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Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

 

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Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

A death sentence here and abroad

 

by Leuren Moret

 

" Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in

foreign policy. " - Henry Kissinger, quoted in " Kiss the Boys Goodbye:

How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam "

 

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large

regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally

the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S.

has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which,

like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of

Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia

have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

 

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.

 

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 Supportate, 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 which 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

which 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.

 

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by

43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs

told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets

now than even after World War II.

 

They brought it home

 

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but

they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally

contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some

women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed

soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have

hysterectomies because of health problems.

 

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had

all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their

post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born

with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood

diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy

members of the family are the children born before the war.

 

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep

records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

 

How did they hide it?

 

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The

blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document

from the Manhattan Project.

 

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison

gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the

father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at

a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

 

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended

developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic

bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that

radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land

vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust

which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter

or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or

cause illness very quickly.

 

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which

could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies

and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

 

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU

weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S.

supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

 

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow

out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been

sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.

 

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from

1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and

at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with

DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

 

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in

endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and

cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons

tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges

around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing

leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies

that DU is the cause.

 

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they

were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level

radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical

doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon

with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose

and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

 

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning

soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the

soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

 

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000

medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in

C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near

Washington, D.C.

 

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three

medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak

about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of

the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to

convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at

Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a

presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in

Oregon " and nothing overseas … nothing political. "

 

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto,

Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival

(PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that

didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national

president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly

succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing

photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure

and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

 

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR,

reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch

by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr.

Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key

issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with

the CIA.

 

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in

successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone

informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American

Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans

had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing

in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical

information being transferred to new troops. The " next DU war " had

already been planned, and those planning it wanted " no skunk at the

garden party. "

 

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

 

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael

Collins Piper, " The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How

America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated

the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global

Empire, " details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by

Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

That just happens to coincide with getting the DU " show on the road "

and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only

to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for

control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on

the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

 

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their " godfather " and

Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a " war against terrorism "

long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His

son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United

States.

 

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative

network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties

to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have

facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former

President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are

recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

 

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who

could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the

genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and

Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the

areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied:

" It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger. "

 

In Zbignew Brzezinski's book " The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy

and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, " the map of the Eurasian chessboard

includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The " South "

region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated

permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made

with thousands of tons of DU.

 

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of

DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has

used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000

Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of

radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

 

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle

East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger

said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange,

" Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy. "

 

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with

brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried

around the world and deposited in our environments just as the " smog

of war " from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America,

the Himalayas and Hawaii.

 

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press

release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020.

What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that

depleted uranium is a death sentence … for all of us. We will all die

in silent ways.