Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets

[Clara T]

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret


“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”


Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

[rurallib]

1. Think of all the Iraqis that will have to deal with the effects

of the DU bullets and the cluster bombs etc. There will be 50 to 100 years of misery yet to come. Is the oil really worth it?

[Mnemosyne]

2. New Iraqi parents no longer ask

if their child is a girl or a boy, but if it is normal. I will not describe the pictures I have seen.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: