US Nuked Iraq Already

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

US Nuked Iraq Already





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Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500,000
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Environmental Graffiti
Mon, May 26, 2008

http://www. environmentalgraffiti. com/business/iraq-depleted-urani...

In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in the world, or of a soldier to see through the chaos of night combat. Part of the rush of positive media was reserved for the 21st century silver bullet, depleted uranium. It was harder than steel, we were all told, and could cut through enemy armor like it was mere paper.
What we didn’t know, was that it would bring rise to a death toll higher than the atomic bombs used at the end of World War II

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs killed approximately 250,000 people at the end of the second world war; a grim statistic that’s been accepted to be relatively accurate.
DU shells, however, are estimated to have claimed 500,000 lives in between 1990 and 2000, not through the force of their violence, but by inhalation and the cancers they’ve caused

There were 200 tons of the stuff dumped into the Saudi and Iraqi deserts in the first Gulf Warl; a number that has only increased in light of the 2003 invasion. Fortunately, the need for depleted uranium shells has fallen as the current conflict has shifted from a force-on-force conflict to counterinsurgency. However, the toxic armaments are still carried and used, representing a serious threat to the Iraqi population and U.S.
veterans of the conflict So how significant can we expect the fallout from this conflict to be?

Since the first Gulf War, the rate of birth defects and childhood cancer in Iraq has increased sevenfold. In addition, more than 35 percent (251,000) of U.S.
Gulf War veterans are dead or on permanent medical disability, compared to the 400 or so that were killed in conflict



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Depleted Uranium Shells Used by US Military
Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
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Natural News
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by: David Gutierrez

The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S.
military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II

DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by the U.S.
and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine

Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of DU dust from the first Gulf War could lead to 500,000 cancer deaths by the year 2000.
To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been generated in the Middle East

In contrast, approximately 250,000 lives were claimed by the explosions and radiation released by the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991," said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed.
The environment now is completely radioactive"

Because DU has a half-life of 4.
5 billion years, the Middle East will, for all practical purposes, be radioactive forever

The two U.S.
wars in Iraq "have been nuclear wars because they have scattered nuclear material across the land, and people, particularly children, are condemned to die of malignancy and congenital disease essentially for eternity," said anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott

Since the first Gulf War, the rate of birth defects and childhood cancer in Iraq has increased by seven times. More than 35 percent (251,000) of U.S.
Gulf War veterans are dead or on permanent medical disability, compared with only 400 who were killed during the conflict.