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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20421)3/19/2004 1:19:58 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 81777
 
Searle,

Re: What "we" want in Iraq, besides the oil of course, is a pristine land, denuded of all existing lower forms of life, in order to make way for repopulation by (I'll give you one guess),

The fly in that ointment is that U 238 dust has a half life of 4.5 Billion years. Making the sandstorms of Iraq's winters toxic from here to eternity.

It appears to me that the permanent de-population of the region is on some minds. Between the efforts to create the Southeast Anatolian Project, Syria's irrigation needs and other lusting eyes looking at Iraq's rivers, we also have the current obscenity that Bechtel is privatizing the water in the rivers and claiming it as its own asset.



To: sea_urchin who wrote (20421)3/20/2004 2:33:09 PM
From: Jamey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 81777
 
<<The US soldiers are simply cannon-fodder>>

Searle, I am a former Airman in the US Air Force. We were required at all times to wear small devices around our neck that detected the presence of radioactivity for our protection. Surely, all soldiers in a war zone would wear these badges also.

This story about depleted uranium poisoning sounds terrible but I wonder how much basis in truth it contains.

James