For many months, we have been trying to blow a whistle (without a whistle) about our military's depositing of depleted uranium all over Iraq. Of course, no one hears. So we'll just fuss about the negligence of others in ignoring the damage that has been done and is ongoing. As with the barbaric sanctions we imposed on that weak and starving population, the story is suppressed, ignored, glossed over, and rationalized.
If news people have a responsibility to report the news, then where were they for the decade of the sanctions, and are they asleep now that the DU is a screaming disaster? As we wrote previously, more than 1,000 tons of DU in the form of bombs and tipped shells were used in Iraq in 2003.
Why is there no national discourse about eminent scientist Leuren Moret's assertion that DU is the definitive cause of the "Gulf War Syndrome?" Uranium munitions is the reason that thousands of our military personnel have suffered and died. That is the terrible truth.
Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist of the Office of the deputy in the Department of Veteran Affairs, reports the number of Gulf War veterans now on medical disability, since 1991, is 518,739. Out of the 580,400 who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability, 56% of those who served. Those numbers are way beyond the figures from other wars.
Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist who worked at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, commented that the new and rapid malignancies of soldiers from the 2003 Iraq War are a "spectacular matter of concern."
Who in the media is concerned enough to tell the people?
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