[Peace-discuss] great job, USA

[Ricky Baldwin]

Well said, Doug.


>From: Dlind49 at aol.com
>To: baldwinricky at hotmail.com, peace-discuss at lists.cu.groogroo.com
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] great job, USA
>Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:07:37 EDT
>
>A shower of death and destruction consisting of 250 lb and 500 lb
>conventional explosives; land mines or submunitions that land intact then
>explode with touched, with heat, with cold, with sound, or other trigger
>mechanisms; depleted uranium munitions, each in reality a dirty bomb
>consisting of radioactive materials dispersed by explosives; air and sea
>launched cruise missiles;  grenades, bullets, and much much more are the
>preferred tools of the military trade.
>
>As a warrior who participated in two wars "Nam and ODS" and who decided
>enough is enough; I can relate what happens.
>
>B52's (my first assignment during Nam was to drop B52 bomb payloads for a
>living) drop tons and tons of explosives with each pass. We planed and saw
>each flight of three B52's devastate, or obliterate everything with 3 grid
>square. A grid square is 1 1 Km by 1 Km.   this is carpet bombing. You can
>lay your leading edge with 500 feet and then everything beyond goes away in
>fire and explosions.  their is nothing selective about it.  B52's cannot
>separate out any combatant from noncombatant. Bombs also sometimes do not 
>go
>of right away but lie their until triggered.
>
>Land mines or submunuitons are designed to land intact then detonate with 
>any
>type of disturbance from man, woman, child, animal, or weather.  Some jump 
>up
>then explode- "bouncing betty" while some explode with thousands of razor
>blade devices "flechettes", or even ball bearings.  It makes a real mess.
>Land mines can remain for years and you can't always find nor retrieve 
>them.
>Our team worked for the under  Secretary of Defense for Environmental
>Security who has responsibility for land mine removal and we never, repeat
>never came up with a  viable system. that is why Jody Williams, Nobel peace
>laureate, warned the world during the Athens UN / UNESCO / Child and the
>Family conference and worked for years to get land mines controlled.   Land
>mines rip flesh apart and maim and kill without selection.
>DU leaves crispy critters and danger for years.  DU land mines, the ADAM 
>and
>the PDM, produce radioactive contamination with also same effects as land
>mines.
>  Then we have criuse missiles that also contain DU and explosives.   What 
>a
>mess. So whenever we go to war or an unjustified  action to overthrow a
>government as in Afghanistan as planned years ago (9/11 was just an excuse)
>the military does not care at all about so called collateral damage at al 
>and
>in fact plans for it. If you destroy the infrastructure and anything that
>moves then your mission is accomplished.
>
>Any one that wants to see first hand the pictures and films of war can just
>ask.
>
>And now we are about to do it once more or actually just increase the
>intensity in Iraq.
>
>We must stop the nonsense.
>
>doug
>
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