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DEPLETED URANIUM SYNDROME - VETS DENIED MEDICAL CARE
Posted By: WhiteHorseRider
Date: Saturday, 21 August 2004, 11:40 p.m.

First the U.S. government used AGENT ORANGE in Vietnam. Exposure to it
during that war, has made many U.S. Veterans, and many Vietnamese very ill.

Now, the Bush administration has been using DEPLETED URANIUM ordinance in
this war in Iraq all along. The cases of severe illness and death are
starting to be reported. And the higher-ups in our government are starting
to try, again, to cover it all up. IT HAS BEGUN....

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AMERICAN FREE PRESS.NET

DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care
Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to Vets

By Christopher Bollyn

Far from the radioactive battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, another war
is being waged. This war, over the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, is
being fought between the military top brass and the men who understand the
dangers of DU: former military doctors and nuclear scientists.

This war is for the truth about uranium weapons, and the consequences of
their use, and has been waged for more than 13 years—since the U.S.
government first used DU weapons against Iraq. Most Americans, however, are
unaware of this historic struggle, because the Pentagon has used its power
to prevent information about DU from reaching the public.

John Hanchette, editor of USA Today from 1991 to 2001, in a recent interview
with anti-DU activist Leuren Moret, said he had written several news stories
about the effects of DU on gulf wars veterans. Every time he was ready to
publish a story about the devastating illnesses afflicting soldiers,
however, the Pentagon called USA Today and pressured him not to publish the
story. Hanchette was eventually replaced as editor and now teaches
journalism to college students.

Dr. Doug Rokke, 37-year Army veteran and former director of the Army’s
Depleted Uranium Project, has become an outspoken “warrior for peace” in the
war against DU weapons.
(snip)

“Anyone who demands medical care and environmental remediation faces ongoing
and blatant retaliation,” Rokke told AFP. “Anybody who speaks up—their
career ends.”
(snip)

The military records of one of Rokke’s comrades, who suffers from the
effects of DU exposure, have been completely “gutted” from Army archives,
Rokke told AFP.

“They [defense officials] willfully ignore existing Department of Defense
directives that require prompt and effective medical care be provided to
‘all’ exposed individuals,” Rokke says.
(snip)

“Today,” Rokke writes, “although medical problems continue to develop,
medical care is denied or delayed for all uranium-exposed casualties while
Defense Department and British Ministry of Defense officials continue to
deny any correlation between uranium exposure and adverse health and
environmental effects.”

Rokke said the individuals at the Department of Defense are engaged in a
“criminal” conspiracy to deny the toxicity of DU weapons. “The lies by
senior Defense Department officials are designed to sustain use of uranium
munitions and avoid liability for adverse health and environmental effects,”
he said. According to Rokke, a recent Gulf War Review reported that only 262
vets had been treated for DU poisoning through September 2003.
(snip)

“The CDC is going to do a whitewash on DU,” Marion Fulk, a former nuclear
chemical physicist at Lawrence Livermore Lab, said. Fulk told AFP he had
received this information directly from CDC officials.
(snip)

The ATSDR fact sheet: “The radiation damage from exposure to high levels of
natural or depleted uranium are [sic] not known to cause cancer.”

“No apparent public health hazard,” the CDC assessment of Livermore lab,
published June 29, said about local exposure levels to tritium, a
radioactive isotope of hydrogen, Fulk said.
(snip)

DU is very radioactive, however. While one gram of U-235 emits 81,000 alpha
particles per second, U-238 emits 12,000 per second. These high-energy
particles coming from DU particles lodged in the body cause the most damage,
according to Fulk and others.

“Depleted uranium dust that is inhaled gets transferred from the lungs to
the regional lymph nodes, where they can bombard a small number of cells in
their immediate vicinity with intense alpha radiation,” said Dr. Asaf
Durakovic, former Pentagon expert on DU.
(snip)

“Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals are probably the
ground troops [who] re-enter a battlefield following the exchange of
armor-piercing (DU) munitions,” SAIC published in its July 1990 magazine.
“Short-term effects of high doses can result in death, while long-term
effects of low doses have been implicated in cancer,” SAIC wrote.
(snip)

Painful breathing and respiratory problems are the first and most common
symptoms of DU inhalation, Rokke said. Dr. Janette Sherman told AFP she met
a 31-year-old female former soldier at a Maryland veteran’s hospital who had
recently served in Kuwait. Sherman, a toxicologist, was shocked when the
young woman told her that she required a lung transplant.

FULL STORY AT - WWW.AMERICAN FREE PRESS.

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A DEATH SENTENCE HERE AND ABROAD....VOLATILE
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A DEATH SENTENCE HERE AND ABROAD....VOLATILE INFO!
Posted By: Moonrings <Send E-Mail>

Date: Sunday, 22 August 2004, 12:51 a.m.

IN A PERSONAL NOTE FROM LEUREN MORET TODAY SHE HAS ASKED THAT WE NETWORK
THIS ARTICLE FAR AND WIDE. THIS INFORMATION IS EXTREMELY VOLATILE. For
instance, see below:

"...40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in
just 16 months." She is speaking of a unit that went into Iraq in the 2003
Military Offensive.
~~~ Moonrings ~~

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

A DEATH SENTENCE HERE AND ABROAD

by Leuren Moret

At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets
raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers,
all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and
fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their
recent tour in Iraq.

Photo: www.americanfreepress.net

“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”

From: San Francisco Bay View with Permission to Post from
the Author, Leuren Moret

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 Support Directorate, 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.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:
American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I:
“Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity,”
www.americanfreepress.net/depleted_uranium.html; Part II: “Cancer Epidemic
Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,”
www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html
August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: “Depleted Uranium: The
Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,”
www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm
August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: “Marin Depleted Uranium
Resolution Heats Up – GI’s Will Come Home To A Slow Death,”
www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01
World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19,
2004: www.worlduraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers/speakers.htm
International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge
Niloufer Baghwat:
www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm
“Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War” by Akira Tashiro,
foreword by Leuren Moret, www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html
Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation
issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress
and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore
Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca
Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she
can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.

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