As Far As I Can Tell

In a recent issue of Punk Planet there’s an Iraq travel journal by an American who was illegally bringing needed food and medical supplies to the Iraqi people. He visited a lot of hospitals and talked to the doctors about their need for supplies that are blacklisted and classified as “dual use”. I guess virtually anything with a motor or stainless steel is banned from import.

The journal also talks about how the cancer rate and number of birth defects has risen dramatically since the gulf war in ‘91. To everyone’s best guess the reason is the use of depleted uranium (DU) within weapons and shields used by the US Armed Forces.

Many nations are now calling on the US to not use the same DU equipped weapons in the war that will most likely begin in two days. The US is refusing, saying they “question the motives” of anyone who would want them to not use DU and denying any medical consequences of it’s use. Colonel James Naughton of US Army seems to have the concerned nations and people all figured out:

“Why do they want it to go away? They want it to go away because we kicked the crap out of them, OK?”

Lots of news stories about DU in Iraq are linked here courtesy of the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium.

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I wonder how long it will take before some media hotshot coins the term that history uses to define this coming war. My suggestions:

• Bushzilla takes the Middle East
• He is a terrorist and this war proves it
• A cowboy always rides alone
• My name is Inigo Montoya, no wait, I mean…

The worst part is that if we go to war I want it to be over as quickly as possible with low causalities. Yet I also want Bush to fall flat on his face before the next election so we can get out of this bizarro-America we’re been living in.

Fuck.