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The secret scandal of depleted uranium

The Betrayal » The Biggest Con: Democrats & Republicans Work Together To Destroy America
oilforimmigration 6 Sept 09
Depleted uranium weapons were first given by the US to Israel for use under US supervision in the 1973 Sinai war against the Arabs. Since then the US has tested, manufactured, and sold depleted uranium weapons systems to 29 countries.

An international taboo prevented their use until 1991, when the US broke the taboo and used them for the first time, on the battlefields of Iraq and Kuwait. Depleted uranium (DU) is a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) that was used under the direction of George H. W. Bush and then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in the 1st Gulf War in 1991. Democrat Bill Clinton used it in the Balkans (and in Iraq, using the no-fly zones as cover) and it continues to be used today in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In Irving Wesley’s “Depleted Uranium for Dummies,” he tells us that more than 400 tons were used in 1991; that rose to at least 2,000 tons in the Balkans, more than 1,000 tons used in Afghanistan and over 3,000 tons used so far in the current liberation of Iraq by George W. Bush.

The explosion of DU munitions on the battlefield creates microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble uranium oxide particles that remain suspended in the air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere

DU is a death sentence not only for our soldiers and their families but also for all the people whose land is forever contaminated — with DU attacking the master code of DNA.

Eleven thousand troops have died and over 500,000 are on disability from the 1st Gulf War — 56 percent of those having served now have serious health problems.

The Betrayal » The Biggest Con: Democrats & Republicans Work Together To Destroy America, Part 3 of 3

September 8, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, MIDDLE EAST | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radioactive, uranium