Depleted Uranium Rounds: Afganistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

as long as there over there

Our troops and civilians of the region within a 10,000 mile radius may beg to differ.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

1 million years of efficiency.

After a tank, or any other target is destroyed, SOP is to clear the area. Our troops get it before anyone else. The target has the benefit of being dead already.

Any international members have any thoughts about these crimes against humanity? I'm sure there will be.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

The answers are in the videos you scrolled past.



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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I think you don't have enough information to discuss this topic.

I think you still have time to review the data before many see your comments.

I think I was just like you before looking into it.

I think you are a good person living in a bubble.




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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Ok...

1 million years of efficiency.

What does that mean?

MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321787/

Updated: 7:43 p.m. PT Aug 12, 2006

NEW YORK - It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills —morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.

Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done.

Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil.
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There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him terrifyingly sick.

In the sprawling bureaucracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs, he has many caretakers. An internist, a neurologist, a pain-management specialist, a psychologist, an orthopedic surgeon and a dermatologist. He cannot function without his stupefying arsenal of medications, but they exact a high price.

"I'm just a zombie walking around," he says.

Billions of pounds of suspect metal
Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it — thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead.

A shell coated with depleted uranium pierces a tank like a hot knife through butter, exploding on impact into a charring inferno. As tank armor, it repels artillery assaults. It also leaves behind a fine radioactive dust with a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

Depleted uranium is the garbage left from producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and energy plants. It is 60 percent as radioactive as natural uranium. The U.S. has an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of it, sitting in hazardous waste storage sites across the country. Meaning it is plentiful and cheap as well as highly effective.

Reed says he unknowingly breathed DU dust while living with his unit in Samawah, Iraq. He was med-evaced out in July 2003, nearly unable to walk because of lightning-strike pains from herniated discs in his spine. Then began a strange series of symptoms he'd never experienced in his previously healthy life.

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Is depleted uranium making U.S. soldiers sick?

‘We all felt sick’
At Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C, he ran into a buddy from his unit. And another, and another, and in the tedium of hospital life between doctor visits and the dispensing of meds, they began to talk.

"We all had migraines. We all felt sick," Reed says. "The doctors said, 'It's all in your head.' "

Then the medic from their unit showed up. He too, was suffering. That made eight sick soldiers from the 442nd Military Police, an Army National Guard unit made up of mostly cops and correctional officers from the New York area.

But the medic knew something the others didn't.

Dutch marines had taken over the abandoned train depot dubbed Camp Smitty, which was surrounded by tank skeletons, unexploded ordnance and shell casings. They'd brought radiation-detection devices. The readings were so hot, the Dutch set up camp in the middle of the desert rather than live in the station ruins.

"We got on the Internet," Reed said, "and we started researching depleted uranium."

Then they contacted The New York Daily News, which paid for sophisticated urine tests available only overseas.

Then they hired a lawyer.

Tests come up positive, but ...
Reed, Gerard Matthew, Raymond Ramos, Hector Vega, Augustin Matos, Anthony Yonnone, Jerry Ojeda and Anthony Phillip all have depleted uranium in their urine, according to tests done in December 2003, while they bounced for months between Walter Reed and New Jersey's Fort Dix medical center, seeking relief that never came.

The analyses were done in Germany, by a Frankfurt professor who developed a depleted uranium test with Randall Parrish, a professor of isotope geology at the University of Leicester in Britain.

The veterans, using their positive results as evidence, have sued the U.S. Army, claiming officials knew the hazards of depleted uranium, but concealed the risks.

The Department of Defense says depleted uranium is powerful and safe, and not that worrisome.

Four of the highest-registering samples from Frankfurt were sent to the VA. Those results were negative, Reed said. "Their test just isn't as sophisticated," he said. "And when we first asked to be tested, they told us there wasn't one. They've lied to us all along."

The VA's testing methodology is safe and accurate, the agency says. More than 2,100 soldiers from the current war have asked to be tested; only 8 had DU in their urine, the VA said.

Why the scare in the media over dirty bombs here in the US when we are doing the equivilant of hundreds of Hiroshimas in Iraq?

War is hell, but why the war?

Answer:

- So we could open an gas pipeline from the caspian sea through afghanistan.
- So we could steal trillions the first 14 months of the occupation in Iraq.

Our citizens have paid 100 Billion Dollars for 5 years running so our corporations like Bush's oil and Chaney's weapons company can get richer. Just like gov research is paid by us and sold to the highest bidder.

There is plenty of money for health care but there is way to much money to be made in Iraq for the few at the top of the pyramid.

We are pawns in the game of Capitalism.

Wasn't always like this.



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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I ask the world for US citizens forgiveness. I doubt we will get, or deserve it. But for the record, Some American's actually care about all peoples of the world. We are simply powerless because of years of conditioning and oppression.

Outlined below, the effects of American media can clearly be used as proof of our "innocence."(<---The nice word.)

God help us all.


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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

You did all the work for me...


Kudos




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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I think I was just like you before looking into it.

I think you are a good person living in a bubble.