ANTHONY CARDINALE of Buffalo News on Warning of toxic aftermath from uranium munitions:
The American use of depleted uranium munitions in both Persian Gulf wars has unleashed a toxic disaster that will eclipse the Agent Orange tragedy of the Vietnam War, a former top Army official said Monday evening.
Former Maj. Douglas Rokke, who was director of the Army's depleted uranium project, spoke to 125 people at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society. The Champaign, Ill., science professor was brought here by the Western New York Peace Center.
And yet, Congressional Republicans and the Administration cut VA health benefits. Support for the troops? Nope. More like fakery, lies and deception.
"The technology of war is out of control," Rokke concluded. "We don't have the ability to clean it up (or) treat it. I'm a warrior, but my conclusion is that war is obsolete. A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs report says over 221,000 of our sons and daughters are on permanent disability and over 10,000 dead – one-third of our Gulf War I force. And they're coming back sick right now."
And all the hawks continue to do is nothing. They don't care. All the "traitors" talk and chest-thumping about "support our troops" amounts to nothing when those who screamed loudest for American men and women to be put in harm's way now sit idly by, pretending not to notice. Its disgusting.
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