Dr. Moret cited by Koehler, ibid. and in Moret, “Depleted Uranium: the Trojan Horse,” ibid.(37) Dr. Doug Rokke in Beyond Treason, ibid.(38) Lindorff, ibid.
(39) Chossudovsky, ibid.
