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23 Aug 2010 22:30 AEST
From: United States
Senior Scientist, PSR
DU munitions were first used the 1991 Gulf War. US military forces suffered less than 1,000 total casualties in the war; yet 250,000 of the 540,000 troops that fought in the war are now sick and on disability. These are not old men, their average age is in the 30s. Why have 40% of these vets become seriously ill? Surely a large percentage of them are sick from their exposure to DU. This story is not reported in the media; it would hurt recruitment. DU munitions remain in full production.
19 Aug 2010 0:44 AEST
From: US
18 Aug 2010 18:36 AEST
From: gosford
18 Aug 2010 10:51 AEST
From: California
Depleted Uranium - a weapon of Mass Destruction
Shame on America, England, and Israel for using these weapons on civilians. Every American needs to see this report as this it would not be shown on our propaganda television stations. Look for these types of deformities to show up in the children of the Marines who were in Fallujah. Not only was depleted uranium used quite liberally so was White Phosporus. Americans must remove their blindfolds and take responsibility for these war crimes. There is not excuse for these crimes against humanity!
18 Aug 2010 3:28 AEST
From: America
17 Aug 2010 21:24 AEST
From: perth
if only these people could be voted out of office
It's staggering that a human being, knowing what they must know about how much they need love and family in their own lives, can make such a devastating choice, to allow such things to be done to another country. How can the average person understand this type of thinking, so we can counteract it? I saw this on Dateline, and it was just frightening to see the parent's faces. They were beyond anger, just in despair. We have to think of ways to get our planet back, and act on them.
17 Aug 2010 15:09 AEST
From: Levin, New Zealand
Depleted Uranium for Depleted Humanity
I strongly oppose all nuclear weapons. My father died at 57 years in 1968. He looked 80. He had a severe overdose of radioactivity when his radioactive paint mixing operation seems to have struck a problem. His special badge showed it after being processed for the week. Without gieger counters, he supervised women who painted early 1940's aircraft dials that glowed radioactively for undetected night flights. He diced with death. The deformed babies are no surprise. See my www.nfwn.webs.com
17 Aug 2010 1:21 AEST
From: United States
Senior Scientist, PSR
for more on DU, see interview with Major Doug Rokke at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VkpR-wka8 Major Rokke was the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project director from 1994 - 1995. He developed the congressionally mandated education and training materials for DU incidents. (complete bio at http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/doug_rokke_bio.htm ) Also see http://www.du-deceptions.com/about.html for information about nuclear war see www.nucleardarkness.org
17 Aug 2010 0:31 AEST
From: Illinois
Mother
The people responsible are war criminals and they need to pay for their crimes. We have laws against war crimes. I thought that we went to Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction. Why did we use WMD against these innocents? Why aren't these issues addressed, swiftly? Has the whole world gone mad??
16 Aug 2010 14:44 AEST
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