January 16, 2006
There are two essays/reports by Leuren Moret on Depleted Uranium in
this post. Both are as important reading as anything I have come
across. The use of, and continued use of depleted uranium
weapons—bombs, missiles and bullets—is nuclear war in no uncertain of
terms. And those within our government and Department of War know this,
also in no uncertain of terms. In 1964 this government and War Hawks
knew what Agent Orange usage in Vietnam would do to human beings—poison
and kill them—not to mention salting the earth. They also are well
aware of what they are doing with using Depleted Uranium Weapons. Lies,
deceptions and constant cover-up are the order of the day by the White
House, Congress, the Courts, the Veterans Administration, the
Department of War and the Pentagon on just how dangerous and harmful
depleted uranium is.
In the meantime the unwillingness of the
so-called leadership of this nation to even properly test those that
have been to Iraq and Afghanistan continues. And at the very same time,
James Mueller, National Commander-In-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars announces that veterans, in order to help Bush & Co. with the
nation economic disaster he/they created with their War of Aggression
in Iraq, wants veterans to give up what little they have fought for all
these years. When you consider the toll depleted uranium alone is going
to take, Mueller’s statement is all the more absurd and a betrayal of
all veterans. -- Jack ...............................................................
"Terrell
E. Arnold, who has been responsible for training our most senior and
most promising military officers as chairman of the Department of
International Studies at the U.S. National War College in Washington,
reports that Coalition dead and wounded may actually be twice what the
US government admits and that, including the effects of our use of
depleted uranium and other toxic weapons, "a long-term casualty rate
for American forces of 40-50 percent appears realistic."" Leuren Moret
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
By: Leuren Moret http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml
"Military
men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the
United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam"
Vietnam
was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and
countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most
devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged
four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent
Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been
permanently contaminated with radiation.
And
what about our soldiers? 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.
Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines
and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers
and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause
of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of
the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served
in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara
Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Support
Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals,
pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the
issue.
This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the
cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential
administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian
Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the
battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a
death sentence and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the
biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the
DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore
Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project,
interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war
as "spectacular … and a matter of concern."
This evidence shows
that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems -
radiation, chemical and particulate – the particulate effect from
nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure
and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it
explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to
define.
In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if
the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing
people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect
weapon for killing lots of people."
Soldiers developing
malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple
cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by
doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU
in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using
DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this
phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been
unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU
exposure.
Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week
Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in
Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on
permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets
means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now
have medical problems.
The number of disabled vets reported up
to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the
Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he
believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.
They brought it home
Not
only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they
brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated
their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their
20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed
endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health
problems.
In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in
Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67
percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects.
They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune
system and blood diseases. In some veterans’ families now, the only
normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before
the war.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.
How did they hide it?
Before
a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The
blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document
from the Manhattan Project. Harvard President and physicist James B.
Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the
Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry.
Kerry’s father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was
a CIA agent.
Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee,
which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive
trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was
known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from
land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust
which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter
or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or
cause illness very quickly.
They also recommended it as a
permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy
populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with
the radioactive dust.
The first DU weapons system was developed
for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel
in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.
The
Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by
the U.S. to 29 countries.
Military research report summaries
detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds,
bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today
42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and
deployment. Women living around these facilities have reported
increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in
children and cancers and other diseases in adults.
Thousands of
tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and
gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the
fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The
military denies that DU is the cause.
The medical profession has
been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects
from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric
testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern
California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors,
months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers
returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only. Medical
professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers
were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or
their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.
Reporters
have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated
soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who
are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.
Dr.
Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians
for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors
since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr.
Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR,
informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her
to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State
University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr.
Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing
overseas … nothing political."
Dr. Gould also contacted and
discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to
speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent
of PSR, several months later. When that didn’t work, he contacted Dr.
Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to
cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his
own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians
suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in
southern Iraq.
Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing
member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being
invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman
had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her
position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last
job had been with the CIA.
How was the truth about DU hidden
from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his
tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N.,
executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that
95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military
by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from
each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new
troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning
it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."
The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret
A
new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins
Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America’s
Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War
Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire,"
details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry
Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just
happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil
crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President
Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the
oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and
Kurds in 1912.
The book details the creation of the neo-cons by
their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a
"war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for
years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most
influential men in the United States.
Both are public relations
men for the Israeli lobby’s neo-conservative network, with strong ties
to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the
Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal
wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It
would be easy to say that we are recycling
World Wars I and II, with the same faces.
When
I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could
have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code
and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the
Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most
of the world’s oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the
handprints of Henry Kissinger."
In Zbignew Brzezinski’s book
"The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic
Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions
strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds
precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation
from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.
A
Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU
is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used
more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki
bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation
released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing! No wonder our
soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia
and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam
when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are
just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."
Unfortunately,
more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And
unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world
and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the
1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and
Hawaii.
In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in
a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by
2020. What else do they know that they aren’t telling us? I know that
depleted uranium is a death sentence … for all of us. We will all die
in silent ways.
To learn more
Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:
American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity," http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html
Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html
Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care: Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to Vets", http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html
Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World", http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html
August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War," http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm
August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death," http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm
World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2004: http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm
International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm
"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War" by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret, http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html ………………………………………….
Depleted Uranium:The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War Leuren Moret / World Affairs – The Journal of International Issues 1Jul2004
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The
use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all
international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth
including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so
with full knowledge of its destructive potential. (Leuren Moret)
Since
1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium
weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions and
agreements, as well as under the US military law. The continued use of
this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast
regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of
the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international
issue. The deeper purpose is revealed by comparing regions now
contaminated with depleted uranium — from Egypt, the Middle East,
Central Asia and the northern half of India — to the US geostrategic
imperatives described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book The Grand Chessboard.
The Full Report Is Here: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm
Leuren
Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation
issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and
Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on
the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City
of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com. ……………………………………
Also See:
Iraq: Depleted Uranium aka Baghdad Boils?! http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/12/iraq-depleted-uranium-aka-baghdad.htmlspan>
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