Depleted Uranium: Possibly the Worst War Crime in History

DU: Possibly the Worst War Crime in History :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq: "DU: Possibly the Worst War Crime in History | Kurt Nimmo | February 28, 2005

It is totally astounding. Bush Senior, Clinton, and Bush the Junior are war criminals of a caliber not witnessed since the war against the people of Vietnam (2-3 million killed). It is estimated this threesome of mass murder have killed around 1.5 million Iraqis (under the supervision of Bush I and Clinton), at least 3,620 Afghan civilians (according to a count conducted by Marc Herold of the Guardian as of August 2002 < http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/comment/story/0,11447,
770999,00.html >) and 100,00 Iraqi civilians under the supervision of Bush II (according to research conducted by The Lancet medical journal < http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/10/28/iraq_death
s041028.html >). Add to this staggering death toll approaching 2 million another 11,000 Americans killed by “Gulf War Syndrome” and you have crimes of Nuremberg tribunal proportions.

“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,” Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, told Bob Nichols… < http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml > 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.” Bernklau added: “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!’” ...