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

 

You have a link other then Al Jazeera? I didn't think there were significant quantities of uranium in the gulf war.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html

No one has warned the vendor in the faded, threadbare black gown to keep the toxic and radioactive dust off her produce. The children haven't been told not to play with the radioactive debris. They gather around as a Geiger counter carried by a visiting reporter starts singing when it nears a DU bullet fragment no bigger than a pencil eraser. It registers nearly 1,000 times normal background radiation levels on the digital readout.

 

Yes that is so true and i don't know wether it is the DU depleated uranium used in shell cassings for large caliber guns i think or the nasty toxic cocktail the guys over there in the first gulf war got from the burning oil, the burning chemical weapons which we burned (have you ever tried to keep a 20 year old demolitions expert from blowing up anything he can find when he is told the can by the higher ups?) but a lot of those guys are seriously fucked.

My Father is now listed as 150% disabled. How more fucked can a person get? Some days he can't move at all others he has a weak side. He is covered in what looks to be a huge scabby rash. His knees go out, he blacks out, he has seizures, and his imune system is failing him.

My father the brave young airborn soldier who has nightmares about the things he has done in the field for this country left the gulf having SLOWED DOWN an enemy we empowered and armed. Left that big sand box a slowly, painfully dying man.

And no one really seems to want to talk about it or even aknowledge it exist outside of military circles.

 

That is a damn shame. A man goes to fight for his country and is treated like shit. How can it be any more obvious that our government doesn't give two shits about the common man. They are up there looking out for their bank accounts and their corporate buddies. They don't consider us equals, they consider us tools for their agenda.


I feel terrible about your father. You can look back on threads on this very site where we have had conversations about DU. There are some of us that are aware of the problem and we try to bring it to light for others as well.

 

To be honest, I have not met one person who had served in the Gulf War, and I've met many, that doesn't have some sort of problem with illness. For some it is post traumatic stress disorder, for others it is inexplicable pain and nausea which possibly has a great deal to do with the uranium being discussed here.