Well maybe when it is happening to Other people it's just
statistics..
How America Nukes Its Own Troops
Amy Worthington - Idaho Observer
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist
holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's
exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega billion dollar war
in Iraq is indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted
uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving.
Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually
stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.
Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal
waste into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying
Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds
per minute.1 Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are
DU-tipped.2 The M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.3 These and
British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which
continually irradiate troops in or near them.4 The A-10 "tank buster"
aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the battlefield.
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal
weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international
laws, treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated
to cause unnecessary suffering.
Support our troops
Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in
Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as
they slowly and painfully succumb to radiation poisoning.
U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead.
Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined
to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney
dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain,
unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and
premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the last Gulf
conflict so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from
multiple doses of experimental vaccines offer little defense against
further exposure to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress,
caffeine, insect repellent and radiation left over from the last war.
This is a war even the victors will lose."6
DU
When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus
traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic
particles of radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in
the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU
lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system
according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.7
The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield
soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney
failure within days.8 Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled
lethal radioactive dust is not breathing. In the first two weeks of
combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi
real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.9 Millions of DU tank
rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no
place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.
Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of depleted
uranium were used against Iraq in 1991.10 A 1998 report by the U.S.
Agency for Toxic Substances confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms
identical to those claimed by many sick vets with Gulf War
Syndrome.11 The Gulf War Veterans Association reports that at least
300,000 Gulf War I vets have now developed incapacitating
illnesses.12 To date, 209,000 vets have filed claims for disability
benefits based on service-connected injuries and illnesses from
combat in that war.13
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at Georgetown
University, is a former army medical expert. He told nuclear
scientists in Paris last year that tens of thousands of sick British
and American soldiers are now dying from radiation they encountered
during Gulf War I. He found that 62 percent of sick vets tested have
uranium isotopes in their organs, bones, brains and urine.14
Laboratories in Switzerland and Finland corroborated his findings. In
other studies, some sick vets were found to be expressing uranium in
even their semen. Their sexual partners often complained of a burning
sensation during intercourse, followed by their own debilitating
illnesses.15
Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and birth defects
suffered by the Iraqi people who have endured vicious nuclear
chastisement for years.16 U.S. air attacks against Iraq since 1993
have undoubtedly employed nuclear munitions. Pictures of grotesquely
deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are overwhelming.
born to Gulf War I vets, many babies born to troops now in Iraq will
also be afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage
and/or blood and respiratory disorders.18
Army health physicist Dr. Doug Rokke was dispatched to the Middle
East to salvage DU-contaminated tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger
counters revealed that the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were
contaminated with up to 300 millirems an hour in beta and gamma
radiation plus thousands to millions of counts per minute in alpha
radiation. Rokke recently told the media: "The whole area is still
trashed. It is hotter than heck over there still. This stuff doesn't
go away."19
DU remains "hot" for 4.5 billion years. Radiation expert Dr. Helen
Caldicott confirms that the dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war
zones "will remain effectively radioactive for the rest of time."20
The murderous dust storms which ensnared coalition troops during the
first few days of the current invasion will have significant health
consequences.
Rokke and his clean-up team were issued only flimsy dust masks for
their dangerous work. Of the 100 people on Rokke's decontamination
team, 30 have already "dropped dead." Rokke himself is ill with
radiation damage to lungs and kidneys. He has brain lesions, skin
pustules, chronic fatigue, continual wheezing and painful
fibromyalgia. Rokke warns that anyone exposed to DU should have
adequate respiratory protection and special coveralls to protect
their clothing because, he says, you can't get uranium particles off
your clothing.
DU doublespeak
The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is not a
problem. Colonel James Naughton of the U.S. Army Material Command
recently told the BBC that complaints about DU "had no medical
basis."21
The military's own documents belie this. A 1993 Pentagon document
warned that "when soldiers inhale or ingest DU dust they incur a
potential increase in cancer risk."22
A U.S. Army training manual requires anyone who comes within 25
meters of DU-contaminated equipment to wear respiratory and skin
protection.23 The U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute
admitted: "If DU enters the body, it has the potential to generate
significant medical consequences.
if the troops were to realize what they had been exposed to, "the
financial implications of long-term disability payments and
healthcare costs would be excessive."25
For pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.
Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU dangers and is
criminally negligent for neglecting medical attention needed by DU-
contaminated vets. He predicts that the numbers of American troops to
be sickened by DU from Gulf War II will be staggering.26 As they
gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn to their graves, the Pentagon
will -- as it did after Gulf War I -- deny that their misery and
death is a result of their tour in Iraq.
Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr. Durakovic's
radiation studies on Gulf War I vets were not popular with U.S.
officials. Dr. Durakovic was reportedly told his life was in danger
if he continued his research. He left the U.S. to continue his
research abroad.27
Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely unaware of how
deadly their battlefield environment is. Gulf War I troops were kept
in ignorance. Soldiers handled DU fragments and some wore these
lethal nuggets around their necks. A DU projectile emits more
radiation in five hours than allowed in an entire year under civilian
radiation exposure standards. "We didn't know any better," Kris
Kornkven told Nation magazine. "We didn't find out until long after
we were home that there even was such a thing as DU."28
U.S. vision of a nuclear planet
George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a nuclear war.
Shortly after 9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical
nuclear weapons including small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and
shells suited to commando warfare in Afghanistan.
September, 2001, Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed
that the U.S. would use tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan while
Putin would employ nuclear weapons against the Chechnyans.30
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith
writes in the Village Voice: "Built ram tough with a heavy metal
casing for smashing through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes
with the force of an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of
bang for the buck, literally two apocalypse bombs in one -- a boosted
plutonium firecracker called the primary and a heavy hydrogen
secondary for that good old-fashioned H- bomb fireball."31
Drought-stricken Afghanistan'
contaminated by these nuclear weapons.32 Experts with the Uranium
Medical Research Center report that urine samples of Afghanis show
the highest level of uranium ever recorded in a civilian population.
Afghani soldiers and civilians are reported to have died after
suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory problems, internal
bleeding and other symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Dead
birds still perched in trees are found partially melted with blood
oozing from their mouths.33
Afghanistan'
Washington, D.C. Under the protection of American soldiers, Karzai's
regime is setting a new record for opium production. Both UN and U.S.
reports confirm that the huge Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes
Afghanistan the world's leading opium producer.34 Thanks to nuclear
weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the Bush-Cheney narcotics
industry.35
ABC News asserts that keeping the "peace" in Afghanistan will require
decades of allied occupation.36 For years to come, "peacekeepers"
will be eating, drinking and breathing the "hot" carcinogenic
pollution they have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for
organized crime.
As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill Clinton
laundered $multi-millions in cocaine profits for then vice-president
George Bush Sr.37 As a partner in the Bush family's notorious crime
machine, President Clinton committed U.S. troops to NATO's campaign
in the Balkans, a prime heroin production and transshipment area.
DOD's campaign to control and reorganize the drug trade there for the
Bush mafia was yet another nuclear project.
Between 1995-2000, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and
shells across the Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and
Kosovo. As DU munitions were slammed into chemical plants, the
environment became hideously toxic, also endangering the peoples of
Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
By 1999, UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU
had caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with
agriculture, livestock and air water, and public health all
profoundly damaged.38
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium
in their urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that
hundreds of Bosnians have died of cancer from NATO's DU
bombardment.
health. Their leukemias, cancers and other maladies are dubbed
the "Balkans Syndrome." Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used
in Balkans campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal
cancer.41
U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for criminal
militarism gone mad. DOD is a pollution monster. The General
Accounting Office (GAO) found 9,181 dangerous military sites in USA
that will require $billions to rehabilitate. The GAO reports that DOD
has been both slothful and deceitful in its clean-up obligations.
The Pentagon is pressing Congress to exempt it from all environmental
laws so that it may pollute and poison free from liability.43
The Navy used prime fishing grounds off the coast of Washington state
to test fire DU ammunition. In January, Washington State Rep. Jim
McDermott chastised the Navy: "On one hand you have required soldiers
to have DU safety training and to wear protective gear when handling
DU...and submarines must stay clear of DU-contaminated waters. These
policies indicate there is cause for concern....On the other hand the
Department of Defense has repeatedly denied that DU poses any danger
whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons of DU
equipment in the soil in foreign countries, and there appears to be
no remorse about leaving it in the waters of your own country."44
DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in Indiana, Florida,
New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland and Puerto Rico. After the Navy
tested DU weaponry on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third
of the island's population developed serious illness. Many people
show high levels of uranium in their bodies. Hundreds have filed a
class action suit against the Navy for $100 million, claiming DU
contamination has caused widespread cancers.45
The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada, is a
quagmire of 26 toxic waste sites. It is also a target practice zone
for DU bombs and missiles. Area residents report bizarre illnesses,
including 17 children who have contracted leukemia within five years.
A survey of groundwater in the Fallon area showed nearly half of area
wells are contaminated with radioactive materials.46
The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly at three
nuclear plants in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where workers
handling uranium contaminated with plutonium have suffered for
decades with cancers and debilitating maladies similar to Gulf War
Syndrome.47
Prelude to a perpetual cycle of destruction, reconstruction
Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by his
administration'
the U.S. has the right to attack any nation it deems a potential
threat. He told West Point in 2002, "If we wait for threats to fully
materialize, we will have waited too long."48
It is certain that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are
lined up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's Halliburton
Corp. and the Bush family's Carlyle Group are profiteers in U.S.
defense contracts, so endless war is just good business.49
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will create special
nuclear weapons for use on North Korea's underground nuclear
facilities.50 Next August, U.S. war makers will meet to consolidate
plans for a new generation of "mini," "micro" and "tiny" nuclear
bombs and bunker busters. These will be added to the U.S. arsenal
perhaps for use against non-nuclear third-world nations such as Iran,
Syria, Lebanon.51
The solution?
Americans must stop electing ruthless criminals to rule this nation.
We must convince fellow citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein
are made in the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits.
Saddam was placed in power by the CIA.52 For years U.S. government
agencies, under auspices of George Bush Sr., supplied him with
chemical and biological weapons.53 Our national nuclear laboratories,
along with Unisys, Dupont and Hewlett- Packard, sold Saddam materials
for his nuclear program.54 Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton in the
late 90s when its subsidiaries signed $73 million in new contracts to
further supply Saddam.55 The wicked villain of Iraq was nurtured for
decades as a cash-cow by U.S. military-industrial piranhas.
If America truly supports its troops, it must stop sending them into
nuclear holocaust for the enrichment of thugs. Time is running out.
If the DU-maniacs at the Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms
peddlers are not harnessed, America will have no able-bodied fighting
forces left. All people of the earth will become grossly ill,
hideously deformed and will die prematurely. We must succeed in the
critical imperative to face reality and act decisively. Should we
fail, there will be no place to hide from the slow burn of Bush-
Cheney's merciless nuclear orgies yet to come -- or from the
inevitable nuclear retaliation these orgies will surely breed.
Notes
1. "DOD Launches Depleted Uranium Training," Linda Kozaryn, American
Forces Press Service, 8-13-99.
2. "Nukes of the Gulf War,"John Shirley, Zess@aol.com See this
article in archives at www.gulfwarvets.
3. BBC News, "US To Use Depleted Uranium," March 18, 2003; U.S.
General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: "Early Performance
Assessment of Bradley and Abrams," 1-2-92.
4. "Nukes of the Gulf War," op.cit.
5. Ibid.
6. "Invading Hiroshima," William Thomas, 2-4-2003,
www.willthomas.
7. "US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999;
also "Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to
Depleted Uranium," www.telegraph.
8. "Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days," Rob Edwards, New
Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also "Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle," Rob
Edwards, New Scientist.co.
9. "Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks," David Rennie in Washington,
Telegraph Group Limited, 1-4-03, news.telegraph.
10. "Going Nuclear in Iraq -- DU Cancers Mount Daily," Ramzi Kysia,
CounterPunch.
11. "Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,"
Peter Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01,
www.guardianlimited
12. "Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets," Ellen Tomson, Pioneer
Press, www.pioneerplanet.
Association at www.gulfwarvets.
13. "2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability: 209,000 Make VA
Claims," World Net Daily, 1-28-03, WorldNetDaily.
14. "Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, "New York Times, 1-29-
01; "Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning," Jonathon
Carr- Brown and Martin Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.
15. "Catastrophe -- Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated Partners With DU," The
Halifax Herald Limited, Clare Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is
available in archives at www.rense.com .
16. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,"
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02; "US Depleted Uranium Yields
Chamber of Horrors in Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent
(London) 12-4-01.
17. "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf War
Region with Special References to Iraq," Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms
Control Research Centre, May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth
Defects in Iraq at www.web-light.
18. "The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our Country Abandoned
Them?," Life Magazine, November 1995; "Birth Defects Killing Gulf War
Babies," Los Angeles Times, 11-14-94; "Depleted Uranium -- The
Lingering Poison," Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 6-7-99.
19. "Depleted Uranium -- A Killer Disaster," Travis Dunn, Disaster
News.net, 12-29-02.
20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.
21. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News, 3-18-03.
22. "Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread,"
Peter Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01.
23. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium,"
Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02.
24. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News, 3-18-03.
25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental
Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report,
June 1995.
26. "Pentagon -- Depleted Uranium No Health Risk," Dr. Doug Rokke, 3-
15- 03; also "The Terrible, Tragic Toll of Depleted Uranium," Address
by Dr. Rokke before congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.,12-30-
02; also "Gulf War Casualties," Dr. Doug Rokke,
www.traprockpeace.
27."Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning," Sunday Times
(UK), Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.
28. "The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An Investigative Report,"
Bill Mesler, The Nation, 5-28-99, see
www.thenation.
29. "Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan,
01.
30. Ibid.
31. "The B-61 Bomb -- The Burrowing Nuke" George Smith,Village
Voice.com 12-29-02.; also "Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs --
Nowhere to Hide," Kennedy Grey, Wired.com , 10-9-01.
32."Perpetual Death From America," Mohammed Daud Miraki, Afghan-
American Interviews, 2-24-03; also "Dying of Thirst," Fred Pearce,
New Scientist, 11-17-2001.
33. Ibid.
34. "Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer," Agence
France-Presse, 3-01-03. This article is at www.copvcia.
also "Opium Trade Flourishing In the 'New Afghanistan,
03.
35. "The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire," Michael C. Ruppert, Nexus
Magazine, February-March 2000; The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity
in the Global Drug Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co.,
revised edition due May 2003; Drugging of America, Rodney Stich,
Diablo Western Press, 1999; "Blood for Oil, Drugs for Arms," Bob
Djurdjevic, Truth In Media, April 2000, www.truthinmedia.
36. ABC News, February 27, 2003.
37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and John
Cummings, S.P.I. Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles and The Mena
Cover-up, Citizens for Honest Government, 1996; "The Crimes of Mena,
Grey Money," Ozark Gazette, 1995, www.copvcia.
38. "Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says a UN Report,"
Bob Djurdjevic, 7-4-99, www.truthinmedia.
submitted to the UN Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, "New
Depleted Uranium Study Shows Clear Damage," BBC News,8-28-99;
also "NATO Issued Warning About Toxic Ammo," Associated Press, 01-08-
01.
39. CounterPunch.
40. "Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing -- Doctor," Reuters, 1-
13- 01.
41."Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer Epidemic," BBC News, 7-
30-99.
42. "Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous," Associated Press, 9-24-02;
also Old US Weapons Called Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-
02.
43. "Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea," Andrew
Gumbel in L.A., 3-13-03, Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
44. "Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish Areas," Seattle Post-
Intelligencer, 1-11-03; Letter from Rep. McDermott to Department of
the Navy: see "Navy Fired DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of
Washington," 1- 20-03, rense.com .
45."Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On 'Enchanted
Island,'" www.telegraph.
Depleted Uranium Fired in Puerto Rico," Fox News Online, 5-28-99.
46. "The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy Bombing," Jeffrey
St. Clair, CounterPunch.
47. "DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal Cocktail of Nuclear
Waste," Jonathon Carr-Brown, www.sunday-times.
48. "Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent," Helen Thomas, Hearst
Newspapers, 3-20-03.
49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House, 2003 (New
York Times best seller.); also "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy, From
Hitler to Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden -- Insider Connections
and the Bush Family's Partnership With Killers of Americans;" Mike
Ruppert, From the Wilderness, 10-10-01; also "Bush Sr.'s Carlyle
Group Gets Fat on War and Conflict," Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK),
3-25-03; also "Halliburton Wins Contract for Iraq Oil Firefighting,
Reuters, 3-7-03; also "Cashing In-Fortunes in Profits Await Bush
Circle After Iraq War, Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-
02; also "War Could Be Big Business for Halliburton,
03.
50. "Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger," Washington Post, March 10,
2003.
51. "Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking Office," Neil
Mackay, The Sunday Herald (UK) 3-27-03; also "US Mini-Nukes Alarm
Scientists," The Guardian (UK) 4-18-01; also "US Nuclear First-Strike
Plan -- It Keeps Getting Scarier, Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive
Intelligence Review, 2-24-03.
52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the Baath Party
and installed Hussein as Iraqi dictator in 1968.
53. "United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the
Health of Persian Gulf War Veterans," Senate Committee on Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs, 1992, 1994; "U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq
Buildup," Washington Post, 12-30-02.
54. "US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped Iraq Build Its WMD,"
Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Financial Times, 12-19-02; "Full List of
US Weapons Suppliers To Iraq," Anu de Monterice,
coachanu@earthlink.
55. Huffington, op.cit.
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11,000 US Soldiers Dead from DU Poisoning
Bob Nichols - S.F. Bay View February 23, 2005
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason
Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this
month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium
munitions in the Iraq War.
Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N.
Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in
New York, stated, "The real reason for Mr. Principi's departure was
really never given, however a special report published by eminent
scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive
cause of the 'Gulf War Syndrome' has fed a growing scandal about the
continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military."
Bernklau continued, "This malady (from uranium munitions), that
thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally
been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the
guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed."
He added, "Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first
Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were
325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number
of 'Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers
who served have some form of permanent medical problems!" The
disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it
was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.
"The VA Secretary (Principi) was aware of this fact as far back as
2000," wrote Bernklau. "He, and the Bush administration have been
hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret's report, (it) ... is
far too big to hide or to cover up!"
"Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist, Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Veterans
Affairs, at the VA Central Office, recently reported that 'Gulf Era
Veterans' now on medical disability, since 1991, number 518,739
Veterans," said Berklau.
"The long-term effects have revealed that DU (uranium oxide) is a
virtual death sentence," stated Berklau. "Marion Fulk, a nuclear
physical chemist, who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab, and was also involved with the Manhattan Project,
interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the soldiers (from the
2003 Iraq War) as 'spectacular -- and a matter of concern!'"
When asked if the main purpose of using DU was for "destroying things
and killing people," Fulk was more specific: "I would say it is the
perfect weapon for killing lots of people!"
Principi could not be reached for comment prior to deadline.
References
1. Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets: A
death sentence here and abroad" by Leuren Moret,
http://www.sfbayvie
2. Veterans for Constitutional Law, 112 Jefferson Ave., Port
Jefferson NY 11777, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director, (516) 474-
4261, fax 516-474-1968.
3. Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter. Email Gary Kohls,
gkohls@cpinternet.
Email Bob Nichols at bobnichols@cox.
--- In All-Energy@yahoogro
>
> bj_yakman wrote: "...you cannot compare the prompt gamma radiation
of a
> bomb with the low level beta radiation from depleted naturally
decaying
> uranium."
>
> Apparently you feel that killing people slowly has clear benefits.
>
> The link between nuclear power and weapons of war:
>
> "Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high
ratio of
> mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The
> by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power
> stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is
acknowledged
> to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly
ingested,
> inhaled or absorbed through cuts."
>
> http://www.time.
>
> "As Dr. Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute in
> Colorado points out, "Every known route to bombs involves either
nuclear
> power or materials and technology which are available, which exist
in
> commerce, as a direct and essential consequence of nuclear power."2
In
> order to get plutonium for weapons, one needs a reactor, whether it
is a
> "research" reactor (such as the one which provided India with the
> fissile material for its first atomic bomb). or a commercial
reactor."
>
> http://www.neis.
>
> Mike
>
> bj_yakman wrote:
> >
> > Let's see 150,000 dead at Hiroshima, 250,000 times as much
radiation
> > loosed in IRAQ.
> > That would make for a whopping 37.5 billion dead in Iraq. I would
> > think that kind of body
> > count would make the news!!!
> >
> > Obviously that did not happen because the math is bogus.
> >
> > Much like you cannot compare the prompt gamma radiation of a bomb
with
> > the low level
> > beta radiation from depleted naturally decaying uranium. And just
as
> > you cannot compare
> > military use of material depleted of its usefulness to the
nuclear
> > energy community and
> > spread as part of a military action with the benefit of clean
nuclear
> > power and the care
> > taken to contain and control the resulting radiation.
> >
> > --- In All-Energy@yahoogro ups.com
> > <mailto:All-
> > <tpanayiotou@ ...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Who was it that said we should trust the military with our
Nuclear
> > > stuff??
> > >
> > > Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
> > >
> > > Bob Nichols, March 27, 2004 -
> > >
> > > As a writer I do not have a set of words to describe what 142
> > > Degrees in the shade is like. I've seen 120 D. in Phoenix and
110 D
> > > in the spa's sauna I use. One hundred forty-two degrees leaves
me
> > > speechless. Try to imagine 142 D temperature while wearing a
helmet,
> > > long sleeve shirt, long pants, a bullet proof vest, boots, and
> > > carrying a 70 pound pack.
> > >
> > > By contrast the Inuit of Alaska and Canada have thirty-seven
words
> > > to precisely talk about different kinds of snow.
> > >
> > > So, since the temperature is heating up in Iraq it seemed like a
> > > good time to float this story to different Internet sites and
news
> > > publications. There was one story in 2003 of one 19 year old
British
> > > soldier whose military job was to work in a British tank. In
Iraq.
> > > In the summer. Word is, from London, that he forgot to drink
enough
> > > water and he literally cooked in his tank.
> > >
> > > But, this story is not about the temperature in Iraq. You can
bet,
> > > though, the weather will be really important for those Americans
> > > unfortunate enough to still be in Iraq this summer.
> > >
> > > This story is about American weapons built with Uranium
components
> > > for the business end of things. Just about all American
bullets, 120
> > > mm tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000
> > > pound bombs, cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to
help
> > > our side in the war of us against them has Uranium in it. Lots
of
> > > Uranium.
> > >
> > > In the case of a cruise missile, as much as 800 pounds of the
stuff.
> > > This article is about how much radioactive uranium our guys,
> > > representing us, the citizens of the United States, let fly in
Iraq.
> > > Turns out they used about 4,000,000 pounds of the stuff, give or
> > > take. That is a bunch.
> > >
> > > Now, most people have no idea how much Four Million Pounds of
> > > anything is, much less of Uranium Dust (UD), which this stuff
turns
> > > into when it is shot or exploded. Suffice it to say it is about
> > > equal to 1,333 cars that weigh three thousand pounds per car.
That
> > > is a lot of cars; but, we can imagine what a parking lot with
one
> > > thousand three hundred and thirty three cars is like. The point
is:
> > > this was and is an industrial strength operation. It is still
going
> > > on, too.
> > >
> > > No sir-ee, putting Four Million Pounds of Radioactive Uranium
Dust
> > > (RUD) on the ground in Iraq was a definitely "on-purpose" kind
of
> > > thing. It was not "just an accident." We, the citizens of the
United
> > > States, through our kids in the Army, did this on purpose.
> > >
> > > When the uranium bullets, missiles, or bombs hit something or
> > > explode most of the radioactive uranium turns instantly to very,
> > > very small dust particles, too fine to even see. When US
Troopers or
> > > Iraqis breathe even a tiny amount into their lungs, as little
as One
> > > Gram, it is the same as getting an X-Ray every hour for the
rest of
> > > their shortened life.
> > >
> > > The uranium cannot be removed, there is no treatment, there is
no
> > > cure. The uranium will long outlast the Veterans' and the
Iraqis'
> > > bodies though; for, you see, it lasts virtually forever.
> > >
> > > But, it gets worse. Seems an Admiral who is the former Chief of
the
> > > Naval Staff of India wanted to know how much radiation this
> > > represented. He also wanted to express the amount in a figure
that
> > > the world, especially the non American world, could easily
> > > understand.
> > >
> > > The Admiral decided to figure out how many Nagasaki Atom Bombs
it
> > > would take to deliver the equivalent of the total amount of
> > > radiation deployed in Iraq in 2003 in Four Million Pounds of
> > > uranium.
> > >
> > > The Admiral also wanted to figure out how much radiation the
United
> > > States Military Forces have deployed in the last Five American
Wars,
> > > the so-called Five Nuclear Wars.
> > >
> > > That is a simple enough task for somebody like the Naval Chief
of
> > > Staff for a country that is a member of the Nuclear Club. Using
the
> > > Nagasaki bomb for the measuring stick is a particularly gruesome
> > > twist, though. For those of you in the States who do not know
it,
> > > the United States Military Forces dropped two nuclear Bombs on
Japan
> > > at the close of World War II. The whole world remembers that.
> > >
> > > One Atom Bomb was dropped by Americans on the city of
Hiroshima, the
> > > other on the city of Nagasaki three days later. About 170,000
people
> > > were incinerated immediately. It was a really big deal.
> > >
> > > It is a measuring stick that plays very well in the rest of the
> > > world; but, not very well on Fox News (Fair & Balanced) (c) or
the
> > > rest of the Fox-like American media. The Department of Energy
still
> > > lists the Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations as "tests." The
admiral
> > > released the data months ago at a scientific conference in
India.
> > > This article is the first report of the data in the United
States.
> > > It will first be released on the Internet.
> > >
> > > The admiral in India calculated the number of radioactive atoms
in
> > > the Nagasaki bomb and compared it with the number in the
4,000,000
> > > pounds of uranium left in Iraq from the 2003 war. Now, believe
me,
> > > it is a lot more complex than that; but, that is essentially
what
> > > the experts in India did.
> > >
> > > How many Nagasaki Nuclear Bombs equal the Radiation loosed in
the
> > > 2003 Iraq war? Answer: About 250,000 Nuclear Bombs.
> > >
> > > How many Nagasaki Nuclear Bombs equal the Radiation loosed in
the
> > > last Five American Nuclear Wars? Answer: About 400,000 Nuclear
> > > Bombs.
> > >
> > > Who would do something like this?
> > >
> > > We would. The only people in the history of the world to engage
in
> > > Nuclear Wars are Americans, citizens of the United States.
> > > Allegedly, the Germans and Japanese of WWII also wanted to
engage in
> > > nuclear wars, except the American Military beat them to the
draw, so
> > > to speak.
> > >
> > > Respected academic scholars could debate forever whether or not
Herr
> > > Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany, would have deployed uranium
munitions in
> > > the Sudetenland if the weapons had been available. Certainly the
> > > Germans knew just as much about uranium wars as we did at the
time.
> > > It seems doubtful that Adolph Hitler would have ordered the use
of
> > > uranium munitions there because the Sudetenland was so close to
the
> > > Fatherland, Nazi Germany.
> > >
> > > An American General named Leslie Groves was in charge of the
bomb
> > > making operation called The Manhattan Project. In 1943 The War
> > > Department knew exactly what uranium bullets and bombs were good
> > > for.
> > >
> > > If the nuclear weapons did not detonate in Japan, the use of
uranium
> > > bullets and bombs were the fall back position. It was not till
> > > Ronald Reagan was President in 1980 did the re-named Defense
> > > Department resurrect the deadly radioactive uranium bullets,
bombs,
> > > and missiles. No wonder his popular nick-name was Ronnie Ray-
Guns.
> > >
> > > The American Military knew the symptoms of radiation poisoning
in
> > > 1943 too; starting with the irritated sore throat through to an
> > > agonizing death from being cooked from the inside out.
> > >
> > > President Bush promised to invade twelve countries in the 2003
State
> > > of the Union speech. I believe the man. For some reason, some
> > > misguided Americans do not believe him, or think he
> > > was "exaggerating. " The rest of the world has every reason to
> > > believe him, though.
> > >
> > > Not to worry, the President has plenty of raw material for
> > > radioactive uranium munitions left. There are more than 77,000
Tons
> > > stored at the 103 nuclear waste plants and the several Nuclear
> > > Weapons Labs in the US. Each one makes another 250 pounds of
> > > radioactive material a day for radioactive bullets, bombs, and
> > > missiles. Not to put too fine a point on it; but, that is
enough for
> > > 40.5 more gloriously successful campaigns like the 2003 Nuclear
War
> > > in Iraq.
> > >
> > > Every year about this time the Southern winds leave a fine
desert
> > > sand on the windshields of cars parked outside in Continental
Europe
> > > and Britain. Soon this sand dust will carry a surprise. Thanks
to
> > > the Americans. Thanks to us. We did this to the world. And, we
> > > wonder why they hate and despise us so.
> > >
> > > These uranium weapons' indiscriminate killing effect gives a
whole
> > > new meaning to the age old term: cannon fodder. In Iraq, what
goes
> > > around, comes around. If not the uranium munitions themselves,
the
> > > uranium dust will be in the bodies of our returning armed
forces,
> > > time bombs slowly ticking away the lives of the gullible and the
> > > ignorant with their very own internal radiation source, the
cannon
> > > fodder of the 21st Century American Nuclear Wars.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A lot of people have done everything we can think of to stop
these
> > > nuclear wars. Even more specifically to stop the use of uranium
as a
> > > munition and shut down the nuclear power plants. We have tried
and
> > > failed for years. Why don't you give it a try? Can't hurt
anything!
> > > Write what steps you would take to turn this situation around.
> > > Contact me at: bobnichols@ ..
> > > http://www.dissiden tvoice.org/ Mar04/Nichols032 7.htm
> > <http://www.dissiden
> > > Bob Nichols writes in Oklahoma City and is the Editorial writer
for
> > > DemoOkie.com.
> > > Courtesy Ardeshir Mehta and tnet
> > >
> > > Last updated 28/02/2005
> > [snip]
> >
>
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