Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Nuovi dati sugli effetti dell'uranio impoverito

Invio l'art. che segue poiché mi pare contenga dati nuovi sul problema. Non
sarebbe bene discuterne, una volta tanto, in modo meno "predeterminato
politicamente"? Stiamo parlando di un problema *sanitario*, che concerne
(oltre che la salute dei nostri soldati) la natura stessa delle guerre in
corso, le quali (senza dubbio al di là delle intenzioni della pur esecrabile
amm. USA) potrebbero (*potrebbero*: cerchiamo di capire) essere
*sottovalutate*, quanto al loro bilancio (e alla loro eredità!) di morte.
Namib
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Moret0824.htm
Depleted Uranium, Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets:
A Death Sentence Here and Abroad
by Leuren Moret
www.dissidentvoice.org
August 24, 2004
 "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy."
-- Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States
Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam."
Vietnam was a chemical war, permanently contaminating large regions and
countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most
devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four
nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange,
meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast
regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently
contaminated with radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans
Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era
veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only
7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by
reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S.
military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent
of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU)
only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this
issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are
not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf
War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is
in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment
Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to
chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to
confuse the issue.
This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by
the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first
used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction
of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that
DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported
that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired
from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the
Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers
from the 2003 war as "spectacular . and a matter of concern."
This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological
systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from
nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and
targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU
causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.
In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for
using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more
specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of
people."
Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to
develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been
reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing
with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq
using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this
phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown
until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.
Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in
1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are
dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This
astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of
those soldiers who served now have medical problems.
The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by
43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told
American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than
even after World War II.
They brought it home
Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they
brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their
wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s
who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and
were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.
In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had
normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were
born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms,
organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans'
families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the
children born before the war.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records
of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.
[...]

Depleted Uranium, Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets:
                   ============ ==============
Non esistono bombe al DU e non esistono nemmeno missili al DU.
Indi per cui chi ha scritto l'articolo di DU non ne capisce un emerito
ca**o.
-Stefano

 ca**o.
Bene: ora dimostrami che "dirty" significa "al DU", e che non è una semplice
metafora (a tutti comprensibile).
Namib

semplice metafora (a tutti comprensibile).
L'articolo parla del DU. E non esistono bombe al DU ne missili al DU.
Indi per cui la metafora sta solo nella tua fantasia.
-Stefano

 Indi per cui la metafora sta solo nella tua fantasia.
"Indi per cui" "dirty" significa o no "al DU"? Un sì o un no basterà.
Quanto alla metafora "esistente solo nella mia fantasia", ecco un brano
dell'art., che come al solito non hai letto:
This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by
reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S.
military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent
of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
La vedi ora, la metafora? O supponi che l'articolista intendesse accusare
l'AFP di terrorismo al DU?
Namib

This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb"
Aspetto di leggere ora un brano dell'articolo che parli di "dirty
missiles" e di "dirty projectiles".  Tu l'hai letto e quindi non avrai
problemi a citarli a sostegno della tua fantasiosa "metafora".
-Stefano

 problemi a citarli a sostegno della tua fantasiosa "metafora".
Cioč, hai letto l'uso, nell'art., dell'agg. "dirty" in "dirty bomb", e non
hai ancora capito che l'elenco significa semplicemente "armi pericolose per
altri motivi"? Infatti, a parte la metafora del titolo, nell'art. NON si
parla di "missiles" di alcun tipo (né al DU né senza), e tanto meno di
projectiles (di cui non si parla manco nel titolo), ma semplicemente dei
*possibili* EFFETTI del DU sull'uomo.  Sei una sagoma... Btw, devi ancora
dimostrarmi che "dirty" significhi "al DU", poiché che bombs, missiles e
bullets del titolo siano "al DU" č una TUA (imbecille) "deduzione", di cui
non troverai conferma alcuna nell'art..
Namib

TUA (imbecille) "deduzione",
Esattamente quanto la tua? :)
Solo che a differenza della tua il titolo parla di DU e l'articolo parla
di DU :)
-Stefano

 sbagliato.
Incredibile: De Cesari che chiede scusa e scrive "mi sono sbagliato"...
Continua così: un giorno o l'altro diventerai un essere civile.
Namib

Continua così: un giorno o l'altro diventerai un essere civile.
*ROTFL*
Da che pulpito la predica! :)
-Stefano

 Da che pulpito la predica!
Predica? E' un auspicio.
Namib