Insurgentjg

The war on aggression has not only violated multiple resolutions and human rights conventions but has exposed next generations of civilian population of Iraq and Afghanistan to the disastrous affects of depleted Uranium and cluster bombs. Future generations of Iraq and Afghanistan now need to not only contemplate the tragic loss of life suffered in the intense US bombing campaign, but also to deal with higher cancer rates, birth deformities, genetic mutations, contaminated water sources and lost limbs for decades to come.
“Shock & Awe Strategy” of using such deadly weapons was devised by the pentagon’s well known and pro Israeli Harlan Ullman, who heads the navy extended planning. One of his student who was Secretary of State Colin Powell, highly praise Ullman saying that “he raised my vision several times”. “Shock & Awe strategy” for winning the battle field was devised long before the September 11 incident. It was 1996, under Clinton’s era when a Pentagon run National Defense University came up with the concept of “rapid dominance” battle plan. Later it was dubbed in to the shock & awe strategy which seeks to quickly overwhelm the enemy psychologically through the use of military brutal force and to extend the impacts it seeks to scare the enemy’s general population. In Ullman’s words, “strategy would have a simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days but minutes.”
Since September 11, US have legitimized the use of weapons in its arsenal and has opened the door for genocidal acts through a so called “war against terror”. In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a Pentagon’s nuclear posture review which states that; nuclear weapons could be used in the event of surprising military developments. In addition, the White House has significantly lowered the nuclear threshold by removing nuclear weapons from their long established special category and lumping them with all other military options – such as special forces, covert operations, cyber warfare, “strategic deception,” psychological warfare and air power.  In short US has institutionalized the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction for their own good.
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  1- Henry Michaels, “US Plans ‘Shock and Awe’ Blitzkrieg in Iraq,” World Socialist Website January 30th, 2003,  as mentioned by Kareem. M. Kamel in his article “A New Haulocost”
  2- Robert James Parsons, “America’s Big Dirty Secret,” Le Monde Diplomatique March 2002