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An On-Going Illegal
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Depleted Uranium (DU): They Keep
On Lying!!!
Bush’s Missing WMD Found And IS
Being Used IN IRAQ: The Radioactive, Deadly, Depleted Uranium (DU)!
Over One Million
Deadly Effects OF DU Well Known! See page 5
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The Italian Government Awards 30 Million Euros to indemnify the Italian Soldiers Exposed To Depleted Uranium! See page 10
Child of U.S Soldier Pays Price For Father’s DU
Exposure! See page 11
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Iraqi Babies Paying Terrible Price – Severe Birth
Defects – From DU Use In Populated Areas! See page 12
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Reach 360,000 ! See page 16
DU Carried to
How Negligent, the
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Table Of Contents
Subject/Article Page #
Bush Missing Iraq WMD has Been Found in
and One Million U.S. Soldiers are its Victims 3
Over One Million soldiers
exposed: 8
Deadly Effects OF DU Well Known!
Ministry of
Defense (MoD) knew shells were
cancer risk 5
World Health Organization (WHO) ‘suppressed’
scientific study into depleted uranium cancer
fears in
CNN: Depleted Uranium Hazards 7
Former
Director of the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project reveals toxic effects of
African Dust Storms Bring Depleted Uranium to the
€30m
veterans’ DU compensation package approved
by Italian Cabinet 10
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Bush Missing
No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Bush told us were in
Tuckahoe, NY (PRWEB) October 29, 2008 – REVISED Author Paul J. Landis has completed an enhanced web site and the new "Tribune Gazette" to support updates and an updated title to his book "A Real 9/11 Commission," all of which provide dramatic evidence and information about the on-going tragic threat to over one million U.S. soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians: the radioactive Weapon of Mass Destruction - Depleted Uranium (DU).
www.wethepeoplewethemedia.com, .
In the book, web site and Tribune Gazette, Landis explains, the issue of
Depleted Uranium use by our military is put in the context of the 'illegal'
Iraq War. For example, In 2005 the ASMFE recognized the illegality of the
Also, Landis continues, the book, web site and "Tribune Gazette" develop a theme based upon the question: Is there a "New Iron Curtain Around the USA, A media Iron Curtain". As evidence of this "New Iron Curtain": How many Americans have been informed by our 'mainstream' media of 1) what is DU and what are the consequences of its use by the military, 2) informed about its use in Iraq and 3) informed that over one million U.S. soldiers and countless innocent Iraqi civilians, have been exposed to it and 4) one of the results of exposure to DU is the births of deformed babies, U.S. babies as well as Iraqi babies?
The pictures with this article graphically show that Depleted Uranium is a lethal, unconscionable, radioactive weapon and the extent to which it has and will continue to cause illnesses and the loss of life should be unacceptable.
Of the use of Depleted Uranium by our military, Dave Lindorff reports in his "Radioactive Wounds of War":
"U.S. forces first used DU in the 1991 Gulf War, when some 300 tons
of depleted uranium--the waste product of nuclear power plants and weapons
facilities--were used in tank shells and shells fired by A-10 jets. A lesser
amount was deployed by
While most of us may not have the background to understand what the implications of 360 tons vs. 10 tons of DU is, we can grasp the clear message that 3000 tons of DU as reported above by Dave Lindorff and that the "DU munitions are exploding in populated urban areas" is a catastrophe.
HAVE DU WILL TRAVEL is the cover of the March 2006 edition of The Lone Star Iconoclast featuring a series of excellent articles about DU. See note 4 below.
In this edition in the interview of Leon Smith, Editor-in chief of The Lone Star Iconoclast, Schwartz states "They have exposed close to a million of our troops.". That was in March 2006.
In the same interview Schwartz tells us "They put 425,000 Americans in Desert Storm and over 300,000 of them are having medical disability issues." And "The Canadians told me, "Oh, for the record, the reason we didn't go to Iraq is we are already seeing some huge health issues on the Canadian troops that participated in Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. We're not going to be exposing our folks to this stuff anymore. We're against it." Now, they're coming to grips in their own country with some very real and very tragic health stories, and our government is sitting on it." See note 4 below, page 15
The implications of these numbers are numbing: there is huge potential of many Iraq War vets ill and dying and their wives vulnerable to becoming infected and to give birth to deformed offspring.
For the people of
See http://www.wethepeoplewethemedia.com/children.htm.
The article summaries below highlight evidence that populations outside of Iraq are not safe from the effects of DU. Landis tells us, the tile of Chapter 23 in my book is "Un-Knowing Participants in the Story of Depleted Uranium" to help bring attention to this issue.
The March 2006 edition of The Lone Star Iconoclast also includes this Interview with Dr. Ernest Sternglass By W. Leon Smith"
"The issue of greatest concern is that Americans at home as well as
the people in the
"... Measurements by the Weapons Establishment in
African
Dust Storms Bring Depleted Uranium to the
Saharan dust storm in 2000, traveling east
across the Atlantic out of
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"Dust storm plumes from northern Africa travel thousands of miles
across the Atlantic transporting millions of tons of sand and dust with
bacteria, viruses, pollen, pollution, and radioactive isotopes such as
depleted uranium from the Middle East and Central Asia.1 The easterly trade
winds carry the dust across the Atlantic in 5-7 days at about 10,000 feet.2
Almost all of it is rained out into the environment within two months,
including the depleted uranium and other radioactive isotopes from the
Sahara. In fact these atmospheric dusts are what make sunsets red. The
seasonal African storms peak in July, contributing to a reddish haze across
the U.S. Southeast. From June to October the Caribbean and Central America
are targeted by the storms, but the
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/18/dust.microbes/index.html
And
for people in Europe, Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in
contamination of
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/06/18/dust.microbes/index.html
The harsh and unfortunate reality we must consider is that given the global movement of dust storms like these, no one, ultimately, anywhere in the world, is safe from the effects of Depleted Uranium.
Do
these issues deserve and demand our considered attention?
Note 1
AFL-CIO Calls for Rapid Return of
Note 2
AFSCME 2008 Convention RESOLUTION NUMBER 85
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, August 6th, 2008
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=16697 See also Page xx
Note 3
Radioactive Wounds of War
Tests on returning troops suggest
serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in
By Dave Lindorff, August 25, 2005, http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2298/
Note 4
THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, W. Leon Smith, editor-in-chief
Have DU Will Travel, Cove with featured DU articles Wednesday, March 1, 2006, Vol. 7, No. 9
http://lonestaricon.com/2006/Online/09iconoclast.pdf www.lonestaricon.com
Significant Depleted Uranium Articles: www.wethepeoplewethemedia.com/du.htm
See also the "We the People - We the Media Tribune Gazette" |
Un-Knowing Participants in the Story of Depleted Uranium From Chapter Twenty-three, "A Real 9/11 Commission Will Help Free America Now!" ISBN: 097604-0824 ### http://www.prweb.com/printer/1515254.htm |
Risks of
DU are well Known!
Ministry
of Defense (MoD) knew shells were cancer
risk
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/mod_cancer_du.html
Guardian/Special reports on DU : MoD knew shells were cancer risk
Special report: depleted uranium
Richard Norton-Taylor -Thursday January 11, 2001
Army doctors warned four years ago that exposure to
depleted uranium, which is used in US and British
anti-tanks shells, increased the risk of developing lung, lymph and
brain cancer.
The warnings, in an internal MoD document, are in
marked contrast to
persistent public assurances - repeated by the armed forces minister, John Spellar, to the Commons on
Tuesday - playing down the risk
from DU.
Its publicly stated view is that there is a
potential but extremely small risk from soluble DU, a toxic
chemical that could damage the kidneys.
But an unpublished document by MoD medical experts, dated March 1997 and seen by the Guardian, paints a
very different picture.
"Inhalation of insoluble uranium dioxide dust
will lead to accumulation in the lungs with very slow clearance - if any,"
it says: "Although chemical toxicity is
low, there may be localized radiation
damage of the lung leading to cancer."
In a devastating passage under the heading
"Risk assessment relating to Gulf war uranium exposure", it
warns: "First and foremost, the risk of occupational exposure by inhalation must be reduced."
It goes on to say: "All personnel... should be
aware that uranium dust
inhalation carries a long-term risk... [the dust] has been shown to increase the risks of developing lung,
lymph and brain cancers."
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World Health Organization (WHO)
‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in
Radiation
experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war
pose
long-term health risk By Rob Edwards, Environment
Editor http://www.sundayherald.com/40096
An
expert report
warning that the long-term health of
The
study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults
could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing DU, which is
radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the
World Health Organisation (WHO), which employed the main author, Dr Keith
Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately
suppressed, though this is denied by WHO.
Baverstock
also believes that if the study had been published when it was completed in
2001, there would have been more pressure on the
Hundreds
of thousands of DU shells were fired by coalition tanks and planes during the
conflict, and there has been no comprehensive decontamination. Experts from the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have so far not been allowed into
“Our
study suggests that the widespread use of depleted uranium weapons in
“There
is increasing scientific evidence the radio activity and the chemical toxicity
of DU could cause more damage to human cells than is assumed.”
Baverstock
was the WHO’s top expert on radiation and health for 11 years until he retired
in May last year. He now works with the Department of Environmental Sciences at
the
While
he was a member of staff, WHO refused to give him permission to publish the
study, which was co-authored by Professor Carmel Mothersill from
“I
believe our study was censored and suppressed by the WHO because they didn’t
like its conclusions. Previous experience suggests that WHO officials were
bowing to pressure from the IAEA, whose remit is to promote nuclear power,” he
said. “That is more than unfortunate, as publishing the study would have helped
forewarn the authorities of the risks of using DU weapons in
These
allegations, however, are dismissed as “totally unfounded” by WHO. “The IAEA
role was very minor,” said Dr Mike Repacholi, the WHO coordinator of radiation
and environmental health in
Baverstock’s
study, which has now been passed to the Sunday Herald, pointed out that
The
study suggested that the low-level radiation from DU could harm cells adjacent
to those that are directly irradiated, a phenomenon known as “the bystander
effect”. This undermines the stability of the body’s genetic system, and is
thought by many scientists to be linked to cancers and possibly other
illnesses.
In
addition, the DU in
“The
radiation and the chemical toxicity of DU could also act together to create a
‘cocktail effect’ that further increases the risk of cancer. These are all
worrying possibilities that urgently require more investigation,” he said.
Baverstock’s
anxiety about the health effects of DU in
UNEP,
which surveyed DU contamination in
Haavisto’s
greatest worry is when buildings hit by DU shells have been repaired and
reoccupied without having been properly cleaned up. Photographic evidence
suggests that this is exactly what has happened to the ministry of planning
building in
He
also highlighted evidence that DU from weapons had been collected and recycled
as scrap in
“It is
ridiculous to leave the material lying around and not to clear it up where
adults are working and children are playing. If DU is not taken care of,
instead of decreasing the risk you are increasing it. It is absolutely wrong.”
http://www.sundayherald.com/40096 Copyright © 2004 smg sunday
newspapers ltd. no.176088
BBC showed Vincent Brooks Conducting a PRESS
CONFERENCES DURING THE
ATTAQ ON IRAQ in Doha (Katar) and by whom the subject DU is suppressed
by the
US/UK authorities: "NO QUESTIONS ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM"
The
Made a Training Film.
How many or our soldiers have seen
it?
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July
17, 2007: CNN and the Risks of Depleted Uranium Use!
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Dogpile.com du hazard awareness
YouTube
- Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness - US Army Training Video
Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness - US Army
Training Video ... Depleted Uranium (DU) Radiation Awarness Training Video
DOD ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93PBZIyqBs
U.S.
Military Training Movie. Depleted Uranium Real Video
Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness ... and
manuals about depleted uranium munitions. ... Prepared to Deal with Depleted
Uranium Contamination. ...
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3582.htm
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GOOGLE du hazard awareness
VIDEO: US
Veterans and Depleted Uranium (DU)
The army’s leading expert on DU hazard awareness training concedes these are all possibilities, but
This Global Research article shows transcript to CNN
Program about DU Global Research, July
17, 2007
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Gulf war vets on disability, Exposed
to DU: Over One million now!
From page 8, Dr. Rokke article
below: “Sadly
United States leaders did not learn and consequently a review of the same
casualty data reveals that as of May 30, 2007 out of the 1,129,340 American
military personnel who deployed to the Gulf only 963,083 remain alive while at
least 407,911 individuals have applied for lifetime medical care. “
“As of May 2007”! That why current
estimate of soldiers exposed to DU is over One million!
Former
Director of the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project reveals toxic effects of
America's Military Operations
by Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD.
After
more than 5 years of unprovoked and unjustified war in
While
uranium weapons contamination remains and will remain a serious hazard and
can't be cleaned up the hazardous materials that have been dispersed throughout
these regions intensifies the adverse health and environmental effects.
The
extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons
contamination is not limited to combat zones in the Balkans,
I am
amazed that seventeen years after was I asked to clean-up the initial uranium
weapons mess from Gulf War 1 and that over twelve years since I finished the
depleted uranium project that United States Department of Defense officials and
others still attempt to justify uranium munitions use. How can the leaders
of the
A
review of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf War Veterans
Information system 'GWVIS' May 2007 report reveals that out of 696,842
Americans who participated in Gulf War 1 as of May 30, 2007 only 620,266 are
still alive and that at least 280,623 of those left alive have applied for
lifetime medical care because exposures to battlefield toxins.
Sadly
United States leaders did not learn and consequently a review of the same
casualty data reveals that as of May 30, 2007 out of the 1,129,340 American
military personnel who deployed to the Gulf only 963,083 remain alive while at
least 407,911 individuals have applied for lifetime medical care.
According
to casualty data published in the recent issues of a Army Times at least 29,395
Americans have been wounded in action (WIA) and at least 4000 have no been
killed in action (KIA). Obviously the majority of all casualties are classified
as "disease and non-battle injuries" (DNBI) and unrelated to
actual combat actions but are related to the complex toxic exposures. While Army
Times editors report that 89,360 Iraqis have been killed other estimates
range from 600,00 to more than 1 million.
The
number of Iraqi and other casualties who would be classified as disease and non
battle injuries remains elusive but must be proportional to United States DNBI
casualties. These numbers are staggering and can never be justified .
Verified
medical problems include: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Malignant
Neoplasms, Benign Neoplasms, Diseases of Endocrine/Nutritional/ Metabolic
Systems, Diseases of Blood and Blood Forming Organs, Mental Disorders, Diseases
of Nervous System/ Sense Organs, Diseases of Circulatory System, Disease of
Respiratory System, Disease of Digestive System, Diseases of Genitourinary
System, Diseases of Skin, Diseases of Musculoskeletal System/Connective System,
Symptoms, Signs and Ill Defined Conditions, and Injury/Poisonings.
Beyond
these diagnosed medical problems we must look at what will happen in the future
because of extensive air, water, soil, and food contamination. It is obvious
that war with the use of today's weapons such as uranium weapons and consequent
releases of complex toxic materials causing immediate and eternal adverse
health and environmental effects can no longer be justified. Consequently, it
is imperative the President of the
1.
medical care for all casualties;
2.
thorough environmental remediation;
3.
immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance with
medical care and environmental remediation requirements;
4.
and
Dr.
Doug Rokke was the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project director from 1994 –
1995.
www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/04/17/02335.html
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€30m veterans’ DU compensation package approved by Italian Cabinet
Italian
compensation package agreed after Ministry of Defense convinces government of
link between ill health and DU exposure. Health survey of personnel who served
overseas to be published in the next few months.
9
January 2009 - ICBUW
During
a meeting of the Italian Cabinet on the 18th December 2008, the Italian
Ministry of Defense, Ignazio La Russa, managed to win approval for a €30m
compensation package for DU victims. The money will be paid out over the next
three years.
In
addition to the financial assistance for sick veterans, the decision
acknowledges that some service personnel have become ill through exposure to
uranium weapons. At a press conference following the Cabinet meeting, the
Ministry said: “It's a duty for us to support the soldiers and their families,
victims of depleted uranium and nano-particles.” This important statement was
largely ignored by the mainstream media.
The
decision marks the final step of a process begun by the previous Prodi
government who appointed an investigative commission. The commission finished
its work in March 2008 and while it didn’t name DU as a definitive cause of ill
health among veterans, it did find that environmental pollution in war zones
where DU had been used as a likely cause of illness.
The
commission also stated that the burden of proof should be inverted, concluding
that proof that the service personnel had been deployed in areas where DU had
been used was sufficient evidence to support compensation when they later got
ill or when heavy metal nano-particles were found in their bodies. This
important move has been of great help to the families of soldiers who have died
and to personnel ill with leukaemia who are suing the state administration.
One
such compensation case was that of the widow of helicopter pilot Stefano
Melone. In December, and after many years of fighting, the High Court finally
agreed to a compensation package for his death.
However,
in spite of the Cabinet’s decision, two major issues still remain, both concern
the health assessment of Italian personnel who have returned to
Hundreds
of officials have been involved in collecting and collating data on ill
soldiers from each Italian military district and the results are overdue. The
data has been collected in paper format and the thousands of often incomplete
paper files are slowly being transferred into digital format. The original
deadline for the survey was October 2008 and Defence Ministry staff are working
hard to complete the survey. The results – the first complete screening of
Italian personnel – are expected to be publicly announced in a few months. It
is hoped that the results will give a clearer picture of the extent of ill
health among Italian veterans.
In
addition to the health assessment being published later than planned, veterans
groups, including Osservatorio Militare and Anavafaf have complained that the
data will be incomplete. The investigation only covers the decade between 1996
and 2006, this means it will exclude the years when Italian troop were deployed
in
This
year will be an important one for the Italian scientific committee nominated by
the government at the end of 2007 and whose work has been delayed for a year.
The committee includes nuclear energy expert Prof. Massimo Zucchetti,
nano-particle researcher Maria Antonietta Gatti and the epidemiologist Valerio
Gennaro.
International
Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons: The Problem / The Veterans
www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/222.html
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Two
Iraq
War Veterans, G. Matthew and
H. Reed, spoke on
Wednesday, June 29, at the
Army National Guard Spec.
Gerard Matthew with his
baby
born with a deformed right
hand.
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In early
September 2003, Army National Guard Spec. Gerard Darren Matthew was sent home
from
One side of Matthew's face would swell up each morning. He had constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, blackouts and a burning sensation whenever he urinated.
Shortly after
his return, his wife became pregnant. On June 29, 2004, she gave birth to a baby girl who was missing three fingers and most of her right hand.
They have seen photos of Iraqi babies
born with deformities that are eerily similar.
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Another
guardsman from
Matthew
believed that his illness and his daughter's deformity were caused by his
exposure to depleted uranium (DU), a component used in tank armor and weapon
shells. He asked the Army to test his
urine for DU, but never got the test results. Finally Matthew and Reed sought help from the New York Daily News to
arrange for independent urine testing for DU. They both were tested positive
for depleted uranium (DU).
DU is a
radioactive, heavy metal denser than lead, which allows it to penetrate armor
easily. Additionally, when DU hits a
tank's metal armor, the heat of the impact can melt the armor and generate
clouds of DU dust which can be inhaled or ingested by soldiers or
civilians. The DU particles lodged inside bodies become a nightmare for health
hazard.
The U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology
Research Institute has found that DU
produced chromosome (genetic) damage and caused delayed reproductive death (J. Inorg. Biochem. 2002, 91: 246-52
and J. Environ. Radioact. 2003, 64:
247-59). In 2002, the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection
of Human Rights declared that DU was a
weapon of mass destruction, and its use a breach of international law.
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Nothing depleted about 'depleted
uranium' Disturbing photos of Iraqi children
By Abel Bult-Ito January 22, 2006 news-miner.com and uruknet.info
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Iraqi and visiting doctors, and a number of news reports, have reported
that birth defects and cancers in Iraqi children have increased five- to
10-fold since the 1991 Gulf War and continue to increase sharply, to over
30-fold in some areas in southern
The Pentagon
has been using radioactive weapons for at least a decade and a half with full
complicity of at least three White House administrations and Republican and
Democratic congressional legislators. Conservatively, at least 300 tons and
1,700 tons of depleted uranium were used in the Gulf War and the current Iraq
War, respectively. This is about 70 grams of depleted uranium per Iraqi
citizen, and if inhaled or ingested, it is enough to kill them all.
Is this not
radioactive genocide, especially when our troops used and continue to use most
of the depleted uranium munitions in densely populated areas such as
After the 1991
Gulf War, about 1 in 4, or 150,000,
As described by a
report of the World Health Organization Depleted Uranium Mission to Kosovo,
uranium can be found in rocks and soil and contributes to natural background
levels of radioactivity. Depleted uranium is a waste product of uranium
enrichment for nuclear reactors and is about 60 percent as radioactive as
naturally occurring uranium. Depleted uranium is considered weakly radioactive.
Nevertheless,
depleted uranium is considered nuclear waste and has to be disposed of
accordingly, which is expensive and a potential environmental hazard. The
nuclear industry must be very pleased the
Depleted uranium
is really a misnomer, because the potentially harmful effects are by no means
depleted. Research reports have found that when depleted uranium is ingested or
inhaled, it can cause cancers and birth defects. It has considerable
heavy-metal toxicity.
Photos of Babies Deformed at Birth as a Result of Depleted Uranium (DU) 2003 photos: Dr. Jenan Hassan
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As stated in the WHO report, because of its high density, depleted uranium is used in armor-piercing ammunition and as reinforcement against conventional weapons. Upon impact, the depleted uranium fragments burn at intense heat, and 10 to 35 percent of it becomes aerosolized. This aerosolized uranium "dust" is the most harmful component because it can easily be ingested or inhaled.
Wind
and people walking through it also easily disperse the depleted uranium dust.
This dust is a predominant byproduct of military use of depleted uranium, in
contrast to, for example, exposures in uranium mines or nuclear reactors.
Our
troops in
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The continued use of depleted uranium harms our own troops and innocent
civilians exposed to our war machine, is un-American, and a crime against
humanity. We need a worldwide ban on depleted uranium use.
You have probably noticed Fairbanks Daily News-Miner staff writer's reports as
an "embedded journalist" with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team
in
Sadly, she and those of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, if they survive
the war, will have a high chance of coming down with Gulf War Syndrome. How much
support do you think they will then get from our government or their employers?
Abel Bult-Ito is an associate professor of biology at the
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_go_ot/troop_brain_injuries
Wartime troop brain injuries could reach 360,000
By
PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press
Writer Wed Mar 4,
2:57 pm ET
The
estimate of the number injured — the vast majority of them suffering
concussions — represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women
who have served in
The
estimate came in a Pentagon news conference on activities planned this month to
bring attention to brain injuries. The doctors said the number could be as low
as 180,000, based on estimates that between 10 percent and 20 percent of troops
might have received such injuries.
The
previous high estimate offered publicly was 320,000 in a study released a year
ago by the private Rand Corp. It was based on about 1.6 million who had done
tours of duty in the wars from late 2001.
Though
so-called "traumatic" brain injury can range from a mild form such as
concussions to severe forms with penetrating head wounds, officials said the
majority of injuries among troops are the mild form.
The
overwhelming majority heal — and heal without treatment — but an estimated
45,000 to 90,000 troops have suffered more severe and lasting symptoms, said
Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, the head of the Defense Centers of Excellence for
Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.
The
Army alone spent $242 million last year for staff, facilities and programs to
serve troops with brain injuries, said Lt. Col. Lynne M. Lowe of the Army
surgeon general's office.
Sutton
said that, as in previous wars, the research and other work being done by the
military will eventually benefit the civilian world. Whether the injuries occur
while people ride bicycles, play football, skateboard or ski, "we know
that this is an issue across the country," she said.
"In
the past ... it was difficult to get this on the radar screen," said Dr.
James Kelly, director of the
"I
think that now you're seeing it being taken very seriously," Kelly said.
"The wartime experience has been a big part of that."
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“The decision to go to war was based
on false claims about
AFSCME 2008 Convention Antiwar RESOLUTION
NUMBER 85
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees August 6th, 2008
THE
WHEREAS:
The war in
WHEREAS:
The war has cost over $520 billion. It now costs $341.4 million per day. Taxpayers will pay $135.4 billion for President Bush’s request for additional war spending in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. This same amount of money would provide 39 million people with health care for a year or over 18 million additional places for children in Head Start. As the number of home foreclosures grows, and food and fuel prices reach new records every day, this money is needed here at home; and
WHEREAS:
The
government has spent over $102 billion since 2003 on contracts in
WHEREAS:
AFSCME and the AFL-CIO have adopted
statements calling for our troops to be brought home as soon and as safely as
possible. The decision to go to war was based on false claims about
WHEREAS:
Opposition
to the war in no way implies criticism of the men and women fighting in
WHEREAS:
Given all
we ask of our soldiers, it is a national disgrace and an outrage that they
cannot get decent medical care and financial support when they return from
war. The Veterans’ Administration was
already overburdened and under-funded before the first troops went to
WHEREAS:
The country owes troops who sacrifice abroad a good education when they return home. Enactment of the new GI Bill had to overcome opposition in Congress and veto threats from President Bush because it would “cost too much.”
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
That
AFSCME expresses its profound gratitude and admiration for the men and women in
uniform. A timetable for the quickest
possible withdrawal of
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That AFSCME urges the Bush administration to stop cutting veterans’ benefits. We support efforts to provide veterans the health care and mental health services they need. We also applaud passage of the new GI Bill to provide veterans with the educational opportunities they deserve; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED:
That AFSCME and its affiliates will work with, participate in and support USLAW in pursuit of these goals and in solidarity activities with Iraqi unions.
SUBMITTED BY: INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD
(amended in committee and by action on the floor of the convention)
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=16697
How Negligent, the
Over One Million of a generation of
young men and women, exposed to a deadly radioactive Weapon of Mass Destruction
the
Our Army knew that warnings were
needed and failed to insure that our soldiers were informed.
Do the Iraqi citizens deserve the
tragic birth and health issues they are exposed to?
The Italian Government has
recognized the hazards and effects of Depleted Uranium on their soldiers and
have funded monies to assist in diagnosis and treatment.
We can answer all questions about
Depleted Uranium exposures by testing every
Is there a ‘valid’ test?
Yes; Using urine samples and a
process involving a “Mass spectrometer”,
A valid diagnosis of any DU exposure
can be made.
Isn’t it time
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