Expert claims no U.S. troops have taken ill from depleted uranium

[babylonsister]

So we continue to LIE to the military??


Expert: No U.S. troops have taken ill from depleted uranium
By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, December 14, 2007

The U.S. military has yet to discover a case of an American servicemember becoming ill due to its use of depleted uranium over the past few decades, a Pentagon official says.

Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director of force health protection and readiness for the Pentagon’s department of health affairs, doesn’t rule out the possibility of that happening.

But he said in a telephone interview Wednesday that a preventive education policy and the nature of the munitions themselves have resulted in no documented cases since the start of the first Gulf War.

Kilpatrick made his comments when asked about an October report in the Corriere della Serra, one of Italy’s largest daily newspapers, that highlighted an address by Italian Defense Minister Arturo Parisi before an Italian Senate commission looking into the issue.

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http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50972

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But tell that to these soldiers, who tested positive, and this is from 2004...

Broadcast Exclusive: U.S. Soldiers Contaminated With Depleted Uranium Speak Out

A special investigation by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News has found four of nine soldiers of the 442nd Military Police Company of the New York Army National Guard returning from Iraq tested positive for depleted uranium contamination. They are the first confirmed cases of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the current Iraq conflict.

After repeatedly being denied testing for depleted uranium from Army doctors, the soldiers contacted The News who paid to have them tested as part of their investigation.

Testing for uranium isotopes in 24 hours’ worth of urine samples can cost as much as $1,000 each.

In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, three of the contaminated soldiers speak out.

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/5/broadcast_exclusive_u_s_soldiers_contaminated

[MnFats]

1. Imagine my relief! No danger!

uh, wait.....

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Two words: agent orange.

damn the bureaucracy, anyway.

[dailykoff]

3. So those cases of rectal cancer in soldiers who sit on DU

munitions in tanks are just a fluke? That's a relief!

p.s. fatal cases.

[Flabbergasted]

4. The biggest scam since "scientists" saying "cigarettes are great".

[spanone]

5. they are the same clowns that think the earth is flat and global warming is a myth