Double Standards

Before the Iraq war I wrote to Tony Blair to mention the dangers of DU weapons, in the hope that DU would not be used (Depleted Uranium, NI406). When it emerged that British forces had used them, I talked to him about it. Tony Blair informed me that the ‘experts’ he had talked to had told him that DU was safe.

I know of soldier, a driver in Iraq, who informed me that the vehicles have Geiger counters on board and that whenever they go into a ‘hot’ area they drive as fast as possible. He blew up one car engine driving too fast in a radioactive fall-out zone.

It would thus appear that the military are giving one piece3 of advice to an elected p9litician and quite another to the troops on the ground. I am sure that when the truth comes out in a hundred years when official secrets are revealed, we will find that this was another war which the arms trade helped start. The only way of preventing arms manufacturers from influencing politicians both officially and unofficially, and to prevent politicians having stocks and shares in the armis industry so that there are no vested interests.

Andy Kadir-Buxton Hatfield, England

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