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Depleted
Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets
by Leuren
Moret
SF Bay View
A death sentence here and
abroad
“Military men are just dumb stupid
animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger,
quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own
POW’s in Vietnam”
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil,
permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with
Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world
history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using
depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S.
government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in
the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with
radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry
Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the
American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability
since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in
that same 14-year period.
This week the American Free Press dropped
a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who
served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have
malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit
have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
Since these soldiers were exposed to
vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for
researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the
definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause
cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who
also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement
with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health
Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to
chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to
confuse the issue.
This powerful new evidence is blowing
holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential
administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf
War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in
1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence
and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the biological
effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion
Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets
the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as
“spectacular … and a matter of concern.”
This evidence shows that of the three
effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and
particulate – the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the
most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code
in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of
diseases which are difficult to define.
In simple words, DU “trashes the body.”
When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things
and killing people, Fulk was more specific: “I would say that it is the
perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”
Soldiers developing malignancies so
quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from
independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in
hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in
Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU
for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon
of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until
now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.
Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in
the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers
who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were
325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of
disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers
who served now have medical problems.
The number of disabled vets reported up
to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the
Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes
there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.
They brought it
home
Not only were soldiers exposed to DU
on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen
of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and
girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual
partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to
have hysterectomies because of health problems.
In a group of 251 soldiers from a study
group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War,
67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects.
They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune
system and blood diseases. In some veterans’ families now, the only
normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the
war.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has
stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in
families of veterans.
How did they hide
it?
Before a new weapons system can be
used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium
weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.
Harvard President and physicist James B.
Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the
Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry.
Kerry’s father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a
CIA agent.
Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas
Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the
radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that
time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from
the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine
radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas
mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it
could kill or cause illness very quickly.
They also recommended it as a permanent
terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by
contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive
dust.
The first DU weapons system was developed
for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in
1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.
The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was
tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977,
and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.
Military research report summaries detail
the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing
and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states
are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.
Women living around these facilities have
reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia
in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons
of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery
ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest
growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military
denies that DU is the cause.
The medical profession has been active in
the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American
public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear
power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being
trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war
started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for
mental problems only.
Medical professionals in hospitals and
facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000
fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They
were also threatened with jail.
Reporters have also been prevented access
to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the
2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital
near Washington, D.C.
Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the
Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has
contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been
invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the
Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her
and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about
DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a
presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon
“and nothing overseas … nothing political.”
Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged
Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to
Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR,
several months later. When that didn’t work, he contacted Dr. Allan
Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel
my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own
member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians
suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in
southern Iraq.
Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and
long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time
after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After
the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about
her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last
job had been with the CIA.
How was the truth about DU hidden from
military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic
death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive
director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent
of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any
of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other,
preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The
“next DU war” had already been planned, and those planning it wanted “no
skunk at the garden party.”
The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA)
secret
A new book just published at the
American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, “The High Priests of War:
The Secret History of How America’s Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to
Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their
Drive for Global Empire,” details the early plans for a war against the
Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and
early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU “show on
the road” and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern
not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming
for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas
on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.
The book details the creation of the
neo-cons by their “godfather” and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who
pushed for a “war against terrorism” long before 9/11 and was lavishly
funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the
most influential men in the United States.
Both are public relations men for the
Israeli lobby’s neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert
Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group,
who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from
the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that
we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.
When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green
Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to
use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large
populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia -
just coincidentally the areas where most of the world’s oil deposits are
located - he replied: “It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger.”
In Zbignew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand
Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives,” the map
of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S.
foreign policy. The “South” region corresponds precisely to the regions
now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles
and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.
A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki,
has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000
Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity
equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10
times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from
atmospheric testing!
No wonder our soldiers, their families
and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick.
But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home
ill from Agent Orange, “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be
used for foreign policy.”
Unfortunately, more and more of those
soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU
radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our
environments just as the “smog of war” from the 1991 Gulf War was found
in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.
In June 2003, the World Health
Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will
increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren’t
telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence … for all
of us. We will all die in silent ways.
To learn
more:
Sources used in this story that
readers are encouraged to consult:
American Free Press four-part series on
DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I: “Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against
Iraq, Humanity,”; Part II: “Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says
Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,”
August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: “Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of
Nuclear War,”
August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol
Sterrit: “Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up – GI’s Will Come
Home To A Slow Death,”
World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,
Germany, October 16-19, 2004
International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written
opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat
“Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War” by
Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret
Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has
worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the
media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She
became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An
environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached
at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.
August 23, 2004