Depleted
Uranium: How the US Military kills OUR soldiers
News-U-Need-R-U
Staff, November 14, 2005
White
Plains, NY. More than the tragedy of our pathetics
in Congress allowing an illegal war -based upon intentional
WMD lies – to continue, is the tragic and deadly continued
use of weapons that cause harm and death to not only our own
soldiers, but to Iraqi civilians.
The
truths here - such intentional destructive weapons and un-justified
military actions - are beyond the capability of most of us
to imagine.
Below
are sections from not only a timely, but also extremely accurate
and effective article:
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad by Leuren
Moret
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml
The
full article will beat www.news-u-need-r-us.com with significant
references. The News-U-Need-R-Us staff acknowledges Ms. Moret
for her considerable contribution to informing all of us about
this issue and her considerable expertise and skill in setting
forth the facts we all need.
Depleted
Uranium: (DU) a WMD
Since
1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted
uranium weaponry, which meets the U.S. government definition
of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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.
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.
This
powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated
by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever
since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen
years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991,
the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence
and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the
1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear
physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons
Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets
the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war
as “spectacular … and a matter of concern.”
This
evidence shows that of the three effects that DU has on biological
systems - radiation, chemical and particulate – the
particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant
one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code
in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes
a myriad of diseases that are difficult to define.
In
simple words, DU “trashes the body.” When asked
if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things
and killing people, Fulk was more specific: “I would
say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”
Soldiers
developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected
to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This
phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating
civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in
1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU
for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this
phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes
has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated
with internal DU exposure.
Just
467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian
Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served
in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000
on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of
disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those
soldiers who served now have medical problems.
From
A death sentence here and abroad by Leuren
Moret
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml