The Fight Begins Veterans Take Depleted Uranium into Court

[Monkeyman]

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=8&aid=62389

Local War Vets take the fight against Bush's government over DU exposure to court.

They fought for their country in Iraq,and now they are fighting their Government over an illness that they say can be directly linked to thier service. NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following report.

A group of New York Iraq war veterans are in a battle against their own military and government,and they are hoping the Federal courts will come to thier rescue.



The hearing has been held this vet wishes them luck. DU is a killer and needs to be addressed

The judge did not indicate when he'll make his decision

[NMDemDist2]

1. K&N and God Speed to them! n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

2. A special ops colonel dishes the dirt on DU

U.S. Colonel Admits 500 Tons of D.U. Were Used in Iraq

By Jay Shaft
Coalition For Free Thought In Media
5 May 2003

In three separate interviews a U.S. Special Operations Command Colonel admitted that the U.S. and Great Britain fired 500 tons of D.U. munitions into Iraq.

He has also informed me that the G.B.U.-28 BLU 113 Penetrator Bunker Buster 5000 pound bomb contains D.U. in the warhead. Until now, as far as I know, the materials used to make the warhead of the G.B.U-28 have remained shrouded in mystery.

He also admitted that privately the Pentagon has acknowledged the health hazards of D.U. for years.

SNIP

U.S.C.: Well…………… (long pause, followed by heavy profanity)…. Okay, I’ll give you some dirt if that’s what you’re looking for. The Pentagon knows there are huge health risks associated with D.U. They know from years of monitoring our own test ranges and manufacturing facilities.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0305/S00050.htm

[IChing]

3. One whose job it was to move tanks had a baby with 3 fingers at birth

plus stomach cancers
Democracy Now had a bit on it today

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/07/1643226

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11

Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11
Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan

by Doug Westerman

SNIP

Dr. Keith Baverstock, The World Health Organization's chief expert on radiation and health for 11 years and author of an unpublished study has charged that his report " on the cancer risk to civilians in Iraq from breathing uranium contaminated dust " was also deliberately suppressed.

The information released by the U.S. Dept. of Defense is not reliable, according to some sources even within the military.

In 1997, while citing experiments, by others, in which 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of cancer of the lungs, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying,

"The (US government's) Veterans Administration asked me to lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body."

At that time Dr. Durakovic was a colonel in the U.S. Army. He has since left the military, to found the Uranium Medical Research Center, a privately funded organization with headquarters in Canada.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060503&articleId=2374

[Monkeyman]

5. I am one of forty still here out of 250

We had our government spray us with Orange. But DU is far more deadly. My fear is these kids exposed in Iraq will not be here to tell their stories in a few years. Bush and DOD knew that DU would kill our own and the people of Iraq. There is no excuse here but I think this Judge will tell these Soldiers and Marines you can not sue your Government.