Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, A death sentence for you

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.
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"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 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,"

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says

Depleted Uranium Definitively

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care:

Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to

Vets",

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html

Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic

Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World",

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html



August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:

"Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"

http://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,"

http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm



World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,

Germany, October 16-19, 2004:

http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm



International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan.

Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat:

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-
Tribunal10mar0

4.htm



"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War"

by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret,

http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html