Whistles ought to be blowing and alarms sounding because the damage has been going on since the first Gulf War. Our military uses depleted uranium in bombs and shells because DU's density allows it to penetrate armor. The problem is that it strickens and sickens both the target and the user. Iraq is a wide depository of DU, with more than a thousand tons of the internationally banned hazard used in the last six years.
IT'S A SCREAMING DISASTER.
Why is there no discourse about eminent scientist Leuren Moret's assertion that, "Depleted uranium is the definitive cause of the Gulf War Syndrome?"
Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist of the Office of Veterans' Affairs, reports the number of Gulf War veterans now on medical disability, since 1991, is 518,739. Out of the 580,000 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent disability, 56% of those who served. Those numbers are far beyond the figures from other wars.Does anyone care? Is depleted uranium in the same compartment of the American mind as sodium fluoride, mercury, cell phone radiation, aluminum, and obesity? Yawn.
It's all so simple.
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Overheard at Slippery Slope Saloon
"The Myanmar government refuses to let U.N. workers in to help victims of
the cyclone. Pardon me but that reminds me of the Bush administration's refusal to allow thousands of Cuban doctors into Louisiana to aid victims of Katrina. Let's have another round of drinks."
Thoughts While Out To Lunch
Any day now Ann Coulter will traipse back to Iraq and write about how swell things are going. That's the way it is with the cigarette and chardonay gal.Help Wanted
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