The Karma of Nuclear Bullets

The American’s use uranium enriched nuclear rockets and shells. Leukemia rates in Iraq skyrocketed after the first Gulf war and this conflict is estimated to have released the same nuclear pollution as 250,000 Hiroshima explosions.

When a shell explodes it releases a microscopic, radioactive dust that is then inhaled. Six hundred American soldiers have died so far but the rest will eventually come home to cancer, birth defects and a slow death, from a nuclear poisoning that comes from their own shells. How weird is that?

The local Iraqis will live on as best they can in a nuclear wasteland. Meanwhile, the uranium blows gradually over Europe and winds up in milk and other parts of the food chain.

Going to war pretending to protect the world from weapons of mass destruction and then using the same nuclear weapons seems a bit perverse. It’s bad karma in my view.

I feel for the 140,000 American soldiers and the Brits stationed there, they don’t know they have a deadly disease that may not show for years. It’s terrible for the Iraqis, terrible for the soldiers and terrible for Europeans who will now have deadly bits of a cruise missile in their cappuccino.

I am teaching myself to breathe through my ears, so I don’t have to inhale. It’s a lot harder than it looks.

© Stuart Wilde
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