What the governments of America and Britain have done to the people of Iraq they have also done to their own people and they have done it knowingly. The people out there – the Iraqis, the media and the troops – risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere.
It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world.
We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car.’ This is a story in which the facts have been concealed from those who needed them most. It is also a story we need to know if the people of Iraq are to get the medical care they desperately need, and if our troops, returning from Iraq, are not to suffer as terribly as the veterans of other conflicts in which depleted uranium was used. 'Depleted’ uranium is in many ways a misnomer. 'Depleted’ sounds weak. The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price....
THE RADIOACTIVITY PERSISTS FOR OVER
4,500,000,000 YEARS KILLING MILLIONS OF EVERY
AGE FOR CENTURIES TO COME .THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY WHICH MAY RANK
WITH THE WORST ATROCITIES OF
ALL TIME .
The people out there – the Iraqis, the media and the troops – risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere.
It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world.
We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car.’
This is a story in which the facts have been concealed from those who needed them most. It is also a story we need to know if the people of Iraq are to get the medical care they desperately need, and if our troops, returning from Iraq, are not to suffer as terribly as the veterans of other conflicts in which depleted uranium was used
. 'Depleted’ uranium is in many ways a misnomer.
'Depleted’ sounds weak. The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price.
It is dirt cheap, toxic, waste.
On hearing that DU had been used in the Gulf in 1991
the UK Atomic Energy Authority sent the
Ministry of Defence a special report on the potential
damage to health and the environment.
It said that it could cause half a million
additional cancer deaths in Iraq over 10 years.
In that war the authorities only admitted
to using 320 tons of DU – although the Dutch charity
LAKA estimates the true figure is closer to 800 tons.
Many times that may have been spread across
Iraq by this war. The devastating damage all this DU
will do to the health and fertility of the people of Iraq now,
and for generations to come,
IS BEYOND IMAGINING
The radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years killing millions
of every age for centuries to come.
This is a crime against humanity
which may rank with the worst atrocities of all time.
Since DU darkened the land Iraq has seen
birth defects which would break a heart of stone:
babies with terribly foreshortened limbs,
with their intestines outside their bodies,
with huge bulging tumours
where their eyes should be,
or with a single eye
– like Cyclops, or without eyes,
or without limbs, and even without heads.
A U.S. Department of Veterans study of 251 Gulf war veteran's
families found that 67% had children with severe
illnesses or birth defects.
Depleted uranium, also known as the radioactive isotope U-238,
doesn't just dissolve or go away.
The genocidal US and UK military has
permanently poisoned Kuwait, southern Iraq,
Bosnia, the Kosovo highlands of Yugoslavia
and much of the Yugoslavian
Danube River basin=wherever DU fire was
concentrated.
In Iraq, cancer rates have
quadrupled in areas of southern Iraq
bombed by the American and British
state terrorists. Cases of leukemia
are starting to show up
among people who served as NATO
occupation forces in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Pentagon officials have been forced to admit that thousands of U.S. soldiers were "unnecessarily exposed" to depleted uranium radiation
in the Gulf War. But of course they claim those exposures were "not medically significant."
Since Nature does not take orders from
the Pentagon, however, the
Gulf War Syndrome
affects one out of seven Gulf War veterans.
By some estimates, more than 120,000
Gulf War veterans are chronically ill
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