- The lies from DOD officials continue regarding the actual
adverse health and environmental effects of uranium munitons use on the
battlefield. The infamous Los Alamos directive that was issued to ensure
the use of DU munitions no matter what will be followed until all of God's
earth is contaminated. I WANT TO REPEAT tHIS AND MAKE IT VERY CLEAR. DU
MUNITIONS MUST NOT BE USED! THEIR USE LEAVES A RADIAOCTIVE TOXIC MESS THAT
CANNOT BE CLEANED UP. THERE STILL IS NO ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE FOR URANIUM
EXPOSURES.
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- THE USE OF DU MUNITIONS DURING WAR IS BY MY PROFESSIONAL
AND PERSONAL OPINION; AS THE U.S. ARMY HEALTH PHYSICIST WHO WAS ORDERED
BY THE PENTAGON AND GENERAL NORMAN SCWARTZKOPF BY NAME TO CLEAN UP THE
MESS AND AS THE FORMER DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DU PROJECT DIRECTOR; IS A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND HUMANITY.
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- The citizens of the world must hold each and every individual
who shoots DU munitions guilty of war crimes!!!
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- DU HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD WARNINGS ORIGINATED
WITHIN THOSE ARMY SCIENTISTS WHO STUDIED DU BEFORE THE WAR AND BY THOSE
OF US WHO WERE TASKED TO CLEAN UP THE DU MESS AFTER THE WAR. THEY DID NOT
COME FROM IRAQI OR ANY OTHER SOURCES.
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- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD!
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- Dr. Doug Rokke 217-643-6205
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- DEPLETED URANIUM
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- By Dr. Doug Rokke, Major, USAR Former Gulf War I DU Team
Health Physicist and DU Project Director
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- Gulf War I was the first significant use of DU in combat
with at least 320 tons of DU munitions contamination left on the battlefield.
During 1995 and 1996, the U.S. Marines fired DU munitions in Okinawa then
did not tell the Japanese Government for over one year. During 1995 the
U.S. military fired at least 10000 rounds of DU munitions in Serbia followed
by at least 31000 rounds of DU munitions into Kosovo and Serbia during
1999. Astonishingly, the U.S. Navy fired DU on Vieques, Puerto Rico to
prepare for Kosovo attacks in willful violation of U.S. and international
law and have ignored adverse health effects and environmental contamination
to avoid liability.
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- Verified DU exposure adverse health effects include:
(a) Reactive airway disease, (b) neurological abnormalities, (c) kidney
stones and chronic kidney pain, (d) rashes, (e) vision degradation, night
vision losses, and catarcts (f) gum tissue problems, (g) lymphoma, (h)
various forms of skin and organ cancer, (I) neuro-psychological disorders,
(j) uranium in semen, (k) sexual dysfunction, and (l) birth defects in
offspring.
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- Since the Gulf War, the cover-up of adverse health and
environmental consequences has been the objective of U.S. Department of
Defense officials so that they can always use DU in combat. The cover-up
started with the infamous Los Alamos memorandum sent to our team in Saudi
Arabia during March 1991. This memo told us to be sure that we should
only report our findings so DU munitions could always be used. IN OTHER
WORDS LIE! A letter sent to General Leslie Groves during 1943 is even more
disturbing. In that memorandum dated October 30, 1943, senior scientists
assigned to the Manhattan Project suggested that uranium could be used
as an air, water, and terrain contaminant. According to the letter sent
by the Subcommittee of the S-1 Executive Committee on the "Use of
Radioactive Materials as a Military Weapon" to General Groves (October
30, 1943) inhalation of uranium would result in "bronchial irritation
coming on in a few hours to a few days".
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- This is exactly what happened to those of us who inhaled
DU dust during Operation Desert Storm and in U.S. soldiers in the Balkans.
The subcommittee went on further to state that "Beta emitting products
could get into the gastrointestinal tract from polluted water, or food,
or air. From the air, they would get on the mucus of the nose, throat,
bronchi, etc. and be swallowed. The effects would be local irritation
just as in the bronchi and exposures of the same amount would be required.
The stomach, caecum and rectum, where contents remain for longer periods
than elsewhere would be most likely affected. It is conceivable that ulcers
and perforations of the gut followed by death could be produced, even without
an general effects from radiation".
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- Today, while medical problems increase medical care is
denied or delayed for all uranium exposed casualties while United States
Department of Defense and British Ministry of Defense officials continue
to deny any correlation between uranium exposure and adverse health and
environmental effects. They contend that they can spread radioactive waste
(uranium 238) in anyone's backyard without cleaning it up and providing
medical care. Their arrogance is astonishing!
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- As the Army's DU expert (1991- 1995) my conclusions and
recommendations were that:
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- (1) All DU contamination must be removed and disposed
of to prevent future exposures.
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- (2) Specialized radiation detection devices that detect
and measure alpha particles, beta articles, x-rays, and gamma rays emissions
must be acquired and distributed because standard radiation detection equipment
will not detect DU contamination.
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- (3) Medical care must be provided to all DU casualties.
(4) All individuals who enter, climb on, or work within 25 meters of any
DU contaminated equipment or terrain must wear respiratory and skin protection.
(5) DU contaminated and damaged equipment or materials should not be recycled
to manufacture new materials or equipment.
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- (6) All individuals who may encounter DU must complete
specialized education and training.
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- Even though Department of Defense directives have required
medical care, education and training, and environmental remediation for
years:
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- (1) Medical care has not been provided to all DU casualties.
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- (2) Environmental remediation has not been completed.
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- (3) Contaminated and damaged equipment and materials
have been recycled to manufacture new products.
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- (4) Training and education has only been partially implemented.
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- (5) Contamination management procedures have not been
distributed and implemented.
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- Today, all citizens of the world must raise a unified
voice to ban the future use of depleted uranium munitions and force the
leaders of those nations that have used depleted uranium munitions to recognize
the immoral consequences of their actions, provide medical care to "all"
DU casualties, and complete environmental remediation. And to cite a famous
quotation: "AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM". But if the children
are sick or dead and the citizens of the world permit this to continue
then there will not be a child who can fulfill the prophecy and lead us
to peace.
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