DU kills US Soldier?

[LowerCaseRepublican]

http://www.kshb.com/kshb/home/article/0,19...3431964,00.html

 

The family of a metro soldier fears he died from a war-related illness. They shared their story exclusively with NBC Action News.

35-year-old Army Sergeant Clay Garton spent 16-months in Iraq. His family says ammunition used by soldiers poisoned him. They claim he was exposed to depleted uranium dust during a rescue mission in Fallujah in May.

 

http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/vide...ted_uranium.htm has the news video with the family and a few more details than the article did.

 

Veterans' Affairs has gone from refusing compensation to GWS [Gulf War Syndrome] victims to now doing more research into what the actual cause of GWS is and giving compensation for medical coverage. But it is not substantial by any means.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/431817.stm The controversy over the reported dangers of depleted uranium (DU) has intensified, with a Canadian study said to show "unequivocal" evidence of damage to health.

 

http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=594 is a good interview with Major Doug Rokke who has a PhD in health physics and is a 35 year veteran. One of the more powerful things he stated were:

 

As the director of the Depleted Uranium Project, I developed a 40-hour block of training. All that curriculum has been shelved. They turned what I wrote into a 20-minute program that’s full of distortions. It doesn’t deal with the reality of uranium munitions.

 

The equipment is defective. The General Accounting Office verified that the gas masks leak, the chemical protective suits leak. Unbelievably, Defense Department officials recently said the defects can be fixed with duct tape.

 

And it’s not just children in Iraq. It’s children born to soldiers after they came back home. The military admitted that they were finding uranium excreted in the semen of the soldiers. If you’ve got uranium in the semen, the genetics are messed up. So when the children were conceived—the alpha particles cause such tremendous cell damage and genetics damage that everything goes bad. Studies have found that male soldiers who served in the Gulf War were almost twice as likely to have a child with a birth defect and female soldiers almost three times as likely.

[FlaSoxxJim]

Visionary folks that we are here at SoxTalk, I remember a year or more back suggesting all that hardened ammunition was going to become a human and environmental health nightmare, in stark contrast to others who insisted it was safe as milk.

 

I mean, it's not like our government would ever compromize the health of our servicemen -- or a few hundred nondescript brownish non-American types who we'll either liberate or obliterate, depending on which way the wind is blowing.