Marine Speaks Out on Using Depleted Uranium Munitions in Iraq
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…this is the Agent Orange of this occupation. This weapon has no purpose in Iraq granted this was during the initial invasion. So I, maybe, can understand its deployment. But, let’s be clear here depleted uranium is an anti-armor weapon… the Iraqis do not have armor. They don’t have tanks. They don’t have bombers. Why are we using this? And again I urge you to do the research yourselves. I can quickly say that we’re using this because it’s a way to get rid of atomic waste. We do not know what to do with that.
We’re poisoning our soldiers, we are poisoning the people of Iraq, but make no mistake we are poisoning the people of the world. I can test every single person in this room and I can find depleted uranium in your hair.
The VA has continually denied my request to be tested for depleted uranium. This letter clearly shows that they’re saying a test doesn’t even exist. And I will say for the record, a test does exist, it’s the wrong test. It’s the urinalysis that’s used to detect exposure, immediate exposure. The problem with depleted uranium is that these particles dig deep within your body, and you will not find them in your urine after a couple days. You need a very expensive test… one the VA us certainly not willing to pay for. But I would also like to point out that the VA does recognize the danger of depleted uranium, while they might not want to test for it, or talk about it, or give us any briefings on it.
That round on impact aerosols and vaporizes and these particles go up in the air, and that’s why I was saying I can test every single one of you and find it in your hair. These particles blow up into the atmosphere and are disseminated all around the entire globe. They have found depleted uranium on the skin of NASA vehicles in space. We are changing the entire genome of our planet: human beings, cats and dogs, plants. We are changing the genetic makeup of our planet by using these munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Unfortunately, the link comes up with this Video is No Longer Available. I do know that one Marine who testified with the IVAW gave false testimony. He claimed that a DU-tipped Hellfire missile had destroyed an American tank right after it crossed the Iraq border. That was categorically false since there is no such munition. There was an incident where a Hellfire missile hit an M1A1 Abrams Tank in the Gulf War in 1991 where the resultant fire and explosion ignited the propellant charge on the tank’s on board DU munitions and they “cooked off”. This Marine, though was not there in 1991 - he is too young to have been there in 1991 and he made the claim as it having happened in 2003. I would like to hear this video (if anyone has an MP3, please, send me a file at DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com ) - yes, I am a very active researcher of the anti-DU crusaders - most of whom, I have found, like this Marine have a very hard time telling the truth. They sure do stir up people who have genuine concerns, but those people really ought to verify what these people spew out with legitimate sources - start with a non-political science teacher.
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 am
This DU is the sole responsibility of the beast man itself, Dick Chenny.
Short term profits over the future of every living thing on this entire globe, even those single celled critters YOUR god(s) created. Is that it all wrapped up nice and neat, your god(s) will fix this for us? INsanity gone global. I have some news for you, you people are the worst to ever exist, all for some margin of “profit”.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 am
This idiot Matt Howard is not worth listening to minutes of lead in on whether or not anyone heard of Winter Soldier - he knows absolutely nothing about depleted uranium. He does not even sound that convincing — it is pure BS. Private Howard, submit to cross examination because you, son, are a liar!
DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com
There are a number of false statements on this Snowshoe Films film (they also do Rokke’s lies and are probably pushing Private Howard as the new Rokke)
When he says that “they have found depleted uranium on NASA vehicles in space”, who is “they” and how did this “they” make that determination. Any sane person would probably decide that Howard either has lost his marbles or is conning them when they hear this. Another one of his cons is telling everyone in the audience that he can find depleted uranium in their hair. Uranium is not found in hair. It concentrates in the kidneys. The only accurate portions of this video are the brief, though sarcastic reading of the VA DU Questionaire and the diagrams of the 120mm sabot round for the main tank gun. The rest is pure fiction, bad science fiction.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
bentonite clay, alpha lipoic Acid, (r-ALA is said to be better), l-cysteine and a good source of magnesium see Dr Sircus web site, taken in combination - I took the magnesium for a month prior (plus iodine they say - I didn’t try)) will rid the body of depleted uranium and give you your life back
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Roger, are you telling us that DU is not a hazardous radioactive waste? An 8th grade chemistry class will teach you that uranium hexafluoride (DU) is toxic and highly destructive to the endocrine system especially.
There IS a market for this type of atomic waste, and as long as there’s a market for it, it will be commercially exploited…
UN General Assembly Passes DU Resolution -
December 5, 2007 - 136 countries voted in favor of a Resolution highlighting serious health concerns over the use of depleted uranium weapons at the UN General Assembly.
In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Against: Czech Republic, Israel, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Whoever you are, you are mixing apples with kumquats. DUF6 (or UF6, the hexaflouride salt variant of uranium, is very toxic, but not found on the battlefield). Uranium oxide is a naturally occuring compound that is found all over the world, not because of the use of DU or any post-atomic energy reason, but because it is a common mineral and every living thing ingests or inhales an extremely minute amount of it every day. Scientists used U-238 to determine the age of 1000 year old ice deep in the Antarctic ice cap and they found that the quantities of U-238 were measurable in femtograms (quadrillionth of a gram, an extremely small, nearly immeasurable quantity). Given the newspaper coverage given to testing of NY National Guardsmen, similar to Matt Howard, I expect that Howard’s test results are also in femtograms (misspelled by Juan Gonzales in his NY Daily News article as fentogram) and that they really record his natural exposure to uranium over his lifetime. His claims in this video are not supportable by any evidence, nor has he offered any. He apparently likes the limelight and thinks that he is the new Doug Rokke; both he and Rokke were perepherial players in the war and both relish being the center of attention. Both he and Rokke connected with supposed peace groups (though, I am really surprised that Kelly Dougherty and the IVAW did not carefull vet every one of their “Winter Soldiers” - they should understand that you do not fight lies with more and bigger lies and Matt Howard is in that category.
Far as your UN resolution - it is a debate society that was influenced by activists and ignored its own scientific information (the UN Environment Programme was not consulted prior to this vote).
Now, why don’t you actually go talk to a science teacher instead of pretending like you know what you are talking about because you don’t.
PS, I note that Howard claims to have been a Corporal, but he certainly does not behave like a Corporal of Marines and thus I will continue to call him Private Howard. Meanwhile, I sent off a request for his military records and will share the response with this forum when I get it.
Here is a link to the Antarctic Ice - go read for yourself
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/1034
Los Alamos - Researchers find time in dusty polar ice
Note this uses measurements of “femtograms” - one quadrillionth of a gram — same (except misspelled) measurement as that for Specialist Matthew Gerard of NY National Guard
And here is a link to coal fired power plants - does the UN plan to ban them too - China certainly would oppose that resolution.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
Uranium Emitted from Coal Fired Power Plants
Even U-235 is emitted from coal fired plants
Here is a public message with dozens of links to similar scientific fact about uranium, radiation and other relevant topics.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DUStory/message/76
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 am
Message 88 has even more links than Message 76. It also leads off with UNEP and IAEA reports so that you can quickly learn from the actual international scientists who did extensive field and laboratory research. The people who voted at the UN ignored the research and listened to the misguided zealots like Matt Howard. Come on now, Matt, how in the world would anyone be measuring for DU on the skin of a spacecraft in space? Be real.