This chilling article should be front-page news across the nation. I'm quoting liberally from it here, but truly, you should read the article for yourself. The article speaks volumes about the neocon's actual support for the troops. Of course, so does Henry Kissinger's little known quote which paraphrases the bottom line for the neocon war machine:
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"
So, now our suspicions about how the neocon warmongers actually view the troops is confirmed: to them, our troops are cannon fodder, and that is one reason they have gone to such lengths to destroy the educational system in the inner cities, so that poor youths from these areas have little choice except a life of crime or a life in the Armed Forces. Now we read about this absolutely horrific story, worse than our denial of benefits to victims of Agent Orange or Gulf War syndrome. Our newly returned troops from Iraq have been poisoned, radioactively poisoned, which means they can actually spread this condition to members of their own families.
The sacrifices the brave people in the National Guard are making just to support the Iraq war are now burdened by an insidious poisoning, exposure to Depleted Uranium(DU).
In one unit under study, 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.
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."
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.
The poison that is DU disrupts DNA. It creates massive medical problems in its wake. Its sinister use coincides with areas whose main natural resource is oil. Is it too much to guess that these 3rd world populations are being intentionally decimated for that reason, being poisoned at the cellular level by something for which there is no cure? It wouldn't be the first time we've poisoned a part of the world, especially radiologically.
The first Gulf War resulted in the HIGHEST CASUALTY RATIOS ever, and that includes World Wars I and II. 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. Include the wounded, and you have a casualty rate of over 60% for the first Gulf War. 60% CASUALTY RATE! Is that a successful operation?
"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."
Yeah, "democracy is on the march" all right.
Sons of bitches.