"Depleted uranium turns Bush's lies into high-tech horror "

[donsu]

http://commonwonders.com/


Spreading Cancer
Depleted uranium turns Bush's lies into high-tech horror


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The occupation of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the entire war (to promote) terror . . . please, please, can these no longer be trotted out in consequence-free abstraction, but as the high-tech malevolence they are, actively continuing the incalculable devastation of countries and their populations?

The bodies keep piling up, the toxic horrors spread. Hasn’t anyone in this place ever heard of depleted uranium? Is the health crisis in Iraq and, indeed, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, not to mention Kosovo and among returning vets for the last four American wars, somehow irrelevant to “the course” we’re asked to stay?

“Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with two cancers — one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney — he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. . . . My wife has nine members of her family with cancer.”

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“Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning,” he went on. “They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most. However, cancer of the lymph system, which can develop anywhere on the body and has rarely been seen before the age of 12, is now also common.”

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And we make bombs and bullets out of it — it’s the ultimate penetrating weapon. We dropped at least 300 tons of it on Iraq during Gulf War I (the first time it was used in combat) and created Gulf War Syndrome. This time around, the estimated DU use on defenseless Iraq is 1,700 tons, far more of it in major population centers. Remember shock and awe? We were pounding Baghdad, in those triumphant early days, with low-grade nuclear weapons, raining down cancer, neurological disorders, birth defects and much, much more on the people we claimed to be liberating. We weren’t spreading democracy, we were altering the human genome.

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all us americans are criminals for allowing the neo con bushmilhousegang to use "high-tech malevolence" for financial gain and power.

and the article didn't go into birth defects of horrifying perportions

whose to stop them?
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[partylessinOhio]

1. These criminals did not do this in my name...

that is all I can think to say.

We will all share the shame, the blame and the horror of DU even though we are innocent of making the decision to use it against innocent people.

[jwirr]

3. You are right. Many of us who are German Americans share the

feeling of shame and guilt regarding the death camps in WWII. At least for those of us who are able to grasp the implications of genocide and murder implicit in this use of WMD by the American government.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. Its unbelievable the self-righteous, hideous, murderous

attitude of this government... We use WMDs on a a country of innocent people... in which the justification of doing it was absolutely BS.

But somehow, DU and white phosphorous is not viewd by Americans as WMDs,WHEN THEY USE IT !

[jwirr]

4. And we walk away when it is over as if we are the only victims.

Look at the Agent Orange in Vietnam. Has anyone ever asked how many of the Vietnamese were effected like our soldiers were. I doubt it.

[partylessinOhio]

6. And some go to Graceland, then fly into my state where they are not

wanted at our expense for a campaign stunt.

[Independent_Liberal]

5. High crimes, treason, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Definitely.