DU: What Are We Doing To Our Own? (and to others)

Vatic Note: This is an excellent video with much technical information not only on the impact on Iraqi's but also on US soldiers and the specifics of how and why they get contaminated and are continuing to use this deadly mist of uraniam for what purpose? The next section we cover is the extent of training about DU that our soldiers receive and half of it is a lie by omission and after hearing and watching the above video, its now seriously a crime since the military knows full well what the impact is on our men from the residue from DU armament. Why are the refusing VA medical coverage for this problem?   Its a form of murder to refuse to treat these men when the VA knows full well the DU is at fault.  But then what can we expect if we don't clean up the battle field.    It appears our enemy is "UNSEEN" AND NOT OUT ON THE BATTLE FIELD. 
When the British asked us to clean it up, we refused and this was under both Bush and Clinton. So, why? What is the purpose of intentionally killing our own people and killing our so called enemy in this very inhumane way? Just read and listen to what has been progressively accumulating and spreading globally all over the planet. Remember, this DU mist is in the soil and water table of all these nations below that we have listed, not including those that receive the DU from jet streams and air movements to other countries. Have we laid the foundation for the demise of life on this planet? Do we have an obligation to stop this now? Are the leaders making this decision to use DU intentionally trying to eliminate all life from this planet? Is it intentional? It is truly beginning to look that way. And what should we do about it is the last, final and big question at this point. Do we have anything to lose by taking action now? Are we now in a position where we are required to literally act in self defense???


DU: What Are We Doing To Our Own?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLLTElowQeY
Emerge0and0see
October 12, 2007

Bud Deraps, an 82 year old WWII Navy veteran, speaks out against Depleted Uranium.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLLTElowQeY

Pentagon interference in disclosure of DU on our fighting men.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1955.cfm

Excerpt:

NEWS BRIEF: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care: Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to Vets", By Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, 8/21/2004

"Far from the radioactive battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, another war is being waged. This war, over the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, is being fought between the military top brass and the men who understand the dangers of DU: former military doctors and nuclear scientists. This war is for the truth about uranium weapons, and the consequences of their use, and has been waged for more than 13 years ... "Most Americans, however, are unaware of this historic struggle, because the Pentagon has used its power to prevent information about DU from reaching the public. John Hanchette, editor of USA Today from 1991 to 2001, in a recent interview with anti-DU activist Leuren Moret, said he had written several news stories about the effects of DU on gulf wars veterans. Every time he was ready to publish a story about the devastating illnesses afflicting soldiers, however, the Pentagon called USA Today and pressured him not to publish the story."

Is Use Of Depleted Uranium (DU) Bioterrorism?

http://lonestaricon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=736:is-use-of-du-bioterrorism&catid=35:worldwide&Itemid=69
Written by W. Leon Smith, Editor-In-Chief
Friday, August 06 2010 02:40 am

Excerpt:

Depleted uranium, radioactive toxic waste that is a by-product of uranium enrichment, was first used in 1973 in the Yom Kippur war when Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the U.S. government gave it to Israel to use on the Arabs. It is now used in Afghanistan and Iran, plus some European countries. Extensive studies by scientists have indicated that exposure to DU aerosols from DU munitions before and after they are exploded are poisoning soldiers at the scene and civilians who remain in their countries, since radiation contamination lasts for many years once it gets into the air, soil, and water. Some describe the spread of the material as genocide.

“I have watched too many of my friends die without answers, without treatment, and without benefits,” Sullivan said. He charged that the VA is doing little in the form of research, operating “in a vacuum without input” and suggested that if VA Secretary Eric Shinseki “won’t fix VA’s Research Office, then Congress must intervene and place Gulf War research outside of their area of responsibility.”

He also urged Shinseki to investigate “the improper and arbitrary termination of essential Gulf War illness research, since a July 15, 2009 report concluded that $75 million in Gulf War illness research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was ‘impeded’ by the VA.”

“Without any reasonable scientific basis, VA arbitrarily terminated UTSW research, potentially undermining more than 15 years of critical inquiry,” he said. Veterans for Common Sense “remains outraged VA’s Research Office has not been held accountable.” He said that the VA has not released information about who “impeded” the research and that a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has been submitted to obtain documents about the “cabal of VA staff intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans.”

Sullivan pressured the VA to investigate the “adverse impact of depleted uranium, a radioactive toxic waste used as ammunition.”

He explained that in 1993 the Deputy Secretary of Defense ordered the Army Secretary to “Complete medical testing of personnel exposed to DU contamination during the Persian Gulf War.”  “No medical testing was performed,” he said, asking that Shinseki “complete the research ordered 17 years ago.”

According to the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a bioterrorism attack is “the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs (agents) used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants.”

U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Training film (with edits)

What hath we wrought? Depleted Uranium, affectionately known as DU is a carcinogenic heavy metal material that also emits alpha and gamma radiation. Ouside the body it's not too serious but inside the body it caused cancer and getetic birth defects in offspring. The symptoms of DU poisoning vary depending on what internal organ is affected. It can never be cured and DU will last in the environment for eternity. It is a waste material of the Nuke industry and in the battlefield it becomes aerosolized and thus its deadly dust particles become a permanent part of the world's environment. It cannot be cleaned from the environment--ever! Its use is unconsiousable and a crime against all humanity. The U.S. is currently producing it by the railcar load everyday and shipping throughout the world.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUIUQp3LsQ&feature=related

Are we Killing ourselves with DU? Take a look at this map and this is before Iraq and Afghanistan, this is just from the Bosnia, Serbia bombing and the first Gulf war.

http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/nato-bombings%E2%80%99-aftermath-takes-toll-on-serbia/

Depleted Uranium Fall out in Middle East. This is an older map so it has expanded because of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. It does send a message of how far the Radiation can go however.

NATO bombings’ aftermath takes toll on Serbia
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-07-02/NATO_bombings__aftermath_takes_toll_on_Serbia.html?fullstory 
There's a ticking time bomb in Serbia, where doctors have reported a sharp increase in cancer deaths among locals and claim this could be linked to NATO's use of depleted uranium shells during the 1999 bombings.

“Over the last 10 years, I have seen many two-headed calves, six or eight-legged lambs and other anomalies among animals. Mutation is a normal thing, but when there are so many cases – it’s a symptom. Our nature is sick. And certainly – it has to do with depleted uranium usage,” says Miodrag Milkovic, a veterinarian.
 
Serbia is a beautiful country, but it appears to be dangerous to live in. After NATO used depleted uranium munitions there during the 1999 bombing campaign, military experts from Belgrade have registered an increased radiation level and claim the area is highly contaminated.

The Radojkovic family believe they are the victims of the Alliance’s military operation called ‘Merciful Angel’.

The family’s youngest son Nikola was just five years old when an air strike hit his family village.

“I remember nine bombs dropped on that day – they targeted a TV tower just a kilometer away. I was playing in the backyard at that time. The first strike made me fall over. After the second strike I held on to a tractor. A shock wave raised both me and the vehicle,” recalls Nikola Radojkovic, a victim of fallout from depleted uranium missiles.

The family thought that was the end, but the real battle was yet to come – the battle to save the boy's life.

Eight years after the bombing, Nikola felt he had something like a fish bone stuck in his throat. Surgeons extracted two tiny pieces of shrapnel. Later, a tumor appeared there which continues to grow. Doctors believe the two things are related.

”We had three operations here in Serbia, three more in Germany – it cost 40,000 euros. Almost every family here helped us. Now the doctors say we have to do two more operations to stop the tumor’s growth, and we need 20,000 euros more,” says Dragon Radojkovic, Nikola’s father.

In 2000, NATO disclosed that depleted uranium weapons were used during its mission to bring peace to Kosovo. The Pentagon couldn’t hide cancer deaths among NATO soldiers who were serving in the region.

Doctor Nebojsha Srbljak was among the first to raise the alarm. In 2001 he registered an unprecedented increase in cancer patients.

”There is no other place in the modern world where so many people and so many young people – aged between 30 and 40 – die from cancer. Blood and lung cancer are most widespread,” says Dr. Srbljak, Head of the Merciful Angel NGO.

In an animal hospital in the south of Serbia, one of the most-bombed regions, there is evidence of something going wrong. Ten years after NATO bombed the former Yugoslavia, the consequences are felt almost everywhere in Serbia. And as it takes billions of years for uranium to decay, the shadow of the ghost of the merciful angel will hang over the region virtually forever.

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja
Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects
Martin Chulov in Falluja
guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009

 Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants, compared to a year ago, and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.
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The extraordinary rise in birth defects has crystallised over recent months as specialists working in Falluja's over-stretched health system have started compiling detailed clinical records of all babies born.

Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects – which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumours, and others with nervous system problems - are unprecedented and at present unexplainable.

A group of Iraqi and British officials, including the former Iraqi minister for women's affairs, Dr Nawal Majeed a-Sammarai, and the British doctors David Halpin and Chris Burns-Cox, have petitioned the UN general assembly to ask that an independent committee fully investigate the defects and help clean up toxic materials left over decades of war – including the six years since Saddam Hussein was ousted.

"We are seeing a very significant increase in central nervous system anomalies," said Falluja general hospital's director and senior specialist, Dr Ayman Qais. "Before 2003 [the start of the war] I was seeing sporadic numbers of deformities in babies. Now the frequency of deformities has increased dramatically."

The rise in frequency is stark – from two admissions a fortnight a year ago to two a day now. "Most are in the head and spinal cord, but there are also many deficiencies in lower limbs," he said. "There is also a very marked increase in the number of cases of less than two years [old] with brain tumours. This is now a focus area of multiple tumours." (Go to link for remainder of story).

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