Heads roll at Veterans Administration (over DU scandal)

[donsu]

http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml




Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.

Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”

Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.”

He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.
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the bloody hands bushgang is waging nuclear wars and our troops are collateral damage.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. how dare you? Confusing people with real science. This admin NEVER reads

real science.

The idea of someone resigning out of a sense of honor, that is even more unheard of.

[donsu]

2. he was running away from DU crime as fast as he could

nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. He was running away from DU and you may see him on DU once

he regains his senses.... ya never know.....

[Trillo]

3. Why is this in "Preventive Psychiatry?"

I didn't know that psychiatry was medical specialty dealing with nuclear poisoning. My, my, I learn something new everyday.

Back in the 90s, if anyone wrote about this gulf war syndrome in the news it seemed the people involved were effectively skewered and silenced by skeptics.

[xchrom]

4. lol -- this is one story that may

actually get some real time teeth.