[Mr_Tracys_Corner] V.A.,gulf war syndrome& depleted uranium

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At 06:33 AM 12/28/06, you wrote:

>5a. Heads Roll at Veterans Administration Depleted Uranium Blamed

>Posted by: " Fernwoods " Fernwoods fernwoods7

>Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:11 pm (PST)

>

>Heads Roll at

>Veterans Administration

>Mushrooming

>Depleted Uranium Scandal Blamed

>by Bob Nichols

>Project Censored Award Winner

>

>Monday, February 28, 2005 -- Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged

>today 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 never given. However, a

>special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming Depleted

>Uranium

>(DU) 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. "

>

> " 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 cover up.

>The long-term effects have revealed that DU (uranium oxide) is a virtual

>death

>sentence. "

>Bernklau continues, " This malady from uranium munitions, from which

>thousands of our military have suffered and died, has finally been

>identified as the

>cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now

>being revealed. "

>

>He adds, " Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War,

>11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, 325,000 werer on permanent medical

>disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade

>later, 56

>percent of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical

>problem. "

>The disability rate for most of the wars of the last century was 5 percent;

>and it was higher for the Vietnam War at 10 percent.

>

>Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist at the Department of Veterans

>Affairs, recently reported that since 1991, 518,739 Gulf Era veterans are

>now on

>medical disability.

>Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist who retired from the Lawrence

>Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and was 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. "

>References

>1. _ " Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets: A death sentence here

>and abroad " by Leuren Moret_

>(http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml) .

>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,

 

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