1.) No weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq: Blix
February 15 2003
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today inspectors hadn't found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
He cast doubt on evidence provided by US Secretary of State Colin Powell indicating Iraq may have cleaned up sites before inspectors arrived.
"In no case have we seen convincing evidence that the Iraqi side knew in advance that the inspectors were coming," Blix told the UN Security Council.
2.)"Please note: This disgraceful experiment ended just 25 years ago," said Dasbach. "This means the cold-blooded scientists who medically tortured the Tuskegee victims may still be employed by the government. The bureaucrats who administered this experiment may still have their jobs. The politicians who voted to fund this barbarous project may still be in office -- and getting paychecks from taxpayers.
"Why is there no effort being made to track down and punish the guilty bureaucrats and politicians? Why is there no public outcry? Why does no one seem to care that for 50 years, the federal government has routinely treated its citizens like laboratory rats?" he asked.
The underlying problem, said Dasbach, is that the Tuskegee experiments aren't the exception -- they're the rule.
"For five decades, the federal government has waged a war against its own citizens -- a war in the form of gruesome, secret medical experiments," he said. "Americans have not only been left to silently suffer from syphilis, but have also been injected with Plutonium 239, blistered with mustard gas, dosed with LSD, and sprayed with bacteria. And the victims of these experiments were usually the most vulnerable members of society: Poor African Americans, hospital patients -- and even mentally disabled children.
"It's time for the American people to cry out for justice. It's time for the guilty politicians and bureaucrats to be punished for these war crimes."
Not convinced? Just look at the list of medical atrocities the government has admitted to, said Dasbach.
* In March, the Department of Energy paid $6.5 million to the families of 17 individuals who were injected with plutonium and uranium in secret government Cold War-era experiments.
* In November 1996, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary paid $4.8 million to the families of another 12 victims of government radioactivity experiments.
* As many as 20,000 other lawsuits have been filed against the federal government for secret biochemical experiments conducted from the 1940s to the 1960s.
* As many as 500,000 Americans were endangered by secret defense-related tests between 1940 and 1974 -- including covert experiments with radioactive materials, mustard gas, LSD, and biological agents, according to a Congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC on September 28, 1994.
The US is not exactly lily white in regards to inflicting death and disease on its own people. Hard to preach from a pulpit painted with Tuskegee and the like. |
