Depleted Uranium A Worldwide Calamity
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DEPLETED URANIUM: THE CHILD KILLER Information, Links and Photos on:A Weapon of Mass DestructionIt's time to ban the use of Depleted Uranium in war
Depleted Uranium is used in shells for its armor penetration and
destructive power. When a round of Depleted Uranium hits a
target up to 70% of the round can burn up during impact and
penetration. This creates a firestorm of Depleted Uranium oxide
particles of extremely fine ceramic uranium dust (some finer
than military gas mask filters) that is spread by the wind,
inhaled and absorbed into the human and animal bodies and is
taken up by plants and animals, becoming part of the food
chain. According to the United Nations Environmental Program
any portion of the round leftover in the soil can can pollute
the environment and create up to a hundredfold increase in
uranium levels in ground water. The Journal of Environmental
Radioactivity reported, Children playing with soil may be
identified as the critical population group, with inhalation
and/or ingestion of contaminated soil as the critical pathway.
In May-June 2003 issue of E: The Environmental Magazine Ed
Ericson wrote "the Pentagon has cashiered or attempted to
discredit its own experts, ignored their advice, impeached
scientific research into DUs health effects and assembled a
disinformation campaign to confuse the isssue. Soldiers in the
US and Brittan who handle Depleted Uranium ammunition are
required by military regulations to wear gloves and masks. DU
is certainly a weapon of mass destruction (WMD).
Some 300
tons of Depleted Uranium were used by coalition forces in
southern Iraq in 1991. Ten years ater the war, DU shell holes
are still 1,000 times more radioactive than the normal level of
background radiation and the areas around the shell holes are
still 100 times more radioactive. Experts say that the fine
uranium dust produced by the shells has spread by the wind,
contaminating large areas of the surrounding region, including
the city of Basra, which is 200 kilometres away from sites where
large numbers of DU shells were fired.
Between
1,000 and 3,000 tons of Depleted Uranium was used during the
three-week war in Iraq in 2003 with a considerable part of
it used in the cities. There was wholesale bombardment of
targets inside densely-populated areas. Journalist Scott
Peterson from the Christian Science Monitor used a simple
Geiger counter to measure levels that at times reached 1,900
times the normal background rate in parts of Baghdad in May
2003. The city has a population of six million. It took 2 to 4
years for the rise in cancers in Iraq to become evident after
Gulf War 1. By the end of the decade there will be an explosion
of cancers in the Iraqi population with children, who play in
the dirt, making up a significant number of those to die of
cancer.
Of
the soldiers who fought in Gulf War 1, more than 500,000 are now
on permanent disability suffering a range of medical disorders
including lymphomas, leukemia, and lung, brain,
gastrointestinal, bone and liver cancers collectively described
as "Gulf War Syndrome". We have killed more of our own people
than they have.
These
numbers will be repeated among those returning home from the
current Iraqi war. We should expect well over a million
casualties from these wars. And that is just our
casualties. The total number of casualties from the use of
these WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in the war torn
countries will be unknowable. A large number of them will
be children who inhale the depleted uranium dust while playing
in the yard.
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What did they do to deserve this?
 
In as much as ye have
done it to the least of them ye have done it unto me. Jesus
GULF WAR VETShttp://www.gulfwarvets.com/du.htm
BALKANS, GULF WAR VETShttp://www.welfarestate.com/du/ DEPLETED URANIUM BURNING, AN ETERNAL MEDICAL DISASTER
In Volume 2 of
the Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health, under uranium
alloys and compounds, page 2238, it reads:
PENTAGON POISON"When the 1991 war started, Dr. Doug Rokke, a Vietnam veteran, forensic scientist and retired army major, was recalled from academia and sent to the Gulf as part of the army's Depleted Uranium Assessment team. "The US Army made me their expert," he says. "I went into the project with the total intent to ensure they could use uranium munitions in war, because I'm a warrior. What I saw as director of the project led me to one conclusion: uranium munitions must be banned from the planet, for eternity, and medical care must be provided for everyone" - those on the firing end and those on the receiving end. Many in Rokke's Gulf team are now dead. He himself suffers from serious health problems including brain lesions and lung and kidney damage. When government doctors finally agreed to test him in November 1994, three-and-a-half years after he fell ill, while he was director of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project, he was found to have 5,000 times the permissible level of radiation in his body - enough to light up a small village. DU, he says, is the stuff of nightmares."
BIRTH DEFECTSIraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on US depleted uranium
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