depleted uranium causing more casualties in iraq, america

by **PeterofLoneTree** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:21 am

The National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc. at <a href="http://www.ngwrc.org/">www.ngwrc.org/</a> has these articles on veterans' affairs for those who might be interested: "Senator Murray Introduces New Bill to Help More Veterans with Multiple Sclerosis" <a href="http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2084">www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?P...le&ID=2084</a> "VA Announces Dallas Center for Gulf War Illnesses" <a href="http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2082">www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?P...le&ID=2082</a> "Researchers: Alcohol misuse, divorce rates higher among returning troops" <a href="http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2080">www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?P...le&ID=2080</a> "Incalculable pain" "A group of seven House Democrats wrote President Bush this week, accusing the Pentagon of underreporting casualties in Iraq. It's a shocking charge. The letter writers argue that Pentagon casualty reports show only a sliver of the injuries, mostly physical ones from bombs or bullets. But war doesn't work like that, the Democrats declare, adding that the reports skip a horrible panoply of accidents, illness, disease and mental trauma." <a href="http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2081">www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?P...le&ID=2081</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:09 pm

The GOP/CIA/Pentagon and their nukes have been killing Americans here at home for decades. Reaganomics poverty after Cold War nuke fallout did to the USA what they are now doing to Iraq. *(This website, <a href="http://www.radiation.org/">www.radiation.org/</a> , which asks people to send in baby teeth for a citizen's nuclear background database has an article showing rising infant mortality rates linked to increased background radiation from nuclear testing after WWII. Very disturbing. This doesn't even take into account the jet fuel called perchlorate in much of our drinking water, another legacy of the Cold War. <a href="http://www.ewg.org/reports/rocketscience/chap1.html">www.ewg.org/reports/rocke...chap1.html</a> *(Hard to keep up with the background of toxins our government has bestowed us all with.)* <a href="http://www.radiation.org/reading/newborn/newborn_article.html">www.radiation.org/reading...ticle.html</a> >>> U.S.A. Newborn Deterioration in the Nuclear Age, 1945-1996 By J.M. Gould, E.J. Sternglass, J.J. Mangano The Radiation and Public Health Project PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE EFFECTS OF LOW DOSE IONIZING RADIATION IN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, IN MEDICINE, INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE WORKPLACE 19 - 21 MARCH 1998 *(A chart shows declining infant mortality rates bulging back up when nuclear bomb testing began.)* <a href="http://www.radiation.org/images/newborn/figure1.gif">www.radiation.org/images/...igure1.gif</a> *(One of the charts shows a 14 year decline in low birth-weight babies flattening out and going back up starting in 1980.)* <a href="http://www.radiation.org/images/newborn/figure4.gif">www.radiation.org/images/...igure4.gif</a> *(I suspect this is also the result of increasing poverty due to Reaganomics and his IranContra CIA crack cocaine epidemic in American cities. This is corroborated by a 2003 University of Pennsylvania study ranking the US 27th in social progress next to other countries with Europe doing well and Africa in dire straits. The UPenn study also shows American progress ending in 1980!)* <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/uop-ur2071703.php">www.eurekalert.org/pub_re...071703.php</a> >>> U.S. ranks 27th in world social progress; Africa in dire straits FRANKFURT -- Denmark and Sweden lead the world in social progress, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and the United States ranks 27th among 163 nations, according to the latest Index of Social Progress. In the U.S., Estes, who has researched world social development for 30 years, found the pace of social development to be "on hold" since 1980, putting the U.S. on the same level as Poland and Slovenia in the current "report card." "Chronic poverty is the greatest threat to social progress in the United States," Estes said. "More than 33 million Americans -- almost 12 million of them children -- are poor." "Contrary to public perception," Estes said, "the majority of poor in the United States are members of established family households who work full-time and are white. No other economically advanced country tolerates such a level of poverty." Other challenges impeding American social progress include slow economic growth, increasing unemployment, insecure access for many people to adequate health care and deteriorating schools in many urban areas. >>>

by **somebody** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:24 pm

I have been wondering about low birth weight lately too. Of the 6 new mothers (in their mid 20's) that I know and are NOT anywhere near living in poverty, but are all above middle income.... all except 1 had babies that were under 7 lbs! One was in the 5lb range. In the mid- 70's babies seemed to me to weight in the 7+ and up to 9lbs routinely! My son weighed 8lb 15oz.... and I was a small, thin (the good ole days) 21 yr old, not a big woman at all. The last time that I'd heard of these kind of birth weights, were when the baby boomers were born. It has me concerned and I've wanted to get some reliable links for this info... if they exist. The thought that we all might be so screwed by DU spreading across the world... is really a thought beyond belief! But that's what I usually say about this cabal's actions.... so maybe I should take that as a warning, that it is beginning to happen. expletive!

by **somebody** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:24 pm

Birth Weight Reduction Associated with Residence near a Hazardous Waste Landfill.Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Volume 105, Number 8 August 1997 <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The Lipari Landfill is a 15-acre site located in Mantua Township, Gloucester Country, New Jersey, and borders the towns of Pitman, Glassboro, and Harrison. The landfill is ranked number one on the EPA’s National Priority List. In 1958 the site was first excavated as a source of sand and gravel, leaving an empty pit that was later backfilled with municipal refuse, household wastes, liquid and semisolid chemical wastes, and other industrial wastes. The landfill operated until 1971 and accepted an estimated 12,000 cubic yards of solid waste and 2.9 million gallons of liquid chemical waste. Liquid wastes were emptied from containers and dumped into the landfill from 1958 to 1969, and solid wastes were disposed of until May 1971 (1).<hr></blockquote> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The decrease in average birth weight for Area 1A was dramatic over the 10 years from the end of 1965 to the end of 1975, when average birth weight dropped 189 g. This time frame includes the documented period of heaviest dumping of hazardous chemicals in the landfill (1) and the postulated period of greatest potential for exposures to nearby residents. After 1975, Area 1A’s average birth weight rebounded over 300 g and was substantially higher (163 g) than the control population.<hr></blockquote> I am now believing that it is not a problem of education, ie. poverty. 4 of the 6 new mom's I mention in the above post, are college grads! It is contamination. Be it DU, toxins in our water, or a bigger monster like DU. And the PTB would like us to belive that they're not doing it, but put the blame on poverty. Something very serious is going on here. DU needs to be THE story of this next year.

by **somebody** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:27 pm

here's the link: <a href="http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NER/JOURNAL/jad11040304.html">www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NER/JOU...40304.html</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:49 pm

...and get one of the few brave Dems like Kucinich to make the case that Republican Big Business is the terrorist organization that has dirty-bombed America. This is how we must think and react in what's left of the public discourse. Fascists promote the terrorist-fighting propaganda so let us use it right back at 'em.

by **somebody** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:14 pm

You've got that right, Manatee. Lets get this spread all over the internet and make it the big issue that it is. Excellent statement... they have dirty-bombed America! Time to get the word out to everyone. It's apparently been known since 1995. <a href="http://southmovement.alphalink.com.au/antiwar/depleted.htm">southmovement.alphalink.c...pleted.htm</a> "The use of Depleted Uranium (DU) armour piercing shells by U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War was uncovered by the German professor, Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther. A survivor of world war and internment in a Nazi concentration camp, Dr. Gunther is a tireless campaigner in the struggle to highlight the little-reported and ongoing human suffering resulting from the Gulf War. We reprint a South movement interview of professor Gunther in Nov 1995."

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:03 am

I read that, thanks. I tried some of the other links at the site and they'd been taken over by Gulf War paraphenalia hawkers selling through eBay. Someone doesn't want this info to get around. So that's we must do.

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