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> Merry Christmas, Hawaii – and Bombs Away!
> By Cathy Garger
> Nov 27, 2007, 17:47
>
>
>
> It’s the end of the world as we know it. The US Military has
> officially run out of foreign lands to bomb. Apparently out of
> desperation to find a place to publicly ejaculate their huge, heavy
> loads, the US Air Force has chosen the Big Island of Hawaii as its
> bulls-eye target.
>
> Unfortunately for Hawaiian paradise, however, this time it’s going to
> take far more than a super size box of Kleenex to tidy up this
> particular wad containing Uncle Sam’s latest hot, dirty, and
> unquestionably most slimy mess.
>
> According to a recent Associated Press article, “B-2 Stealth Bombers
> Hit US Targets”, the United States government is using both Hawaii
and
> Alaska to expand its war games and better train pilots to unload
> mega-size Uranium bombs on – shhhh – unsuspecting North Koreans.
> Meanwhile, Uncle Sam, convincingly playing the part of one mighty
> sick, twisted Santa, is apparently reneging on his promise to make
> nice and remove North Korea from his Naughty [State Sponsors of
> Terrorism] List.
>
> How considerate of Uncle Sam to give such a generous warning, months
> in advance, of his impending blitzkrieg on one more unsuspecting
Asian
> nation! But, for some strange reason, the citizens of Hawaii received
> no such courtesy prior to being “cursed” with monthly bloody
bombings,
> not even the benefit of predictability enjoyed by women visited every
> month by their “Auntie Flo.”
>
> What harm would it do, if you really think about it, for the US
> government to run a small ad in Hawaii’s federal mouthpiece, The
> Honolulu Advertiser, in which they could announce for Hawaiians the
> dates during which they should attempt to locate suitable bomb
> shelters on “that” day of the month? Well, at least it would be a
> mighty thoughtful touch!
>
> One seriously wonders what horrible things Hawaiians have done to
> become such bad little boys and girls that their very own
> authoritarian Uncle Sammy – who they have, after all, permitted for
> over one hundred years to play soldier upon their land and in their
> sea - would sadistically “repay” them for their warm Aloha-spirit
> hospitality by dropping bombs from stealth Air Force B-2 bombers on
> them… ‘round Christmastime, no less!
>
> No matter what the offense, no matter how bad Hawaiians have been to
> merit domestic air raids by their own, one certainly suspects that
> dumping many thousands of pounds of coal atop the Hawaiian Isle would
> be a far more suitable punishment (not to mention an infinitely
better
> eco-friendly gesture) than being forced into being sitting ducks for
> bombing practice from the heavens above!
>
> But times they certainly are a ‘changing! Why, once upon a time in an
> era many US War Presidents ago, it used to be that attacks on Hawaii
> were staged by other nations – Japan, for example. Now, in this
> modern post-9/11 age, any nation is fair game for attack … even when
> the people on the island you’re bombing happen to wave the very same
> red, white, and blue flag as the other forty nine states!
>
> No, this is no parody you’re reading. This news is so priceless I
> could not make this stuff up! The United States Air Force has
actually
> started bombing its own country, in order to conduct what they claim
> is necessary bombing practice for North Korea – or whoever’s up for
> the next US “hit!”
>
> Courtesy of the AP article, released as a gift to America on
> Thanksgiving Day (when we were too busy wolfing down turkey and
> stuffing to notice or even care), we now learn, quite after the fact,
> that US B-2 “Spirit” Stealth Bombers have started routinely bombing
> the US state of Hawaii.
>
> According to the US Air Force website, the domestic bombing began
this
> year on October 23. Reportedly, the first Bombs Away event, being
> called Hawaii’s “October Surprise,” was part of an exercise called
> “Koa Lightning,” in which B-2s flew from Guam to Hawaii, dropping
the
> bombs on the Big Island’s Pohakuloa Training Area.
>
> At least one dozen of these mega-bombs were dropped the first month,
> at $1.2 million US Dollars a pop. Called “inert” and “dummy” because
> they reportedly do not explode, the Air Force tells us, as if from an
> ad for homemade jam, bombings are conducted, “the old fashioned way
> too. No laser designating the target and no joint direct attack
> munitions with global positioning system guidance. It was just the
> aviators, their instruments, a deadly airframe and some Airmen on the
> mock battlefield calling in the coordinates.”
>
> As these are not your Air Force standard, computer-guided, “built in,
> state of the art targeting system” drops, the aviators and their uh,
> instruments, work on a “deadly timeframe,” relying on nothing but
> gravity … and the capricious whim of Mother Nature’s tropical winds.
>
> So don those hard hats and heads up, Hawaii, ‘cause where those
> “old-fashioned ‘dumb bombs’ without precision guidance” land next is
> anybody’s guess! And a 2,000 lb. bomb – make that a 2,000 lb.
> anything… released from a point higher than the mountaintops that
goes
> even a wee bit off course is definitely going to cause some poor
> Hawaiian one mighty colossal headache!
>
> According to the AP article, the Air Force has “only started dropping
> inert bombs on the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area [PTA] last
> month.” One can not help wondering if this bombing that “only”
started
> last month is not possibly payback for the work of outspoken
activists
> who recently opposed the permanent stationing of the 2/25th Stryker
> Brigade Combat Team at PTA? Coincidentally [or maybe not?] Pohakuloa
> is the same live-fire test training area where mega-bombs are now
> getting dropped out of B-2 jets onto grounds where Depleted Uranium
> was discovered in August.
>
> With regard to the “Koa Lightning” bombing of Hawaii exercises, one
of
> the B-2 pilots, Major Tim Hale, stated, “This particular mission
> covers the full spectrum of what we can do.” With a nation so
> desperate to practice dropping bombs that it chooses as its Ground
> Zero the sacred, culturally rich, pristine paradise of Hawaii, there
> is no question that the full spectrum of what we can do has indeed
> been achieved … at the very lowest, bottom-of-the-barrel end of the
> spectrum, that is.
>
> With the bombing of Hawaii a jolly old ho (ho, ho) hum affair, not
> just the United States but the international community, too, now gets
> to witness the utter depths of just how low the United States will go
> in order to wage its aggressive wars. For to depraved Uncle Sam in
the
> role of Santa-Gone-Bad this holiday season, not even Hawaii –
> considered by many to be the world’s favorite tropical vacation spot
–
> is sacred.
>
> On its own website, the US Air Force reminds us that the capability
of
> the B-2 bombers (apparently considered the pinnacle of Air Force
> prowess) must not be underestimated. "Strategic bombers in and of
> themselves are huge force multipliers," according to Tech. Sgt.
> Richard Setlock, a JTAC from the 25th Air Support Operations
Squadron.
> Furthermore, according to Sgt. Setlock, "Fighter attack aircraft can
> stay on station for 45-minutes and provide six to eight bombs. We can
> have a bomber overhead for two to four hours and provide four times
> the firepower that a fighter attack aircraft could."
>
> The military’s orgiastic thrills and chills of “force multiplier”
> capabilities aside, one wonders how the local Hawaiian school
children
> are coping? What must it be like for these precious young ones,
> learning their A, B, C’s, numbers, and colors, too, with not merely
> jets overhead, but stealth bombers that provide four times the
> firepower of fighter attack aircraft?
>
> Distant memories of 1960s bomb drills hiding underneath kindergarten
> desks suddenly come to mind. One wonders how Hawaiian teachers go
> about explaining to tiny tots that the bombs, each weighing about as
> much as four classroom pianos... are being dropped by their own
> country, that is [gulp] by the “good guys”.
>
> In correspondence with Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award winner and
> weapons expert of The San Francisco Bay View, Nichols wrote of the
B-2
> bombs,, "It is just a matter of time till the 376,000 lb heavy
bombers
> hit a school playground or someone's house with the equivalent of a
> small car at 160 mph and kill no telling how many people. Just chalk
> it up to the annual required human sacrifice to keep the big Military
> payroll in Hawaii. The city fathers made a bad deal with the devil
> for a few dollars more."
>
> The devil may have made them do it, but do the local officials even
> know? According to Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Harry Kim, this is
> apparently not the case. "I was not aware that they were dropping
> bombs up there."
>
> Mayor Kim also added that the public has a right to know about what’s
> going on – and when Hawaiians can expect the 2,000 pound drops
gracing
> them from up above. "They really need to be proactive about informing
> us so we can inform the public," he said. "The public needs to know
> when these types of exercises are going on, especially those who
drive
> Saddle Road."
>
> Yes, there’s no doubt about it. These bombs are a threat to Hawaii,
> and when even the local government’s top official is not made aware
of
> the mortal danger his citizens face on a regular basis, one suspects
> that Uncle Sam does a mighty lousy job as Federal Duck-and-Cover
> Communicator for the oblivious residing in Pacific paradise.
>
> As explained by the Air Force on its website, “The global reach and
> long loiter time over a target is a unique capability of America's
> bomber force. This makes the B-2 especially lethal to America's
> enemies.”
>
> Furthermore, as Col. Damian McCarthy, 36th Operations Group
commander,
> elaborates, "Having the ability to stay over a target for extended
> periods, especially in a stealth airframe, gives the combatant
> commander the option to strike the bad guys at a time and place of
> their choosing."
>
> What none of these military load-dropping, macho-types explain,
> however, is just whose bright idea it was to use the Big Island of
> Hawaii for their bombing target practice fun. The island of Hawaii
is,
> after all, a place where 160,000 citizens live and work, and 1.5
> million tourists from around the globe come each year to sun, fun,
and
> play.
>
> Can someone please tell me exactly when did the gentle, peace-loving
> people from the Aloha state get placed on the list as America’s
> declared “enemies” and “bad guys” in order to merit humongous, lethal
> bomb drops by B2 stealth bombers?
>
> One can understand why Hawaiians are a tad more than concerned about
> the very real possibility of stray, off-course bombs being dropped on
> their heads. What is even more disturbing, however, is the fact that
> these bombs – weighing roughly the same as a Honda CRX model car -
are
> being dropped from altitudes 18,000 feet above the mountains … onto
> grounds contaminated with deadly toxic and radioactive Depleted
> Uranium from years of live-fire training.
>
> Can you just imagine how 2,000 pounds of concentrated dead weight,
> dropped from the skies, will rustle up and render airborne the
> Depleted Uranium in the soils on the Pohakuloa Training Area? And
just
> how safe can this be, in terms of air quality, with lethal Depleted
> Uranium being re-suspended in the air by these bomb drops …
> particularly for those living in nearby towns?
>
> According to the Army’s 2000 health fact sheet on Depleted Uranium,
> “DU can also be inhaled when DU particles in the environment are
> resuspended into the atmosphere by wind or other disturbances.” Is
> there any question in anyone’s mind that such a heavy bomb, dropped
> from the heavens and landing in radioactive soils, creates one hell
of
> a “disturbance?”
>
> Jim Albertini, of the Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-Violent Education &
> Action says of the bombings, “This, along with other training at PTA,
> is an outrage given the presence of Depleted Uranium (DU) confirmed
at
> PTA. The full extent of the contamination is not yet known but the
> military is taking action that risks spreading the stuff around. It
> shows the complete disregard for the health and safety of Hawaii
> residents and the military people who train on the ground there.”
>
> Wouldn’t it make sense to remediate the contaminated soils at
> Pohakuloa, as is required by Army Regulation 700-48 before even
> thinking about dropping mega-bombs there? Is the Army in such a hurry
> to “practice” bombing the hell out of North Korea that it simply
> cannot wait another few months till it cleans up the mess it created
> in Hawaii by playing around there with its nuke weapons (and
> God-only-knows-what-other Uranium munitions)?
>
> Has this grand US imperial Empire, in its zealous myopic dream of
> waging wars at any cost, decided to totally waste the once pristine,
> lush, exotic Hawaiian island - and its very own citizens to boot?
Does
> anyone know precisely when our nation made the decision to condemn
> Hawaii for billions of years as a radioactive “national sacrifice
> zone,” the “payoff” being the ability to wage continuous wars against
> innocent civilians … in both Hawaii as well as in far-off lands?
>
> Perhaps in lieu of being greeted in the future with flowered leis,
> future visitors to Hawaii’s airport should, by all rights, be
> appropriately welcomed with Army-issued gas masks and radioactive
MOPP
> gear suits instead. While the Hawaiian tourist industry admittedly
may
> tank once photos get out depicting the rather, um, encumbered manner
> in which Hawaiian tourists will now be outfitted, on the plus side,
US
> troops would then be able to invade, occupy, and take as their own
> private playground vacant Hawaiian hotels and resorts where tourists
> and vacationers, fearing radioactive contamination, will no longer
> venture.
>
> So say goodbye, all ye citizens of the world, to the former tropical
> paradise of the Aloha state! Please know you have been forewarned and
> travel to Hawaii now at your own risk.
>
> Vacation now on the Big Island and prepare to be greeted with the US
> military’s own uniquely gracious brand of hospitality … the invisible
> “gift” of inhaled Uranium aerosol blowing in the warm tropical winds,
> bestowed upon unsuspecting residents and tourists alike, for all
> eternity.
>
> To learn more and find out what you can do to help keep Hawaii safe
> from domestic bombing and further radioactive contamination, visit
the
> folks at Protect Hawaii and say Aloha to them for me.
>
>
>
> Cathy Garger is a freelance writer, public speaker, activist, and a
> certified personal coach who specializes in Uranium weapons. Living
in
> the shadow of the national District of Crime, Cathy is constantly
> nauseated by the stench emanating from the nation's capital during
the
> Washington, DC, federal work week. Cathy may be contacted at
> savorsuccesslady3@yahoo.com .
>
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Elaine Hardy Elaine Hardy Here is a horrifying story - my brother worked for the NSA as a security analyst for several years. After the NSA, he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and some others. This is a simplistic way to put it, but basically it was my brother's job to analyze the photos that the drones took, and based on those photos recommend whether or not a "strike" should be called based on the intelligence gathered from those photos and other data. So one day my brother receives a transmission about a piece of "equipment" that cannot be identified via the photos from the drone; this piece of equipment is sitting in the courtyard of a family compound in a country in the Middle East. The walls of the compound were gated and secured. There is a detail of ground troops nearby. Some individuals were observed to be nearby and there was some activity. No other or "military"-type equipment was noted. It was my brother's job to determine WHAT that piece of equipment was, and whether or not it was a THREAT to nearby ground troops. But my brother couldn't ID the equipment from the photos the drone had taken; he was hesitant to call the strike, but were nearby troops endangered if he didn't? It was TENSE and the pressure was terrible. Finally my brother decided NOT to call the air strike - but that piece of equipment STILL had to be identified once and for all, and NOW, it had a big tarp over it - so it wasn't as visible from the air. It was making everybody v-e-r-y nervous, that they didn't know what it was. So the nearby troops sent a detail to the compound - the gates were forced open, and grandmas and grandpas and pregnant women and little kids came streaming out of the buildings (it was a multi-generational set-up, I guess), and now everybody is against the walls the of the compound at gunpoint. A leader of the detail snapped a photo of the piece of equipment under the tarp, and sent it to my brother - so that, in the future, he would know what GRAIN THRESHER looks like from a drone photo. It was a GRAIN THRESHER. An entire family of multiple generations, had nearly been decimated - BECAUSE SOMEONE IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A GRAIN THRESHER LOOKS LIKE FROM THE AIR. My brother quit his job a few months later.
Irma Martin And what is the alternative? Our troops sent in there to try to stop these terrorist? Would you feel better if our sons and daughters were killed trying to get a job done when drones does not put our troops in harms way?? Think about it!!!
Mohammad Safari @Susan Johnson, didn't you know their blood is not red enough?! And under what law US has the right to send drones to another country, no matter who they claim trying to kill.
Vicki Sharp Does or has the US known exactly who they were killing with bomb strikes from manned airplanes? Why dont we just stop killing all together and get out of wars we should have never been in to begin with?
Eric Schwing Obama's pretense of TRANSPARENCY in his war crime policies, drone murders ARE ABSURD, hypocritical
Michele A Wilcox So how many of you were for the Iraq war? When you stop and think about it there's always going to be war. So the question is which do you prefer, boots on the ground or drones? I guarantee boots on the ground will have air cover and more casualties would happen.
David Owens We know that drones have been killing innocent people for a very long time. We just brush them off as causalities of war.
Franklin Cornstalk Wasn't it bad enough USA military killed 1.1 million Iraqis. Hate to say this but for such small rogue entities elsewhere amerika seems to parlay terrorism?
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