Might as well be the name of this article covering the absolutely predictable results of the absolutely self inflicted wounds created by the looting of the nuclear site.
Environmental group Greenpeace called on the US-led coalition governing Iraq to clean up villages surrounding a nuclear site outside Baghdad that have been contaminated by "frightening levels" of radioactive material...
Carrying Arabic and English banners that read "Al-Tuwaitha - nuclear disaster. Act now!", Greenpeace activists returned a large uranium "yellowcake" mixing canister to US troops stationed inside the nuclear plant, 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of the capital.
The canister -- the size of a small car -- contained significant quantities of radioactive yellowcake and had been left open and unattended for more than 20 days on a busy section of open ground near the Tuwaitha plant, Greenpeace said Tuesday.
"No one cares about us. We are dying slowly. Our whole neighborhood is contaminated. Although Greenpeace came, it is too late," said Tareq al-Obeidi, a 41-year-old Tuwaitha city council member...
Hey Tareq...shut up. There are almost 200,000 US Servicemen in your country separated from wives, husbands, children, mothers and fathers because they are trying to step up. Meanwhile your countrymen are taking pot shots at these brave souls...do you understand what that means? Our soldiers are not dying for OUR country...they are dying for YOUR country.
And where the hell are you? You are 41 years old. You have to be the adult in your household.
How stupid do you and your neighbors have to be to steal storage barrels from a Nuke site?
And now you want to whine that no one cares? Hell, you didn't even care enough to stop something that was 100% preventable.
Meanwhile Greenpeace goes on to say:
"It is a disgrace that occupying forces can say they are taking care of human health here in Iraq and they can still allow this to lie open on the ground where children can play in it," said Greenpeace spokeswoman Sara Holden...
Greenpeace said the preliminary survey "highlights the total failure of the occupying forces to address the urgent need for a full assessment, containment and clean up of missing nuclear material from the Tuwaitha nuclear facility."
When did we say we are taking care of human health here in Iraq MS. Greenpeace?
What we said is that we are taking care of LIBERTY here in Iraq. You know the concept of liberty I'm sure. It is that level of freedom which you enjoy that allows you the choice to stand around and shoot your mouth off, or to roll up your sleeves and help.
And guess what...every Iraqi now has that same choice.
Meanwhile our undying thanks to Greenpeace for schlepping their happy selves to Iraq to "discover" what this article predicted a month ago.
According to eyewitness reports as many as 400 looters a day have been ransacking the Al-Tuwaitha complex south of Baghdad, regarded as the main site for Iraq's former nuclear weapons programme and covering an area of 120 acres. The crowd got in by simply cutting the surrounding barbed-wire fence in the absence of security patrols.
Seals placed at Iraqi nuclear sites by the IAEA during past inspections have been tampered with and metal containers of 300-400kg of natural and low-enriched uranium and uranium oxide, either stolen or tipped out and the containers used for domestic purposes such as milking cows and storing drinking water, milk and tomatoes intended for human consumption. Documents and lab equipment have been stolen, while other materials have been dumped on the floors. The environmental consequences may prove disastrous.
Criticism is easy. Helping is hard.
Come back when you can help.
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