A former US military researcher's thoughts on depleted uranium with video

[Guest guest]

If you question the truth about the dangers of depleted uranium, please don't

miss this one.

 

A link about DU sent by someone in one group, in response to my post, led me

to do a search on Dr Douglas Rokke, who is a former US Army nuclear health

physicist and was formerly the Pentagon's expert on the health effects of

depleted uranium ammunition. Go to the site below for the full article and a

video of

Dr Douglas Rokke.

 

 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4439.htm

 

 

Blowing the N-whistle : Depleted uranium: How dangerous is it?

A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the

health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars.

 

" It's lonely, " he says slowly. " It's very lonely. I made a decision. I was

given a job. I did my job. I learned something. I gave them an answer they

didn't want. I became persona non grata. And the better parts of my life ended. "

Rokke, now 54, is convinced that he and other members of his team in Iraq

were contaminated and that the tests he undertook showed that significant

amounts

of the DU vaporised on impact, making it extremely dangerous when inhaled. He

pulls up his trouser leg to reveal the red rash he says appeared within hours

of his contact with DU. He holds up his hand and moves fingers clumsily to

show that his fine motor skills have gone. He has respiratory problems and

cataracts and has medical reports showing that the amount of uranium in his

urine

is way above acceptable limits.

He has become a campaigner, not just for better clean-up and treatment, but

for the weapons to be banned. " After everything I've seen, everything I've

done, it became very clear to me that you just can't take radioactive wastes

from

one nation and just throw it into another nation. It's wrong. It's simply

wrong. "

 

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4207.htm

 

Go to the link above for another article and audio about a

National Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D.

Doug Rokke, Ph.D., is former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU)

Project

Dr. Rokke made a number of startling revelations. Over 221,000 veterans from

Gulf I are on permanent disability. Now, soldiers are coming back sick. DU

is suspected as a cause. He goes into details about how the soldiers who

went to the Gulf were ill-trained and ill-equipped to deal with radioactive

munitions. These munitions cause a radioactive and highly toxic dust when

used.

 

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A great site with more from Doug Rokke:

 

http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html

 

 

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It would be great if you could join those working to educate others about

depleted uranium and share this informatiom. When people understand we can stop

it's use and save thousands of lives and the environment. But please copy and

paste and do not include my email. I already sent to the following groups:

(( ),

(CLG_Dem_Only ), (Educate-Yourself_Forum ),

(Mr_Tracys_Corner ), (Kucinich4President ),

(veterans4kucinich ),

(HealingOilsandMore ), (Whistleblowers_News )

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I cut and pasted the info on depleted uranium and

forwarded it on to these groups.

 

http://www.veteransforpeace.org

email VFP,

Center for Conscience and War http://www.nisbco.org

email nisbco

http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl

email wrl

WRL New England

email

wrlne

http://www.objector.org

email

info

American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org

email youthmil,

http://www.girights.org

email

girights,

Hiroshima Never Again http://www.gzcenter.org

email info