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Thanks, Leuren
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A DEATH
SENTENCE HERE AND ABROAD
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml
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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.
Read on:
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.
“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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