Fw: Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets

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Subject: Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets


   Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets 

      by Leuren Moret

      SF Bay View 

  A death sentence here and abroad


    "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,"; Part II: 
"Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively 
Linked," 

    August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: "Depleted Uranium: The 
Trojan Horse of Nuclear War," 

    August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin Depleted Uranium 
Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death," 

    World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 
2004 

    International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge 
Niloufer Baghwat 

    "Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War" by Akira Tashiro, 
foreword by Leuren Moret 

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    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 at yahoo.com. 

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