Just when you thought you had heard the worst ...

I got this from a mailing list I'm on:

> Mysterious Diseases Haunt U.S. Troops In Iraq
> July 17, 2003 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies)
> http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-07/17/article03.shtml
>
> NATO experts attribute the mysterious symptoms suffered by U.S.
> soldiers to the use of depleted uranium
>
> BAGHDAD – Several mysterious diseases were reported among a number > of American troops within the vicinity of Baghdad airport, a
> military source closely close to NATO unveiled.
>
> U.S. soldiers deployed around Baghdad airport started showing
> symptoms of mysterious fever, itching, scars and dark brown spots
> on the skin, the source, who refused to be named, said in
> statements published Thursday, July 17, by the Saudi Al-Watan
> newspaper.
>
> He asserted that three soldiers who suffered these symptoms did not
> respond to medical treatment in Iraqi hospitals and were flown to
> Washington for medication.
>
> The military source reported a media blackout by U.S. officials to
> hide such information from the public.
>

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I don't mean to scare anyone but tell troops and their families to
be checked. Make sure that military families hear about this. Things
caught early can be cured.

RV, sick at heart.

It could be true but you would think that the Bush admin would jump on this and say "AH-HAH!!!" already.


On edit: DOH!!!! I didn't see the part about the uranium coming from our B-2 bombs. Sorry.

but I know it was many many thousands . . . you can't possibly dump that much radioactive material on a country and not have massive contamination . . . and it has to effect both US troops and Iraqi citizens in ways we can only imagine . . . the only question, in my mind, is just how bad it's gonna ultimately prove to be . . .

... is that one medical research group in Afghanistan is finding two distinct patterns in urine samples taken from people bombed there--one is depleted uranium and the other is natural uranium (the latter with a radioactivity approximately equal to that found in nature).

This makes me wonder if the supplies of depleted uranium are drying up, and some weapons have been produced with natural uranium, or if (as was suggested about earlier DU weapons) the DU stocks were contaminated by another source. From an epidemiological standpoint, seeing symptoms of uranium poisoning this soon would indicate the levels are much higher than in the first Gulf War. Not good news.

but have a very very strong stomach. what the DU ordinance has done to the children of Iraq since poppy's war is sickening.

it's no surprise that soldiers are getting sick and with bushco* running things... they'll get about as much help as the iraqi kids...

200,000 are on disability from the Gulf War syndrome and another 50,000 are requesting disability.

There are so many scandles here. This and the fact the troops have to buy a lot of their own stuff. The chicken hawks deserve a long term sentence at Guantanmo.

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