- Peace Garden: Camp Falcon Follow-up

Camp Falcon Follow-up

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Previously I posted to a video and wondered where the reporting was - little coverage of the deaths. Now there are reports that depleted uranium (DU) was stored there.

They were spectacular explosions because DU in storage all goes off at once.
You can see the streamers of DU chunks burning through the cloud and the familiar mushroom cloud. It is not Willie Pete or White Phosphorus because they leave white smoke and wobble.
The public is still ignorant of the Depleted Uranium ( DU ) munitions threat and the Pentagon and media have been complicit in this blackout.
Perhaps a reminder of the mounting death toll ( 11,000 U.S. Soldiers ) from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU), which was stored at Camp Falcon, is in order.
Yes he said 11,000! Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York states:
Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead, he said. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. More than a decade later, more than half (56 percent) who served in Gulf War I have permanent medical problems. The disability rate for veterans of the world wars of the last century was 5 percent, rising to 10 percent in Vietnam.
“The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence,” Bernklau said. “Marion Fulk, a nuclear chemist, who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was also involved in the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the soldiers [from the second war] as ‘spectacular’—and a matter of concern.’ ”
So with Camp Falcon clouds - the reports of the deaths are clearly possible. The deaths from this war (and the use of WP, DU...) will also clearly haunt too many families (on all sides) for years to come.
Where is the so called liberal media!



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