Army to test N.Y. Guard unit (Depleted Uranium contamination)

[deutsey]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180723p-156921c.html

Hillary demands that all veterans of Iraq get checked

Army officials at Fort Dix and Walter Reed Army Medical Center are rushing to test all returning members of the 442nd Military Police Company of the New York Army National Guard for depleted uranium contamination.

Army brass acted after learning that four of nine soldiers from the company tested by the Daily News showed signs of radiation exposure. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/180332p-156685c.html

The soldiers, who returned from Iraq late last year, say they and other members of their company have been suffering from unexplained illnesses since last summer, when they were stationed in the Iraqi town of Samawah.

Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a former Army doctor and nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested the nine men at The News' request, concluded four of them "almost certainly" inhaled radioactive dust from exploded depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), after learning of The News' investigation, blasted Pentagon officials yesterday for not properly screening soldiers returning from Iraq.

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[seventhson]

1. Radiation is SAFE!!! Nothing to see here. Move Along!

Clear the way for the radiation apologist industry experts who will tell you there is nothing to be alarmed about.

Irradiating our troops is safer than them eating candy.


See www.radiation.org for the TRUTH about what radiation is doing to our troops and to you and me.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Yes, indeed!! Where's treepig with all of his "expertise" now?

[treepig]

7. aha, it's you

i remember from the previous thread, discussing this very same matter, that you appeared to suffer from ADD. this unfortunate ailment seems to continue to afflict you (my sincerest condolences, btw), so since you seem unable to find my comments on this topic on your own, they can be found at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x462629

it's not really clear why this duplicate thread is allowed, but perhaps the new angle is the involvement of hillary. now that she's jumping on the scientifically dubious, but politically expedient, "DU is a radioactive-killer" bandwagon (as compared to the consideration of the toxic chemical effects of this poisonous heavy metal), hopefully she'll get right on these issues as well:

radiation would appear to be killing her and her constituents:

Some rooms in the US Capitol building and in New York's Grand Central Station are over 5-too high to be allowed nuclear power plant work areas. from http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/Toronto/radiation/natural_and_human_radiation.html

Radiation from the granite used in Grand Central Station exceeds the NRC limits for nuclear-plant operation. Grand Central Station wouldn't get a license as a nuclear plant. from http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/single.shtml?112297

just ask seventhson - and he'll tell you that there are no safe levels of radiation so let's get these death traps torn down without delay!!


and what about coal combustion, which has released 145,230 tons of uranium into the environment right here in the usa from http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

so, if 1,700 tons of uranium released into the environment through weapons use in iraq is an unmitigated disaster, giving rise to weekly hysterical threads here at DU, why has the contamination of the usa homeland with almost 100 times as much uranium, not to mention some 357,491 tons of radioactive thorium, been met with such apathy? why aren't there hundreds of outraged threads on this topic?

[sistersofmercy]

2. This issue of DU has been quietly squashed since GWI

Remember the reports about the Gulf War Syndrome? There are advocates who are fighting to be heard on the dangers of exposure to DU. The Dutch early in the this criminal war refused to deploy troops to Iraq until levels of DU were tested where the troops would be stationed. The US maintained that there was nothing to fear from DU exposure but the Dutch relented and the US did the necessary testing. I only followed this story for so long it appeared in international news sources about 6-7 months ago.
Even Saddam complained about the effects of DU to the citizens of Iraq. Somewhere there is a website containing pictures of Iraqi stillborn babies and odd never seen birth defects.
Do some googling there is plenty of info about DU.

[leesa]

3. Screening them for what? I mean, what are they going to do about it

after the exposure? They knew all about this before they sent these soldiers there...we knew about it the first time around.
This is Agent Orange re-dux. I took care of many of those who died of lymphoma about 5-10 years after their exposure in Vietnam. Our government denied it for decades.

[Ravy]

6. It goes away on its own...

after several BILLION YEARS.

[Dirty Hippie]

5. Why does he refer to Senator Clinton as Hillary?

(In the byline)

No other congressman or congress woman is referred to by first name only. It is disrespectful.

[deutsey]

8. It's the New York Daily News

It seems to be the style of the paper, i.e., it ain't going after the same demographics as the NYTimes...the paper seems to be better than a tabloid--I mean Juan Gonzalez is a great journalist, IMO--but it looks like it's appealing to a street-smart, working class sensibility. And "Hilary" is the way I've heard lots of people refer to the Senator and without disrespect. :shrug:

[wuushew]

9. Jimmy Carter is partially to blame for the abundance of Uranium 238

Unlike France and Japan the United States does not believe in building or operating breeder reactors that can convert nuclear waste into abundant electricty.

Our solution, bury it or cast it into tanks shells.