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"Coalition bombing destroyed four nuclear research facilities and two nuclear reactors. Estimates indicate there may have been 200-300 kilograms of radioactive waste materials, such as plutonium, strontium, cesium and iodine, being stored at these sites.

"Coalition military experts claim these facilities were bombed in such a way that there was no possibility of contamination or leakage being generated. However, given the general tenor of fabrications, disinformation and misleading statements concerning the effectiveness and accuracy of the so-called 'smart bombs' and given the fact that the military authorities are quite vague as to how their bombing techniques could guarantee there would be no contamination from, or leakage of, radioactive materials at the various nuclear sites, one has to take the assurances of the military experts with more than a grain of salt."

Dr. Donaldson was about to say something but checked herself, as if a further, relevant idea or piece of information suddenly had occurred to her. Her face brightened with the enthusiasm of someone who was intrigued with different facets of the topic being discussed, despite the depressing nature of the realities being explored.

"Incidentally, you may be interested to learn that in November-1990, several months before Desert Storm began in earnest, the International Atomic Energy Agency had inspected the nuclear research facilities in Iraq, including their Tammura-2 and IRT-5000 reactors. The Agency's investigation determined that the Iraqi nuclear facilities and reactors were being employed for peaceful research purposes.

"The International Atomic Energy Agency is the organization authorized by the United Nations to force compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Consequently, the Agency has the task of ensuring that all nuclear research facilities and affiliated reactors are being used for exclusively peaceful purposes.

"In 1985, six years prior to Desert Storm, the IAEA passed a resolution which stipulated clearly that any armed attack on a nuclear facility being used for peaceful purposes was a violation of the Agency's statutes, as well as both International Law and the Charter of the United Nations Charter.

"This statute of the IAEA arose partly as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi Osirak reactor facility in 1981. There were, however, other factors that shaped their statute, and, presumably one of these additional factors was to avoid situations where radioactive waste materials from peaceful facilities would be leaked, entirely unnecessarily, into the environment to cause serious contamination.

"Thus, the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facilities represents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, we have the New World Order which was supposedly the moral authority for waging the Gulf war.

"The New World Order allegedly was predicated on principles of peace, justice and respect for international law. Yet, in order to impose the New World Order, all three of its principles had to be violated in fundamental ways.

"Certainly, these violations were evident in the Coalition bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facilities, and there are many other aspects of the Gulf War that are further examples of such violations. These are precedents which do not augur well for the future."

Professor Donaldson ran both her hands through her hair several times. She tucked some of her relatively short cropped hair behind her ears, getting set for the next part of her talk.

"Last, but not least, on the ecological hit parade is the issue of the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons that were among the primary targets of the Coalition forces. The Iraqi facilities at, among other places, Samarra, Kamisiyah, Bayji, and Salman Pak were well-known to the military leaders of the Coalition forces.

"Those in command knew precisely what was being produced or stored or researched at each of the Iraqi facilities. Moreover, they did not come to this knowledge overnight. It had been with them for quite some time.

"There is something terribly ironic in this whole issue of chemical and biological weapons. The Coalition forces were extremely concerned about the possibility of the Iraqis releasing chemical and biological agents. In fact, the Coalition leaders were so worried about this contingency, they informed the Iraqis that Baghdad would be hit with nuclear strikes if any chemical or biological weapons were used by the Iraqis.

"So what did these deep thinkers of the Coalition go and do? Why they went and released these toxic agents into the air, ground water and soil through their destruction of the Iraqi chemical and biological research, production and storage facilities."

As she said "deep thinkers", there was a derisive tone to the words. Her body language matched the tone of voice. Both conveyed a sense of not quite being able to comprehend how someone could act in a way that would bring to realization the very purpose one was allegedly committed to preventing.

"There is a growing body of evidence," she said, "which indicates that tens of thousands of American participants in the Gulf War are suffering from something called 'The Gulf War Syndrome'. This Syndrome exhibits a wide variety of debilitating neurological and physiological symptoms, along with a disturbingly high incidence of birth defects among their post-war children.

"The American authorities are denying the existence of any such disease. Yet, for more than twenty years these same authorities denied any culpability in the tragedy of the thousands of Vietnam veterans who had been exposed to, and suffered from, the toxic effects of Agent Orange that had been used extensively in Vietnam.

"The Gulf War Syndrome may be, in part, a function of the contamination resulting from the more than 25 Iraqi storage, production and research facilities destroyed by Coalition bombing. Or, the Gulf War syndrome might be the result of some of the experimental drugs being foisted on the Coalition forces as alleged protection against the possible release of Iraqi chemical and biological agents.

"Possibly, the Gulf War Syndrome is a function of being exposed to the depleted uranium used in the heavy artillery shells of Coalition forces. On the other hand, the Gulf War Syndrome may have something to do with breathing in all the toxic substances which were released by the burning oil tankers and terminals.

"The Gulf War Syndrome also may be a combination of all of the foregoing factors coming together in a destructive synergy. Sorting it all out may not be an easy puzzle to solve.

"The problem is, nobody with any power bothered to think it all through, before the fact of implementing Desert Storm. Apparently, nobody stopped to consider the possibility that the actions of the Coalition leaders and forces could generate something like the Gulf War Syndrome or the other destructive aspects of the war."

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