Unravelling the DU subterfuge

February 27th, 2006 at 15:26 Björn Hallberg

More information on the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi and the relationship to the over-up of the effects of depleted uranium.

In the article Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law, reportedly wrote that “thousands of our military have suffered and died from, [and depleted uranium] has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.” Bernklau went on to detail several alarming statistics. The historical disability rate amongst soldiers last century was about 5 percent, although it approached 10 percent during Vietnam. But due to the use of depleted uranium in the battlefield, 56 percent of the 580,400 solders that served in the first Gulf War were on Permanent Medical Disability by 2000. 11,000 Gulf War veterans are already dead. Now 518,739 Gulf War Veterans, almost all of them, are currently on medical disability.

But then again the issue is not veterans, who should have known better instead of galloping off lending a hand to imperial designs, but rather the effect that these weapons have had and continue to have on the people who are unfortunate enough to inhabit America’s designated battlefields.

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