[Milton]

Absolutely ghastly video, great post spanky.

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[QUOTE BY= spanky] The video "Beyond Treason" is now posted at google video. It shows that going back to WWII days there is an established history of the US using it's soldiers and troops as guinea pigs by exposing them to hazardous conditions without adequate protection and without proper medical follow up. Some of the situations it mentions are the intentional exposure of troops to radiation from above ground nuclear testing, unapproved medical vaccines, exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam, and a host of chemical exposures which are still not officially acknowledged from Gulf War 1 as well as depleted uranium. Some of the troops suffering from Gulf War syndrome are interviewed for the documentary. Major Doug Rokke PhD, the former head of the army's depleted uranium project at the time of Gulf War 1 provides commentary for the segment on DU along with Lauren Moret.<br /> <br /> You can watch the video at this link (1hr 28min):<br /> <br /> <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7994353294099338929">Beyond Treason</a><br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> <br /> In case anyone is wondering, Canada also used soldiers as guinea pigs, and I don't mean the recently reported use of agent orange and purple at Gagetown.<br /> <br /> Canada used soldiers as test subjects without telling them before hand for all kinds of chemical tests in the 1940s....I can't find the proof, but it was shown on the National on CBC I believe. There was old footage uncovered from the archives....that said it is true that less was known about these sort of things than is now known so there was some ignorance.

[Spanky]

<b>Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11<br /> <br /> Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan</b><br /> <br /> By Douglas Westerman<br /> <br /> 05/01/06 "Vital Truths" -- - In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars.<br /> <br /> Imagine a far worse scenario. Terrorists acquire a million pounds of the deadly dust and scatter it in populated areas throughout the U.S. Hundreds of children report symptoms. Many acquire cancer and leukemia, suffering an early and painful death. Huge increases in severe birth defects are reported. Oncologists are overwhelmed. Soccer fields, sand lots and parks, traditional play areas for kids, are no longer safe. People lose their most basic freedom, the ability to go outside and safely breathe. Sounds worse than 9/11? Welcome to Iraq and Afghanistan.<br /> <br /> Dr. Jawad Al-Ali (55), director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra, Iraq stated, at a recent ( 2003) conference in Japan:<br /> <br /> <i>"Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2 cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney--he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer. Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer".<br /> <br /> "Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning. They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most, however, cancer of the lymph system which can develop anywhere on the body, and has rarely been seen before the age of 12 is now also common."<br /> <br /> "We were accused of spreading propaganda for Saddam before the war. When I have gone to do talks I have had people accuse me of being pro-Saddam. Sometimes I feel afraid to even talk. Regime people have been stealing my data and calling it their own, and using it for their own agendas. The Kuwaitis banned me from entering Kuwait - we were accused of being Saddam supporters."</I><br /> <br /> John Hanchette, a journalism professor at St. Bonaventure University, and one of the founding editors of USA TODAY related the following to DU researcher Leuren Moret. He stated that he had prepared news breaking stories about the effects of DU on Gulf War soldiers and Iraqi citizens, but that each time he was ready to publish, he received a phone call from the Pentagon asking him not to print the story. He has since been replaced as editor of USA TODAY.<br /> <br /> Dr. Keith Baverstock, The World Health Organization's chief expert on radiation and health for 11 years and author of an unpublished study has charged that his report " on the cancer risk to civilians in Iraq from breathing uranium contaminated dust " was also deliberately suppressed.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12903.htm">Depleted Uranium, Worse Than 911</a>

[Spanky]

SPREADING CANCER<br /> <br /> By Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services<br /> <br /> The unending game of "pretend" that the U.S. media allow George Bush to play on the global stage, so often letting his lying utterances hang suspended, unchallenged, in the middle of the story, as though they were plausible - as though a class of third-graders couldn't demolish them with a few innocent questions - feels like the journalistic equivalent of waterboarding. Gasp! Some truth, please!<br /> <br /> I suggest the prez has forfeited the right to command a headline, or half a story, or an uninterrupted quote: ". . . we'll defend ourselves, but at the same time we're actively working with our partners to spread peace and democracy," he said last week in Austria.<br /> <br /> SNIP<br /> <br /> The occupation of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the entire war (to promote) terror . . . please, please, can these no longer be trotted out in consequence-free abstraction, but as the high-tech malevolence they are, actively continuing the incalculable devastation of countries and their populations?<br /> <br /> The bodies keep piling up, the toxic horrors spread. Hasn't anyone in this place ever heard of depleted uranium? Is the health crisis in Iraq and, indeed, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, not to mention Kosovo and among returning vets for the last four American wars, somehow irrelevant to "the course" we're asked to stay?<br /> <br /> "Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with two cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney - he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. . . . My wife has nine members of her family with cancer."<br /> <br /> This is Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, director of the oncology center at the largest hospital in Basra, speaking in 2003 at a peace conference in Japan. Why is it that only peace activists are able to hear people like this? Why hasn't he been asked to testify before Congress as its members debate the future of this war and the next?<br /> <br /> "Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning," he went on. "They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most. However, cancer of the lymph system, which can develop anywhere on the body and has rarely been seen before the age of 12, is now also common."<br /> <br /> SNIP<br /> <br /> While Bush mouths ironic whoppers - "We will be standing with the people of Afghanistan and Iraq until their hopes for freedom and liberty are fulfilled," he told the U.N. General Assembly a while back - his actions pass, in the words of former Livermore Labs scientist Leuren Moret, "a death sentence on the Middle East and Central Asia."<br /> <br /> A war crime of unprecedented dimension is unfolding as we avert our eyes. Perhaps it's simply too big to see, or to grasp, so we lull ourselves into the half-belief that the powers that be know what they're doing and it will all turn out for the best. Meanwhile, the contagion spreads, the children die, the planet becomes uninhabitable.<br /> <br /> Complete article at:<br /> <a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12532">SPREADING CANCER</a><br /> <br /> Another link on depleted uranium<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1489246">1000 Metric Tons of U238</a>