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Thursday, June 9, 2005


FEATURED ARTICLES
- AfterDowningStreet.com
- JohnConyers.com
- RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE:
DU: A Scientific Perspective/ An Interview With LEUREN MORET, Geoscientist


THE QUOTE:
"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
- - From The Downing Street Memo


THE HISTORY: June 10th
1975
-- The Rockefeller Commission report is released, detailing a secret & criminal CIA-sponsored domestic program called CHAOS, including keeping records on 300,000 persons & groups, & infiltration of agents & provocateurs into black, anti-war & political movements in the US.  


RHINO HERE:
Last weekend The Rhino attended a PDA (Progressive Democrats of America) event in Los Angeles where author/educator William Rivers Pitt  delivered a "call to action" entitled, "Stand With Us."  Eloquent & powerful, it's available in QuickTime & Windows Media at the truthout website at:
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

The Downing Street Memo, the smoking gun document that's beginning to get traction, contains minutes transcribed during a meeting between Tony Blair and and other top British government officials on July 23, 2002 - a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005. In his speech, William Rivers Pitt announced the formation of "After Downing Street," a coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups launched  on May 26, 2005, to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. Learn more & join their effort at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.com

Representative John Conyers is also pushing hard for a Congressional investigation of the implications of the Downing Street Memo. To learn more about his efforts and sign on to his letter to the President concerning the document, check out his website at:
http://www.johnconyers.com

And some significant crimes which have resulted from Bush's War are made clear in Rhino's Bottom Line, an interview with Leuren Moret. She's a geoscientist who works almost around the clock educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials on radiation issues. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after witnessing fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. She is currently working as an independent citizen scientist and radiation specialist in communities around the world, and contributed to the U.N. subcommission investigating depleted uranium. According to Wikipedia online encyclopedia, Moret testified at the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan in Japan in 2003, presented at the World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany, and spoke at the World Court of Women at the World Social Forum in Bombay, India, in January 2004.

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DU: A Scientific Perspective/ An Interview With LEUREN MORET, Geoscientist
Interview by W. Leon Smith/Nathan Diebenow, May 13, 2005

...ICONOCLAST: What can soldiers expect when they come home?

MORET: If they were in Bradley Fighting Vehicles, they're coming home with rectal cancer from sitting on ammunition boxes. The young women are reporting terrible problems with endometriosis. That's the lining of the uterus malfunctioning, and they just bleed and bleed and bleed. Some of them have uterine cancer ~ 18 and 19 and 20 year olds.

The Army will not even diagnose it. They send them back to the battlefields. They won't treat them or diagnose them. A group of 20 soldiers pushed from Kuwait to Baghdad in 2003 in all the fighting. Eight of those 20 soldiers have malignancies.

MORET: Depleted uranium are these particles that form at very high temperatures. They are uranium oxides that are insoluble. They are at least 100 times smaller than a white blood cell, so when the soldiers breathe, they inhale them. The particles go through the nose, go through the olfactory and into the brain, and it messes up their cognitive abilities, thought processes. It damages their mood-control mechanism in the brain. Four soldiers at Fort Bragg came back from Afghanistan, and within two months, those four had murdered their wives. This is part of the damage to the brain from the radiation and the particles.

The soldiers from Gulf War I in a group of 67 soldiers who came back, they had DU in their equipment, in their clothes, in their bodies, in their semen, and they had normal babies before they went over there to war. They came back, and the VA did a study. Of 251 Gulf War I veterans in Mississippi, in 67 percent of them, thier babies born after the war were deemed to have severe birth defects. They had brains missing, arms and legs missing, organs missing. They were born without eyes. They had horrible blood diseases. It's horrific. If you want to look at something, Life magazine did a photo essay which is still on the Internet. It's called "The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm." You should look at that ~ oh, my God, the post-Gulf War babies playing with their brothers and sisters who are normal.

Basically, it's like smoking crack, only you 'e smoking radioactive crack. It goes straight into the blood stream. It's carried all throughout the body into the bones, the bone marrow, the brain. It goes into the fetus. It's a systemic poison and a radiological poison.

ICONOCLAST: What about the people in the United States that are here? You say that DU is being mixed and spread globally?

MORET: Yes, it's being mixed globally. We're getting secondary smoke. It's the secondary smoke effect. You know the people who inhabit a room with smokers? They are getting that secondary smoke, and so are we...

READ IT ALL & WEEP: http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_17578.shtml



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