US VETS NEED TO SPEAK

"If DU enters the body, it has the potential to generate significant medical consequences. The risks associated with DU in the body are both chemical and radiological."

The US Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI), Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium Use in the US Army, June 1995

What is DU? DU, or Depleted Uranium is a radioactive metal that is being used as armor for the A‑10, M1A1, and Bradley. This low grade NUCLEAR WASTE material (half life over 250,000 years) is also being used for ordinance, to the tune of OVER 950,000 rounds of DU munitions fired during the Gulf War. Between 300 and 800 TONS of Depleted Uranium particles and dust have been spread over the land and water in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The US STOCKPILE of U‑238 is now in the BILLIONS of pounds, and has been given for free to weapons manufacturers for use and sale to any country that wants 'Tank Busting' ammo. Upon impact, aerosolized Uranium dust has been found to remain at the target site, and also to travel for hundreds of miles on the wind.

According to the U.S. ARMY, the material is extremely dangerous, and should be treated as a radiological hazard. The Veterans Administration refuses to perform definitive testing that would determine the DU contribution to GULF WAR SYNDROME. Meanwhile DU munitions are being sold to every country with a couple of dollars, some of these weapons will be used on American Citizens, or Bosnians, or Nigerians...

Ninety Thousand Veterans of Operation Desert STORM suffer from medical problems consistent with exposure to clouds of vaporized DU.

Countless Iraqi civilians have been exposed to this nuclear waste also. BIRTH DEFECTS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING IN CHILDREN OF GULF WAR VETERANS THAT ARE IDENTICAL T0 THOSE FOUND IN IRAQI WAR ZONE BABIES, WHICH ARE IN TURN IDENTICAL T0 THOSE, EXHIBITED BY BABIES BORN TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDERS AFTER U.S. ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR TESTING INTENTIONALLY EXPOSED the local population FOR GOVERNMENT STUDIES ‑RONGELAP

"Inhaled insoluble oxides stay in the lungs longer and pose a potential cancer risk due to radiation. Ingested DU dust can also pose both a radioactive and toxicity risk." ‑ Operation Desert Storm: Army not adequately prepared to Deal With Depleted Uranium Contamination, United States General Accounting Office (GAO/NSIAD‑93‑90), January 1993, pp. 17‑18.

Veterans SPEAK UP! Contact the President, and your Senators, Demand an explanation as to why the victims were not warned, or adequately protected frown this radioactive threat. Over I Million US soldiers have been knowingly exposed to nuclear radiation, not to mention the sufferrers among allied troops. DU weapons are in Bosnia now, and US soldiers are still dying from unexplained medical complications.

SPEAK NOW

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Remember Agent Orange... The fallout from domestic testing...Bikini Atoll... lT IS TIME TO BAN ALL NUKES !!!