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War against Iran ? Its not really just about nuclear bombs.
Ozee - 29.08.2008 12:08
Even the CIA says Iran has No nuke building programme ,but the U$ and Israel still do a song and dance about "enriched uranium."Why?
It may not be the Bomb and enriched uranium that the US is worried about but the depleted uranium by-product usefull for making uranium metal tipped weapons big or small.
If ,you run a nuclear energy plant using enriched uranium ,depleted uranium is the waste by-product. but if ,you want to make depleted Uranium metal tipped weapons,it is the enriched uranium that may be only the by-product and course it is useful as a fuel for civilian Nuclear energy plants.But It is not usefull for building nukes if you have no nuke building capacity.
"A DU shell, marketed by their manufacturers as the Silver Bullet is made up of a DU penetrator rod encase in a light metal backed up by explosive. When fired the DU slices through tank armour like butter, catching fire (DU is pyrophoric) and aerosolizing into a very fine uranium ceramic dust. A typical Silver Bulletfired from an A10 Warthog or Harrier jet contains 300 grams of DU. These planes are equipped with 30mm Gatling guns that can fire 3900 shells per minute,usually every fifth shell is a Silver Bullet. This means that either of these
planes could release 234 kilograms of DU in a minute. Estimates are that over 300 tonnes of DU was dropped on Southern Iraq and only about 10 tonnes on theBalkans."
Iran does not needexploding nukes for self defence to destroythe usa military machine ,if it already has uranium metal tipped weapons.
"DU slices through tank armour like butter ".
Just using Uranium metal tipped weapons willdo just fine(and everyone knowsthat iran has plenty of DU metal and is rapidly refining and mining more )and this may bethe real reason Bush wantsto stop irans refining of uranium.It is everyday conventional weapons and bullets and shells equiped with uranium metal tips that can make the entire imperialist military war machines vulnerable and obsolete if they are in the hands of third world forces for peace and national independance.
Especialy vulnerable are thin skinned aircraft carriers that are comparmentalised by bulkheads . "Just as gunpowder made obsolete
castles and knights in armor, so likewise,big and small uranium metal shells and warheads may now have now made aircraft carriers, cruisers andarmoured personel carriers of empire obsolete and\now so easily totallydestroyed.The destructive power of Uranium tipped weapons were a major reason for the quick victory and low casualty rates for the invading powers in the first and second gulf wars not some great brilliant generals or the tactical skills and superior abilities of the troops.
Amongst all the other normal U$ "war against terror" bullshit propaganda ,the Christian Science Reporter Scott Peterson discusses how Iran can look after its own interests.Quote: Peterson Christian Science Monitor:
"Iran has honed a swarming tactic, in which small and lightly armed speedboats come at far larger warships from different directions. A classified Pentagon war game in 2002 simulated just such an attack and in it the Navy lost 16 major warships.. "The sheer numbers involved overloaded theirability, both mentally and electronically, to handle the attack," .."a retired Marine Corps officer who commanded the swarming force, .."The whole thingwas over in five, maybe 10 minutes."
And that is just on the sea .
'But nearby US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf provide a host of targets. Iran claimed last October that it could rain down 11,000 rockets upon "the enemy" within one \minute of an attack and that rate "would continue."
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0620/p07s04-wome.html?page=2
Currently the ressistance forces in invaded countrys appear to be only using home made and improvised exposive devices as weaponry, some times even "shaped" explosives . IED
In a real gulf war against Iran .Should Iran now possess uranium tipped and thermobaric weapons , any ships trapped and attempting to
escape throughTthe narrow straits out of the initial gulf slaughterhousen would be trapped at the narrow straits like rats on a sinking ship .
Wikipedia says: "It is thought that between 17 and 20 states have weapons incorporating depleted uranium in their arsenals. They include the U.S., theUK, France, Russia, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, Thailand, Iraq and Taiwan. DU ammunition ismanufactured in 18 countries. Only the US and the UK have acknowledged using DU weapons.[22]"
Note:No "Axis of evil "countries appear on that list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
These are dangerous materials in the hands of imperialists and their criminal use of them in agressive war as in Iraq and Afghanistan is genocidal.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/depleted-uranium-has-destroyed-genetic-future-iraq
But ,if you want to stop third world countries like Iran defending themselves against tank invasions or planes and marines launched from aircraft carriers and troopships,you get the "left "to campaign against DU on behalf of those imperialists monopolies already armed with nuclear bomb capabilities and uranium metal tipped weapons,weapon that they themselves criminaly use right now ,everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On D.U. weapons Extracts:
DU’s radioactivity is in the form of Alpha particles. Alpha particles are rightly described by the military as the ‘weakest’ form of radiation, they can be stopped by skin. However, when aerosolized into ceramic dust they are easily inhaled and can stay in the lungs for years, irradiating lung tissues causing emphysema or fibrosis. In addition to being inhaled, DU dust can settle on plants where it can be eaten and on open wounds, common in a war zone, where there is no skin to block the alpha radiation from irradiating soft body tissues. In the USA particles of DU have been found in the filters of air-conditioning units over 20 miles from any known source.
In addition to its radioactivity. Depleted Uranium is also chemically toxic as a heavy metal. DU dissolves in water. This heavy metal toxicity can be absorbed by plants and pollute ground water reserves. DU ends up in the kidneys and gastro intestinal tract causing a host of illnesses in a similar way to lead poisoning.While veterans’ organizations in the US claim that hundreds of ex service persons and their families have been adversely affected by DU, it impossible to estimate the number of people in Iraq and the Balkans suffering from a range of illnesses including congenital birth deformities caused by DU.By its indiscriminate nature and its ability to manifest itself through
generations, Depleted Uranium is a weapon of genocide."
DEPLETED URANIUM THE SECRET NUCLEAR WAR
Since the development of the first nuclear power generators, which utilised the ‘peaceful atom’ in the 1950s, stockpiles of the radioactive waste known as Depleted Uranium have been growing. Natural uranium ore contains about 0.7% U235, traces (0.005%)U234 and the rest
(about 99.3%) is U238. They each have 92 protons but different numbers of electrons (143, 142 and 146 respectively). In order for it to be used in nuclear reactors the percentage of U235 needs to be increased to between 3 and 4% depending on the type of reactor. This process is known as enrichment. As you can imagine if you enrich uranium from 0.7% to about 3.5% U235, there’ll be a LOT of U238 left over, this is Depleted Uranium, as opposed to Enriched Uranium.Still radioactive, still toxic and with a half life of about 4.2 billion years (ie: forever), there is 7 times as much DU produced by the enrichment process as there is EU. Seven tonnes of waste for each tonne of product.
Back in the late 60s the US Dept of Energy started copping a lot of flak about the huge stockpiles of radioactive waste it was storing in containers similar to cream cans in paddocks and yards adjoining their nuclear facilities. In an effort to reduce this stockpile they asked American industry to come up with ideas of how to reuse it.As DU is quite heavy (about 1.7 times the density of lead) most of ideas industry came up with made use of this property. Some of the successful ideas included using DU as counterweights in aircraft and ships and as a shielding for more highly radioactive waste. ..(SO THERE MAY BE A LOT OF IT OUT THERE ALREADY! Oz) .
.. it was only a matter of time before some evil military bastard thought of replacing.. tungsten with radioactive waste. And so began one of the most insidious chapters of US military history and nthat’s saying something.For a DU weapons background article go to to :
http://www.nukefreeaus.org/campaigns/Weapons/Depleteduranium.html
So, That's the weapons made from the depleted uranium stuff.But ,this writer is by no means an expert or pretends to really understands this nuclear stuff . All I understand or grasp is that extremely hot\uranium tipped thermobaric weapons wouldn't mix well with ships and enclosed pressure spaces seperated by compartmentalised bulkheads. In order to get the safer less "dirty" depleted uranium from uranium a seperation process may be required creating enriched uranium.
Thermobaric weapons :
So think of their effect on the empire ships and tanks not just used on enclosed in spaces like buildings or Bora Bora caves.
Allright ,that's just the penetrating power of super hot uranium tips in addition :
could Iran now not only have uranium tipped weapons and have also have uranium tipped aluminium powder thermobaric weapons technology too?
Thermobaric weapons.
"When the American military bought them in 2005, a gloating sadistic President George W Bush said:
"There are going to be some awfully surprised terrorists when the thermobaric
Hellfire comes knocking."
Despite the Bush rhetoric, it is unlikely anyone targeted by the missile would know much about it. The laser-guided missile has a warhead packed with fluorinated aluminium powder surrounding a small charge. When it hits the target, the charge disperses the aluminium powder throughoutthe target building. The cloud then ignites, causing a massive secondary blast that tears throughout any enclosed space.
The blast creates a vacuum which draws air and debris back in, creating pressure of up to 430lb per sq in. The more heavily the building is protected, the more concentrated the blast. The cloud of burning aluminium powder means victims often die from asphyxiation
before the pressure shreds their organs. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4187835.ece
Are the days of gunboat diplomacy and seaborne power backed oil empires about to come to a close?
Small speedboats can defeat big ships using the methods of guerrila war -flexible dispersal in the face of an imperialist 10 and then concentrating ten against one in order to defend a country from attack ON THE SEAS TOO .Guerrila and protracted war theories as found in such military theories on strategy and tactical manuals developed by Mao , and poularised by Lin for international use, in his work "long live the victory of Peoples War." "'Terrorism "orv nuclear weapons are not required.As the Chinese and Vietnamese and Soviet People showed, in the long run fighting in long protracted war s,People are the deciding factor in defeating colonialist and imperialist wars not technology ,although a bit of uranium tipped weapons could help along the way now .
Want to join the imperialist navies or the marines and sail about in coffin ships ready for an attack on Iran ?
This real world military reality, may be why patriotic or more realistic high amerikan military war leaders like sacked admiral Fallon and even many in the CIA are in a quite revolt\against Bush/Cheney/Israeli plans to attack Iran as simply religious crazy end times stuff.The US Generals and admirals are shitting their pants at the prospect of massive casualties.The Us preffers to attack countries only after UN inspectors assure them the enemy has one hand tied behind its back as in Iraq.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pentagon-opposes-iran-attack/2008/07/03/1214950950417.html
Why did BUSH DECLARE A "NATIONAL EMERGENCY " IN ANOTHER MONARCHIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER _ RIGHT -AFTER KOREA _Handed over its report on its nuclear related activities.Yet, everybody already new of the existance of Nth Korean Nukes.
A declaration of "national emegency " is a legal step preceeding a declaration of martial law ?
Not about nukes at all?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080626-4.html
related:
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/how-iran-would-retaliate-if-it-comes-war-why-bush-now-run-us-aircraft-carriers-would-be-coffin#comments
Ozee
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