The War Against Ourselves; An Interview with Major Doug Rokke This is an interview from YES! magazine. Major Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors. Moderator Edit – reduce length of quoted text
I find very interesting the interview with Major Doug Rokke. Obviously dedicated his entire life as a faithful dog to the establishment. He lost, apparently to what he refers to as “best friend”, got screwed up, lied and stub on the back, and yet he doesn’t even mention once the word “crime”. I guess we are at best when training our soldiers!
Our military personnel may fight to get it right and compensation. The Iraqi country side civilians have no option but to eat shit,….our shit! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I can not but wonder who has deserved it more! Gulf War Veterans, the U.S. Government and Depleted Uranium 1990 – 2000 http://www.miltoxproj.org/DU/IOM-cover.htm Making the Desert Glow - U.S. uranium shells used in the gulf war may be killing Iraqi children http://users.skynet.be/terrorism/html/nuclear_pgs.htm Depleted Uranium as Low Intensity Nuclear War http://www.greens.org/s-r/15/15-20.html RADIOACTIVE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE 1990s KILLING OUR OWN - AGAIN http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dmtp.html THE GULF WAR'S TROUBLING LEGACY http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Gulf War/gulfwarlegacy2.htm :m:
Gulf war sickness In addition to those who were exposed to Depleted uranium, thousands of Gulf War soldiers were required to take large daily doses of a substance called pyrostigmine bromide. It was supposed to help ward off the effects of exposure to nerve gas. This medication had never, and still has not, been tested nor approved by the FDA for any other use than to be given in small doses to people suffering from a diagnosed neurolical disorder. It has only recently been disclosed that thousands of veterans Suffering from "Gulf war illness" are really the victims of overexposure to pyrostigmine bromide. http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/Haley.html Ruined lives nerver turn up on the casuality lists.
Help me out here: What's the difference, then ...? Terrorists are allegedly trying to use "dirty bombs". The United States military fires rounds composed of "10 pounds of solid uranium-238 contaminated with plutonium, neptunium, americium". I'm really trying to see the difference. That's not good; the implications are quite obvious. So ... an indiscriminate, radioactive weapon .... And the terrorists allegedly want "dirty bombs". Do we wonder why? :m:, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Being utterly selfish for a moment, ignoring anything we may perpetrate on residents of the middle east- how much shame are Americans like me who love their country going to be asked to bear in this imminent crusade? How much can we bear? We are all (Americans) funding this and allowing it to happen.
I personally think that each American is partly responsible for it. Just like i think that each of those in Nazi Germany were partly responsible for allowing that to manifest as it did. The extent of the responsibility of each person is debateable, but regardless i think that it's there. How much shame have those in Germany dealt with in the last 58 years? How much have people in other nations looked down on them? At the same time, i think that what is happening is providing valuable lessons for humanity. Sometimes it takes someone going too far for everyone to realize and agree with each other about where the line is in going too far. Unfortunate, needless, but still valuable in its own way. If the Nazis / Holocaust hadn't happened, i'll bet there would be more people supporting war. Much of humanity has learned from what happened. Just my thoughts...
unfortunaly we as a race seem to have a very short memory for such things. We see atrocities and survive and come through saying "never again", a few years later we go through the motions again. Hell some people even have the nerve not only to be blind to what history is teaching us but to deny it ever happened at all. This will teach us some important lessons yes but can we make the lessons stick this time?
