America's Greatest Crime - Radioactive Genocide against Children of Iraq

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AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME IS RADIOACTIVE GENOCIDE Allen L Roland's Radio

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October 13, 2007

 

America's greatest crime against humanity is radioactive genocide

particularly against the children of Iraq who are the innocent victims of our

illegal

war, occupation and economic rape of Iraq ~ We have the blood of countless

innocent children on our hands and it will take generations to remove the stain

of our illegal and inhumane transgressions : Allen L Roland

 

Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under

the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because

they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.

 

America's greatest crime against humanity is radioactive genocide, and

prepare to be shocked when you see the pictures of these maimed and disfigured

Iraqi children ~ who are the innocent victims of our illegal war, occupation

and

economic rape of Iraq. _http://tinyurl.http://ti_ (http://tinyurl.com/adoq2)

 

We have the blood of countless innocent children on our hands and it will

take generations to remove the stain of our illegal and inhumane

transgressions.

 

Allen L Roland

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(http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/10/12.html)

 

photos: Dr. Jenan Hassan

_http://www.uruknet.info/?p=37167_ (http://www.uruknet.info/?p=37167)

 

 

Entire article below:

 

Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium' Abel Bult-Ito

January 21, 2006

 

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 Iraq. Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer

patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are

especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily

polluted by depleted uranium.

 

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 Baghdad and Fallujah? Depleted uranium has a half-life of billions of

years. Consequently, Iraq will be a wasteland forever and essentially

uninhabitable for anyone.

 

After the 1991 Gulf War, about 1 in 4, or 150,000, U.S. veterans came down

with what is referred to as " Gulf War Syndrome. " Most of the ailments

characteristic of Gulf War Syndrome are consistent with radiation or heavy-metal

poisoning. Veterans' children are now also born with higher proportions of birth

defects and other genetic disorders, according to sporadic accounts. The

Pentagon continues to deny the harmful effects of depleted uranium or its role

in

Gulf War Syndrome.

 

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 U.S. military has found a

way

to get this stuff off their hands cheaply.

 

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.

 

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 Iraq will be severely affected by this radioactive war, not

only because a lot more depleted uranium has been used and continues to be

used, but also because they have been there a lot longer than during the Gulf

War. Hundreds of thousands of our troops will come down with Gulf War Syndrome

as a result of depleted uranium poisoning, and thousands will die from it.

Thousands of their children will be born with genetic diseases, cancers and

birth defects.

 

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

Mosul, Iraq. Her " feel-good " stories do not tell you the reality of what is

happening in Iraq. Will she report on depleted uranium poisoning as a result of

heavy U.S. bombing of Mosul?

 

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 University of

Alaska Fairbanks and is a member of the Fairbanks Coalition for Peace and

Justice.

 

Photos of Babies Deformed at Birth as a Result of Depleted Uranium (DU) 2003

 

photos: Dr. Jenan Hassan

_http://www.uruknet.info/?p=37167_ (http://www.uruknet.info/?p=37167)

 

 

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