Horror of USA's Depleted Uranium in Iraq Threatens World

[Linnea]

American use of DU is "A crime against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time." US Iraq Military Vets "are on DU death row, waiting to die."

"I'm horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It's going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."

The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British radiation expert, Fellow of the University of Liverpool in the Faculty of Medicine and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk, talking about the best-kept secret of this war: the fact that by illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world.

For these weapons have released deadly, carcinogenic and mutagenic, radioactive particles in such abundance that-whipped up by sandstorms and carried on trade winds - there is no corner of the globe they cannot penetrate-including Britain. For the wind has no boundaries and time is on their side: the radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years and can cause cancer, leukemia, brain damage, kidney failure, and extreme birth defects - killing millions of every age for centuries to come. A crime against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time.

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Dr. Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying, 'The [US government's] Veterans Administration asked me to lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body.' He concluded, 'uranium does cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and uranium does kill. If we continue with the irresponsible contamination of the biosphere, and denial of the fact that human life is endangered by the deadly isotope uranium, then we are doing disservice to ourselves, disservice to the truth, disservice to God and to all generations who follow.' Not what the authorities wanted to hear and his research was suddenly blocked.

During 12 years of ever-growing British whitewash the authorities have abolished military hospitals, where there could have been specialized research on the effects of DU and where expertise in treating DU victims could have built up. And, not content with the insult of suggesting the gravely disabling symptoms of Gulf veterans are imaginary they have refused full pensions to many. For, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the current House of Commons briefing paper on DU hazards says 'it is judged that any radiation effects from possible exposures are extremely unlikely to be a contributory factor to the illnesses currently being experienced by some Gulf war veterans.' Note how over a quarter of a million sick and dying US and UK vets are called 'some.'

Britain and America not only used DU in this year's Iraq war, they dramatically increased its use-from a minimum of 320 tons in the previous war to at minimum of 1500 tons in this one. And this time the use of DU wasn't limited to anti-tank weapons-as it had largely been in the previous Gulf war-but was extended to the guided missiles, large bunker busters and big 2000-pound bombs used in Iraq's cities. This means that Iraq's cities have been blanketed in lethal particles-any one of which can cause cancer or deform a child. In addition, the use of DU in huge bombs which throw the deadly particles higher and wider in huge plumes of smoke means that billions of deadly particles have been carried high into the air-again and again and again as the bombs rained down-ready to be swept worldwide by the winds.

* When are we ever going to stand up and say enough? Anyone want to stand with me? We need communication in this country, and activism. Write to your local newspapers and community groups.

[palosheights]

has this topic ever been discussed on c2c? there was a news article on du and its effects in a regular newspaper that was highlighted on rense. i guess we can't hide from something that DOES effect everyone and everything.

andy

[Iris]

This is a big problem, and it's going to get bigger. It will come home to roost in more ways than one.

How The US Is Nuking Its Own Troops

On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.

Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.

Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.(1) Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.(2) The M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.(3) These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which continually irradiate troops in or near them.(4) The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the battlefield.(5)

DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.

Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as they slowly and painfully succumb to radiation poisoning. U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain, unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the last Gulf conflict so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses of experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect repellent and radiation leftover from the last war. This is a war even the victors will lose."(6)

When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.(7)

The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within days.(8) Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is not breathing. In the first two weeks of combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of

On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.

Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.

Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.(1) Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.(2) The M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.(3) These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which continually irradiate troops in or near them.(4) The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the battlefield.(5)

DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.

Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as they slowly and painfully succumb to radiation poisoning. U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain, unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the last Gulf conflict so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses of experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect repellent and radiation leftover from the last war. This is a war even the victors will lose."(6)

When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.(7)

The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within days.(8) Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is not breathing. In the first two weeks of combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.(9) Millions of DU tank rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.

.3 million each, blasted Iraqi real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.(9) Millions of DU tank rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no place on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.

More at link (above).

[Iris]

I wouldn't touch a thing from an Army Surplus store!

Amy: It's really RADIOACTIVE WAR, Ingri. It's one of the most important topics of our day. Radioactive war has been raging since Bush-Cheney started bombing Afghanistan in 2001. And yet most Americans still don't understand that in THEIR name, and with THEIR money, this administration, the U.S. Congress and the Pentagon have committed nuclear war against both Iraq and Afghanistan, two non-nuclear countries whose citizens had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11...

Amy: Experts estimate is that at least 1,000 TONS of uranium weaponry has been used against Afghanistan. Researchers who recently took urine samples from sick people across Afghanistan found that they suffer the highest reading of non-depleted weapons-grade uranium ever measured in the bodies of a civilian population. The precious underground water of Afghanistan is now radioactive. These contaminated people are dying painfully of radiation side effect--raging cancers and Leukemia. Many children there are being born with hideous birth defects...

Amy: That's right. Afghanistan under the U.S.puppet government is a premier narco-state according to the United Nations. Bush-Cheney are now in control of 87 percent of the world's illegal production of opium. Just about every educated person knows that US. military and intelligence agencies have used the international narcotics trade to fund their black budgets for decades. After the Taliban so rudely terminated the opium industry in the late 90s, Bush-Cheney had to demonize Afghanistan as an excuse to invade and re-establish the lucrative opium industry. Remember the Bush dynasty has also been deeply involved with the international cocaine industry since Bush Sr. ran the illegal and sordid Iran-Contra project during the Reagan era.

I wonder if the opium coming out of Afghanistan is now radioactive?

Amy: Iraq is a horrible killing field. During Gulf War I in 1991, the U.S. military used 350 tons of uranium weaponry in Iraq. This likely explains why 325,000 Gulf War I vets are now on permanent medical disability. Then, in 2003 when the U.S. invaded Iraq again, both the Pentagon and the United Nations admitted that coalition forces used another 2,200 tons in March and April of that year alone. So, at that point, Iraq--only 2/3 the size of Texas--was drenched in 2,500 tons of radioactive waste. According to calculations by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, that's enough radiation to generate over 20 million new cancers, or a case of cancer for about every citizen in Iraq. But the war and occupation have been roaring on for an additional two years and no one has yet calculated how many additional tons have been used against the insurgency and the civilian population since the invasion. Wherever our troops fight rebellious Iraqis, they use uranium weaponry, contaminating themselves and innocent civilians all over again. Uranium weapons were developed for use against hard targets like tanks, not for controlling crowds and pulverizing stone buildings...

Ingri: WHY DO THE PEOPLE OF NUCLEAR WAR ZONES NEED RIGGED ELECTIONS AND A FAKE DEMOCRACY IF THEY ARE NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD?

Amy: Good point! The stacks of science data produced by the U.S. government for the last 60 years convinces us that all human beings--and sadly, all animals--still breathing in Iraq are the walking dead. Scientists from the Uranium Medical Research Center in Canada have produced scientific data confirming that the soil, the water and the people in Baghdad and Basra and in the farming areas are "hot" with radiation. The Iraqi people now suffer a rampant cancer epidemic and their genetic code is toast.

Ingri: SOUNDS LIKE GENOCIDE TO ME.

Amy: You hit it, Ingri. Bush-Cheney's radioactive wars are among the most abhorrent genocide projects in human history. The Iraqis are sitting on the second largest oil deposits in the Middle East. These brave and independent people are an impediment to plunder--so we just get rid of them by slow burn...

INGRI: SO, THOSE MAGNETIC "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" STICKERS OUGHT TO SAY "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS FOREVER." ...

Ingri: WE HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN IRAQ, HAVE WE?

Amy: Never. We have always known that the Pentagon's number of war casualties is completely false. Especially in regards to the number of dead. Dan Rather confirmed last year that since the beginning of the war, the U. S. government has cooked the books by listing only those killed in actual combat, instead of the full number of troops killed for all reasons. Deaths in transit to medical facilities are not added to the official tally and neither are deaths that occur once soldiers return home. Americans will probably never know the true number of dead from the war on terror because, as our troops die from complications of radiation poisoning, they will simply fall off the charts.

Now think about how Bushco is building American bases in Iraq so that we'll have people stationed there for years to come. And realize that the Pentagon will continue to claim that radiation poisoning has nothing to do with our vets' illness...

Ingri: BUT WE COULD WARN POTENTIAL RECRUITS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE GETTING INTO IF THEY JOIN THE MILITARY NOW.

Amy: Yes, that is one of the most important things we can do. We can try to save lives of many young people who are being bribed with bait-and-switch financial incentives to get sucked into radioactive war zones. There are 6,000 military recruiters crawling through our high schools and colleges, mall parking lots and game parlors looking to put their hooks in the jaws of 17-year-olds slated to become the next crop of radiation fodder. These high-pressure war salesmen are turning many of our schools into military recruitment centers. And of course, there is always the possibility of a draft. All Bush-Cheney have to do is stage another 9/11 type terror incident and they will get draft legislation passed overnight!

Ingri: SO HOW DO WE GET TO THESE KIDS TO EDUCATE AND WARN THEM?

Amy: I think the best resource materials are two great new documentaries. I hope our listeners will grab a pen to write this down.

*A DVD titled "Beyond Treason," to be released summer, 2005, will fully document Gulf War Illness and uranium poisoning suffered by our troops. This documentary by Capt. Joyce Riley's group is being produced by The Power Hour in cooperation with the Gulf War Veterans Association. The website for information is http://www.gulfwarvets.com.

*The other documentary is a fantastic German film (in English) which takes the viewer right into radioactive war zones with researchers who actually film evidence of nuclear weapons used by coalition forces. They also interview Iraqi doctors working with people dying from radiation. Available in both video and DVD, this film is titled "The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children." It is very graphic, showing horrible suffering, but it good for people who want to see and understand the science of radioactive war. This video would be fantastic to show at colleges and high schools in every community. You can call 413-773-7427 for information on obtaining this great film. Or go to: http://www.traprockpeace.org. This site is a treasury of information on uranium weaponry and keeps us abreast of what is happening in the fight to restore sanity to the world.

More Here

[daboodaddy]

It seems that the USA is the "rogue" nation. A coulpe of years back, I put up a URL which stated USA manufacturers and others would be adding DU to steel which was designated for consumer products, like toasters and bicycles, among other things. I do not wish to appear as a parinoid fiil, but I think "someone wants to kill or severely damage We The People.

[Iris]

Gee whiz, do you mean we need a geiger counter to check out kiddies' bicycles?!

[daboodaddy]

Possibly. I hope it was a disinfo article for the sake of Humanity.

[palosheights]

where can we get geiger counters that are cheap and mass-produced so that we dopes can check the radiation readings in our homes. sorry, i should have known, if its cheap then we can get then from china/walmart superstores.

honestly though, if we could send these to each military person in iraq then they would know if they are being subjected to du radiation.

andy

[Iris]

Another good one by Bill St. Clair.


From 'Duty, Honor, Country' To Depleted Uranium Cancer
An Open Letter To Every American Serviceman
By Douglas Westerman
5-21-5

Dear U.S. Soldier:

Did you know that:

* You've helped deposit over 1 million lbs. Of Depleted Uranium (DU) dust in Iraq?

* You're told to stay away from DU as it could cause cancer?

* Numerous families in Iraq have multiple cancer victims?

* Many of these individuals have multiple cancers, a very rare occurrence in Iraq prior to the use of DU weapons?

* Hideous birth defects, once virtually unknown in Iraq are now commonplace?

* 600 children per day were being treated for radiation sickness at one hospital in 2003?

* Many of these kids will get cancer, leukemia, and die within the next 5-10 years?

* Former Army Colonel & expert in nuclear medicine, Dr. Asaf Duracovic says the V.A. told him to lie about the effects of DU?

* Dr. Durakcovic also says we have "committed war crimes by using weapons that kill indiscriminately, which are banned under international law."

* The Uranium Medical Research Centre says we have "poisoned a significant portion of the civilian population" in many areas of Afghanistan?

* In one returning unit, 40%, or eight out of twenty U.S. soldiers have cancer?

* In one 100 clean-up crew, 30 were dead within 10 years, with many others being sick, although the crew leader said, "We were all really healthy before going over."

* An Italian Newspaper reported 109 deaths among its troops from DU, saying this figure "exceeded deaths from all other causes?"

* The civilian population of Iraq is at a much greater risk than the Italian soldiers?

* The children of Iraq are at a greater risk than the adults?

* An international court of justice found your Commander-in-Chief guilty of war crimes?

* This Court's legitimacy had been ratified by every major Western Democracy?

* In one group of returning U.S. Soldiers, 67% fathered children with severe birth defects, even though all had fathered healthy children?

* The U.S. D.O.D. has a small army of spokespeople to convince you and the American Public that the above information is not true?

* You can verify the truth of the above information in a few hours with a good Internet Search Engine?

When a child is born in Iraq, the question is no longer "Is it a boy or a girl?" but rather, "Doctor, is the child normal?"

Sincerely,
Douglas Westerman
[email protected]

For Further Information
http://journalhome.com/aspendouglas/

[Ninerism]

It seems that the USA is the "rogue" nation. A coulpe of years back, I put up a URL which stated USA manufacturers and others would be adding DU to steel which was designated for consumer products, like toasters and bicycles, among other things. I do not wish to appear as a parinoid fiil, but I think "someone wants to kill or severely damage We The People.

Dboodaddy, jeepers, i can hear it now, kids screaming, "Daddy, I want a glow in the dark bicycle, too!"

EEGADS, we are nuts!
Ninerism

[Iris]

Dboodaddy, jeepers, i can hear it now, kids screaming, "Daddy, I want a glow in the dark bicycle, too!"

EEGADS, we are nuts!
Ninerism

Maybe you're not old enough to remember the radium watch dials (my sis had one of those watches) and other glow-in-the-dark things? When I memorized my Bible verses correctly (third grade), the Presbyterian church rewarded (nuked) me with a glow-in-the-dark cross. I used to suck on it, and used it to read by under the covers after lights out. I dunno where it is now, but wherever it is, I'm sure it's still glowing.

As I've said here before, I wouldn't buy anything from an Army/Navy surplus store.