Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens

[Jcrowley]

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens

By Doug Rokke

The delivery of at least one hundred GBU-28 "bunker buster" bombs containing depleted-uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination, with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the Middle East. Israeli tank gunners are also using depleted-uranium tank rounds, as photographs verify.

Today, US, British, and now Israeli military personnel are using illegal uranium munitions—America and the United Kingdom's own "dirty bombs"—while US Army, US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense (DOD), and UK Ministry of Defence officials deny that there are any adverse health or environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, or use of uranium munitions, so that they may avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material—depleted uranium (DU).

The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable and a crime against humanity. Consequently, the citizens of the world and all governments must force the cessation of uranium weapons use. I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination.

American and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with their own regulations, orders, and directives that require DOD officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to all exposed individuals ("Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties," DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93; "Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU)," US Army Medical Command, 4/29/04; Section 2-5 of US Army Regulation 700-48).

More:
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=662

[leftchick]

1. more war crimes

:(

[undeterred]

2. this is going to hurt so many people

and they won't be able to hide from it

[Monkeyman]

3. Deny deny deny Agent Orange Remember

[Rex]

4. They deny science and the facts too easily.

Fools.

[nam78_two]

5. K&R/nt

[mom cat]

6. I just e-mailed them and asked them to turn this article into a

petition. It is excellent.

[PoiBoy]

7. Beyond Treason

http://www.beyondtreason.com/

Dr. Doug Rokke, as the former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project definitely knows what he's talking about...

for more information read this review:
http://www.beyondtreason.com/tom_cahill.htm

<snip>
I made the mistake of watching “Beyond Treason” early one recent morning. As a military veteran, a father and a grandfather, I was so appalled by the horrors depicted that I was deeply depressed the rest of the day and went to bed with a sense of dread and hopelessness. But as an activist for more than four decades, I’ve had to become resilient. And having been already acquainted with much of the information presented in the film, I awoke the
next morning in a fury of righteous indignation. Since 1968, I have felt thoroughly betrayed by the US government. Now I’m so enraged, I feel like an enemy alien in my own country. I want to help bring down the US government even if it’s on my own head. And, indeed, the collapse probably will do in many of us, one way or another.
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...irradiating the Iraqi population is a war crime beyond comprehension... and these BushCo war criminals are deliberately exposing our troops to the dangers of Depleted Uranium..

there should be a special place in hell for these people...

[Gregorian]

8. Everyone on the planet is affected by this. A billion years!

The half life of this stuff is over a billion years. Everyone on the entire planet should be enraged and up in arms over this.

[ThomCat]

9. I don't care how often they say it's harmless

the world needs to hold governments responsible for all the effects of depleted uranium. It's a crime against humanity, and it's going to keep poisoning land, water, animals and people for generations to come.
x(

[NobleCynic]

10. Even if the science is out on depleted uranium...

...which is increasingly becoming a rather big if... Using it is such a propaganda blunder that it cannot be tolerated. What exactly about these weapons does not scream out, "Easily portrayed as equal to genocide." or "Easily portrayed as murderous as anything the nazis ever tried."

Even if we accept the military's position that it has no long term effects, the propaganda value of these weapons is so negative I don't understand how they ever got past the planning stage.

[rman]

11. how they got past the planning stage:

Money.
They have large stockpiles of DU just sitting there. Because it is even heavier than lead, it makes for an excellent penetrator. Such a waste not to use it.
You probably already knew that, point is: to big corporations (that staff the executive branch of government) the bottom line is the only thing that counts - literally.

[Jcrowley]

12. The DOE

nurtured this corporate criminality every step of the way.

[rman]

16. Small surprise,

given the DOE's involvement in nuclear technology (both energy and weaponized) and secret government operations; Manhattan Project - and whatever else they are or have been involved in.

[malaise]

13. This time they must pay

To the Hague.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. He's being interviewed right now on Infowars.com nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. btw.. if you miss this interview, the program is replayed on stream at

the site at 3PM ET. www.inforwars.com

[Karenina]

17. It's genocide.

K&R