"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger
San Francisco Bay View has a very good (and frightening) article on Depleted Uranium by Leuren Moret. One of the really horrific evils of the 2 wars in Iraq has been the use of Depleted Uranium (DU). DU is a very effective killing device - it kills enemey soldiers, it kills civilians in the area, and it kills the troops who use it or travel thru an area where DU has been used. DU seems more and more likely to be the source of Gulf War Syndrome. There's more....
Go check out the
article on Depleted Uranium by Leuren Moret. Here's some quotes:
Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
Hummm, doesn't really seem like a good way to win the hearts and minds of the local populace. How are the people of Iraq gonna feel about Uncle Sam when they start dropping dead from cancer? Oh, that's right, they'll be dead and won't feel a thing - but their relatives might be upset!
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.
It's not just the locals that are being contaminated. There are currently over 2000 official US deaths in the Iraq War; who knows how many more official deaths there will be before we pull or are run out. But it seems certain that many thousands more Americans will die as a result of serving in BushCo's (very) dirty little war.
I found this article via BuzzFlash - it was followed another article that highlights the extent of this evil all the more: Vietnam Veterans on Civilian Casualties in Iraq.
What a mess BushCo is creating on our little blue ball!