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November 5, 2007: This website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org, which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became one of the most populace sites in the US, and an important resource on the antiwar movement, student activism, 'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored virtually all of its web pages and multimedia content (photographs, audio, video, and pdf files. As the author and registered owner of that site, his purpose here is to preserve an important slice of the history of the grassroots peace movement in the US over the past decade. He is maintaining this historical archive as a service to the greater peace movement, and to the many friends of Traprock Peace Center. Blogs have been consolidated and the calendar has been archived for security reasons; all other links remain the same, and virtually all blog content remains intact.

THIS SITE NO LONGER REFLECTS THE CURRENT AND ONGOING WORK OF TRAPROCK PEACE CENTER, which has reorganized its board and moved to Greenfield, Mass. To contact Traprock Peace Center, call 413-773-7427 or visit its site. Charles Jenks is posting new material to PeaceJournal.org, a multimedia blog and resource center.

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The War on Truth

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Army of None

Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal

See Dr. Kilpatrick's claim that bunker busters do not use DU

Another US Department of Defense Lie about Iraq

Lie: That Iraq would not cooperate with WHO study
of DU health effects before Gulf War II

Truth: Iraq invited WHO study; US lobbied hard against it
and prevailed in quashing it at the UN

"In the discussion at the Mar 6 conference, Dr. Michael Kilpatrick [left], US Department of Defense, stated that WHO wanted to go to Iraq to study depleted uranium effects on the Iraqi population, but Iraq would not allow them in. This is false. Iraq invited/requested WHO to study effects of DU on the Iraqi population and in August 2001 a WHO team was sent to Iraq. In November the UN General Assembly voted to stop the WHO study in Iraq - I'm not sure who introduced this measure into the General Assembly, but the US lobbied very hard to prevent the WHO from doing this study. The vote was 45 for WHO to continue, 54 to stop the WHO study and 45 abstentions. The US seems to have coerced a lot of countries, which resulted in this unusual number of abstentions."
photo of Michael Kilpatrick © 2004 Charlie Jenks

Commentary by Professor Glen D. Lawrence, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Long Island University.

Listen to Dr. Kilpatrick's false statement (30 seconds - mp3 or RealAudio)

See http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2001/msg01051.html (reprinted below)

VOTE ON DU AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY: NOT A VICTORY FOR US

• From: Philippa Winkler
• Subject: VOTE ON DU AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY: NOT A VICTORY FOR US
• Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 12:46:47 -0700

From: Philippa Winkler and Karen Parker

DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN: US BARELY WINS ON DU AT
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
UN SUBCOMMISSION STUDY ON DU MOVES FORWARD

Reuters' press account that Iraq suffered a defeat at the UN General
Assembly regarding an investigation of DU, does not give an accurate picture.
The United States was unable to muster more than 54 votes out of a
possible 144 because 45 States abstained and another 45 voted "yes". That is
not a majority vote. Reuters should have described it as a narrowly
defeated effort by Iraq to have the effects of depleted uranium
(DU)weaponry under close UN scrutiny (by the General Assembly). Activists
working on the DU issue should bear in mind that the World Health Organization
has already undertaken serious steps at evaluating the Iraqi health crisis
linked to use of DU weaponry in the Gulf War and the United Nations

The UN Sub-Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
is already committed to a report on DU weapons due at its
2002 session. Therefore the resolution at the General Assembly was largely
"symbolic". It is by no means a victory for the US as the Western media have
portrayed it. Don't believe the spin.

The huge number of abstentions are very encouraging. Abstentions are
no votes by countries who are not willing yet to challenge the US on this
issue. Seen this way, the majority of countries voted against the US (the yes
and abstention votes).

The UN Sub-Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
DU study is going forward with Justice Sik Yuen (Mauritius) as Special
Rapporteur. Please support the Justice's efforts. If you have any reports on
DU for inclusion in this study please forward them to Philippa Winkler at
pjw8@dana.ucc.nau.edu. As the UN funds authorized for this study do not cover
all expenses, contributions are welcome.

Additional note by Glen Lawrence: An article in Lancet. 2001 Sep 1;358(9283):737, WHO sends team to Iraq to investigate effects of depleted uranium, by C. Kapp describes the WHO team going to Iraq and their mission.  

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