9 soldiers test positive for depleated uranium contamination.

[FloridaPat]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/dura-a21.shtml

Send in the flag wavers first!


"A group of American soldiers suffering from unexplained illnesses due to service in the Iraqi war have been diagnosed with radiation contamination likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by US troops.

An investigation funded by the New York Daily News found that several members of the 442nd Military Police Company, based in Orangeburg, New York, “almost certainly” inhaled radioactive dust from exploded American shells manufactured with depleted uranium (DU).

A nuclear medicine expert and former Army doctor, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, tested nine men who had been battling serious physical problems that began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah. Laboratory tests revealed traces of two manmade forms of uranium in urine samples from four of the soldiers. The men—Sgt. Hector Vega, Sgt. Ray Ramos, Sgt. Agustin Matos and Cpl. Anthony Yonnone—are the first confirmed cases of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the war, according to the Daily News report. The soldiers contacted the newspaper after six of them were denied testing for DU by Army doctors and the three who were tested waited months for results. Two in the latter group suspiciously tested negative.

Dispatched to Iraq a year ago, the unit, made up for the most part of New York policemen, firefighters and correction officers, has been providing security for convoys, operating jails and training Iraqi police.

“These are amazing results, especially since these soldiers were military police not exposed to the heat of battle. Other American soldiers who were in combat must have more depleted uranium exposure,” Durakovic, a colonel in the Army Reserves who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, told the Daily News. Dr. Durakovic is affiliated to the Uranium Medical Research Centre, an international association of scientists and physicians—the first study organization to detect DU in the urine of Canadian, British and US troops who served in the first Gulf War."

[ContraBass Black]

1. That's the way

we reward our soldiers.

[htuttle]

2. But, we were assured by the many Pentagon boosters here that there was...

...nothing wrong with a little radiation. That it was just a bunch of half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everyone its bad for you -- nothing but pernicious nonsense, we were told!

How can this be?

:eyes:

[progressiveBadger]

3. Direct from the mouths

of the same people who watched above ground nuclear testing wearing only protective eyeware. I thought we already figured this all out? So... next they are going to tell us that cigarettes don't cause cancer afterall.

[DRoseDARs]

4. A previous study funded by the New York Daily News concluded...

..."World's oceans filled with water."

[anarchy1999]

5. I am so sorry for all our returning soldiers.

Go to google and enter Doug Rokke. You will learn more than you ever wanted to know. It is not just our soldiers, it is their families and it is also all the people that still live in Iraq, they survived the war, they will not survive DU.

[FloridaPat]

6. I wonder if that was the original idea to use DU? Get rid of all

the Iraqis. Where's an international criminal tribunal when you need it!

[Karenina]

7. PNAC "bullet point"

Population reduction. I feel sorry for us all that so many cannot look the *monster in the face. If it kills YOU it's MONEY IN THEIR POCKET$. What is not to get here? :shrug:

If American citizens ALLOW the *cabal to maintain their "control" the "atmosphere" of this biosphere will no longer support Homo Sapiens. What a dotty lot we are, eh?