“OH MY GOD!”

Of the nearly 700,000 U.S. troops deployed in Kuwait and Iraq during the first Gulf War, more than 100,000 are now chronically ill. Many scientists believe that depleted uranium oxide dust is the cause of this so-called "Gulf-War Syndrome".

Despite widespread condemnation and repeated warnings from the scientific community, war veterans and others, the US military continues to use Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions.

At the end of the ground combat phase of the Gulf war, military DU weapons experts Dr Doug Rokke was assigned the job of cleaning up U.S. equipment contaminated by depleted uranium. He was also asked to “provide initial medical recommendations for all individuals who were or may have been exposed as a consequence of military actions."

Dr Rokke says:

"Our initial observations of the DU contamination can be summed simply by three words 'OH MY GOD!'

“Although my mission was limited to U.S. personnel and equipment, all affected persons and equipment should have been processed identically. They were not!

“Although I and U.S. Army physicians assigned to the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command issued immediate verbal and written medical care recommendations, those still have not been complied with - for not only all U.S. and coalition military DU casualties, but for Iraqi military personnel and especially noncombatants, women and children, who were exposed to DU munitions contamination."

Another Gulf War vet, Sergeant George A. Parker, performed similar duties for the British Army. He says:

"I am now aware that armed forces personnel are considered as disposable items. Something to be used abused and then discarded when broken. Further more, when made ill by the use of politically sensitive weapons such as DU they are an expensive embarrassment to be silenced when voicing concerns."

"It is my sincere and heart felt belief that until such time as the UK and US governments can properly care for ill and dying veterans of war, they should refrain from deploying members of the armed forces overseas."

Since the first Gulf War, cancer rates in southern Iraq have increased dramatically, including a 1600% jump in cases of ovarian cancer. Ironically, George W. Bush’s “liberation” of the Iraqi people may end up costing more Iraqi lives that Saddam’s own murderous use of chemical weapons against his own people.

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