[Mb-civic] Depleted Uranium: 11, 000 GulfWar I soldiers dead, 60% disabled

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When asked if the main purpose of using DU was for “destroying things and
killing people,” Fulk was more specific: “I would say it is the perfect
weapon for killing lots of people!”

http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml

SFBayview.com  February 23, 2005

Heads roll at Veterans Administration 

by Bob Nichols

Project Censored Award Winner

Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans
Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the
growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.

Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau,
executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated,
“The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given,
however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming
depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed
a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US
Military.”

Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands 
of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the
cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now
being revealed.”

He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf
War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on
Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’
means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some 
form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the 
last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.

“The VA Secretary (Principi) was aware of this fact as far back as 2000,”
wrote Bernklau. “He, and the Bush administration have been hiding these
facts, but now, thanks to Moret’s report, (it) ... is far too big to hide or
to cover up!”

“Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist, Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, at the VA
Central Office, recently reported that ‘Gulf Era Veterans’ now on medical
disability, since 1991, number 518,739 Veterans,” said Berklau.

“The long-term effects have revealed that DU (uranium oxide) is a virtual
death sentence,” stated Berklau. “Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist,
who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was 
also involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid
malignancies in the soldiers (from the 2003 Iraq War) as ‘spectacular 
 
and a matter of concern!’”

When asked if the main purpose of using DU was for “destroying things and
killing people,” Fulk was more specific: “I would say it is the perfect
weapon for killing lots of people!”

Principi could not be reached for comment prior to deadline.

References

1. Depleted uranium: “Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets: A death
sentence here and abroad” by Leuren Moret, 
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml.

2. Veterans for Constitutional Law, 112 Jefferson Ave., Port Jefferson NY
11777, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director, (516) 474-4261, fax
516-474-1968.

3. Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter. Email Gary Kohls,
gkohls at cpinternet.com, with “Subscribe” in the subject line. 

Email Bob Nichols at bobnichols at cox.net.

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