My letter for today which went to Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and, of course, D.C.
No, no--not nuclear!
Dear Editor,
There are probably a couple of reasons why the American Commander-in-Chief
has a hard time saying the word "nuclear." And they have nothing to do
with the learning disability that is supposed to explain his failure to
read anything but the speeches other people prepare for him.
No, the reason the leader of the free world can't pronounce the word
"nuclear" is because he knows that most of the people of the Middle East
consider the attack on Iraq to be the FOURTH nuclear war. While his
military advisers continue to pretend that the uranium left over from the
production of nuclear fuels is a harmless additive to the bullets and bombs
we have been producing since 1991, a Harvard graduate is no doubt smart
enough to know that breathing in uranium particles is bound to be bad for
the lungs.
And if he didn't know it before, the judgement of the Internation Criminal
Tribunal for Afghanistan which convened in Tokoy and found him guilty of
war crimes in March of this year, because of the use of Depleted Uranium
weapons in Afghanistan, should have made it pretty clear.
The World Health Organization has recently estimated that the incidence of
cancer will double in the next six years. This should not come as a
surprise,considering that every DU weapon disperses pounds of a heavy metal
into the air--a heavy metal much like lead, which doesn't even have to be
ingested to get into the human blood stream and affect every vulnerable
cell. Which, of course, is why the leader of the free world has been
convicted of omnicide.