I was inspired to look for daily polls to take and share on Tom Delay and found this intriguing editorial in the Abilene Reporter:Depleted uranium poses big health risk
September 30, 2005
''God is on our side.'' Does that mean he approves of what we are doing? Does that mean he approves of our use of depleted uranium against men women and children in Iraq? Does he approve of our depleted uranium destroying the health of our own military? Depleted uranium (DU) is the left-over portion of native uranium after the Uranium 235 is removed. It is the densest and hardest of all metals. Made into shells, it pierces tank armor, invades the interior, and bounces around inside, and burns into a radio-active dust. This dust is carried by winds into all of Iraq, affecting its civilians and our military. It becomes a weapon of ma ss destruction.
DU was used in Dessert Storm. 159,238 of these veterans, out of 696,778 total troops, have been given a service-connected disability known as ''Gulf War syndrome.'' (It is considered) a''baffling'' disease to VA doctors. DU is being extensively used in Iraq. The syndrome is reoccurring.
Birth defects in Iraq have surged from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 presently. Defects include children born with no brains, no sexual organs, no spines, and without eyes. Cancer, including child leukemia, has ballooned.
Dr. Doug Rokke, an Army doctor assigned to DU cleanup operations in Iraq says, ''DU is the stuff of nightmares.'' His own disability includes airway disease, neurological damage, cataracts, and kidney problems.
Dr. Rokke continues, ''This whole thing is a crime against God and inhumanity.''
Allen Glenn <Thank you, Glen for finding the WMD' BUSH can't seem to find>
Abilene