War, Iraq, Radiation,Genocide, Population Control, Death, Birth Defects, Biochemical Agents, SSRI's Depleted uranium is a health risk to our soldiers and is causing birth defects

[Guest guest]

Dear Fernwoods (?),

Can Depleted Uranium

1. I understand that the American soldier that is being exposed to Depleted

Uranium

in Iraq is having his/her gonads exposed to radiation and therefore more

likely to have cancer alterations to their DNA and

birth defects in the offspring. Can, for example, the semen of returned

soldiers cause the females with whom they copulate

to have cancer or any other type of health care impact being exposed to

a soldier that has been exposed to depleted

uranium?

2. Are persons who are not sexually active with returning Iraq soldiers such

as family members in close physical contact and

eating with the same utensils and their toothbrushes in near proximity,

etc. at any health risk because of any radiation or

biochemical exposure while in Iraq?

3. Are persons who are in social, work, church, or any public exposure to

soldiers returning from Iraq who have been

exposed to biochemical agents and radiation at any health risk from

contact?

4. Does exposure to depleted uranium and/or biochemical agents cause

symptoms that might be diagnosed as " mental illness "

that would be treated with Selective Serotonin Reinuptake Inhibitors

(SSRI-antidepressents, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Prozac, etc.)

that might have the side effect of suicide as reported in the

Congressional hearings in Nov. that the FDA now admits is

cauing CHILDREN to commit suicide but has not taken off the market?

5. Are families of military deployed in Iraq more likely to take

antidepressents to cope with the stress?

Thanks,

Dr. Sandra Lance, D.C.

Daughter of Alma Virginia Sanders

Antidepressent Suicide Victim

 

 

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From Karen:

I am attempting to save the lives an the health of thousands of people. I

hope you don't object to my efforts and will take the time to read about

depleted uranium. If this is too long, I highlighted the main points in

yellow. I

apologize to anyone who feels that this is off topic, but since depleted

uranium

is affecting the health of our soldiers, their wives and children as well as

the people in Iraq it seems like people on health, spiritual, and

alternative

news lists would all be interested. Most media is not covering this story,

but

that does not mean that it isn't true. Please just delete if you don't care

about the huge increase in birth defects of children born to people exposed

to

DU. If you are concerned, an easy action to take is to research the topic

yourself to check for accuracy, then help others become informed citizens.

Please

copy and paste, removing my name and email, and send to anyone that may be

interested. I have already sent it with my name and email to over 1,000.

Copy

and pasting will prevent <<. I included the groups I sent it to at the

bottom,

so you don't send it to ones I already sent to.

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" I believe this battle is winnable. When the American people realize that we

are shooting nuclear wastes into other people's backyard, poisoning our very

own, inflicting innumerable casualties on other people, then I think the

American people will rise, and we will see the day when nations beat our DU

swords

into plowshares " .

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http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/8.html

US/British Forces Continue Use of

Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite

Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects

 

 

 

Sources:

The Sunday Herald

March 30, 2003

Title: " US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal' "

Author: Neil Mackay

Hustler Magazine

June 2003

Title: " Toxic Troops: What our Soldiers Can Expect in Gulf War II "

Author: Dan Kaplevitz

Children of War

March 2003

Title: " The Hidden Killer "

Author: Reese Erlich

Faculty Evaluator: Rick Williams JD

Student Researcher: Darrel Jacks, Jason Spencer

 

 

 

British and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells

in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a UN resolution which

classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.

 

Nobel Peace Prize candidate, Helen Caldicott, states that the tiny

radioactive particles created when a DU weapon hits a target are easily

inhaled through

gas masks. The particles, which lodge in the lung, can be transferred to the

kidney and other vital organs. Gulf War veterans are excreting uranium in

their

urine and semen, leading to chromosomal damage. DU has a half-life of 4.1

billion years. The negative effects found in one generation of US veterans

could

be the fate of all future generations of Iraqi people.

 

An August 2002 UN report states that the use of the DU weapons is in

violation of numerous laws and UN conventions. Doug Rokke, ex-director of

the

Pentagons DU project says " We must do what is right for the citizens of the

world- ban

DU. " Reportedly, more than 9600 Gulf War veterans have died since serving in

Iraq during the first gulf war, a statistical anomaly. The Pentagon has

blamed

the extraordinary number of illnesses and deaths on a variety of factors,

including stress, pesticides, vaccines and oil-well fire smoke. However,

according to top-level U.S. Army reports and military contractors,

" short-term effects

of high doses (of DU) can result in death, while long-term effects of low

doses have been implicated in cancer. " Our own soldiers in the first Gulf

War

were often required to enter radioactive battlefields unprotected and were

never

warned of the dangers of DU. In effect, George Bush Sr. used weapons of mass

destruction on his own soldiers. The internal cover-up of the dangers of DU

has

been intentional and widespread.