Depleted Uranium is Slowly Killing American Troops

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2E2DF9B-1E0C-43F4-BBF6-074C1367E27C.htm


Sick soldiers

Only 467 US soldiers were officially wounded during the 1990-91 Gulf war.

But according to Terry Jemison at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), of the more than 592,560 discharged personnel who served there, at least 179,310 - one third - are receiving disability compensation and over 24,760 cases were pending by in September 2004.

"Use of DU weaponry violates the grave breach provisions of the Geneva Conventions"
--Karen Parker,human rights lawyer

 

Most of them are poor people so it doesn't really matter.

Besides it's nothing new. Agent orange.. ever heard of that?

 

So technically, we lost more men compared to Iraq in that war. They lost something like 100,000.

And don't forget there are plenty of uranium shells all over iraq that the u.s never bothered to clean up. So don't be serprised if in a few years we'll be having another 100,000 dead cuz people never learned from gulf war 1 and vietnam.

 

More, dude. They're still using that stuff in huge quantities.