A death sentence here and abroad

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Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
By Leuren Moret

?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

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@xxxxxxxxxx
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