Pentagon - Depleted Uranium No Health Risk
From Dr. Doug Rokke
3-15-3

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.

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.

The citizens of the world must hold each and every individual who shoots DU
munitions guilty of war crimes!!!

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.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD!
Dr. Doug Rokke 217-643-6205

DEPLETED URANIUM

By Dr. Doug Rokke, Major, USAR Former Gulf War I DU Team
Health Physicist and DU Project Director 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 least10000 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.

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 andorgan cancer,
(I) neuro-psychological disorders,
(j) uranium in semen,
(k) sexual dysfunction, and
(l) birth defects in offspring.

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".

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 bemost
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".

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!

As the Army's DU expert (1991-1995) my conclusions and recommendations
were that:

(1) All DU contamination must be removed and disposed of to
prevent future exposures.

(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.

(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.

(6) All individuals who may encounter DU must complete
specialized education and training.

Even though Department of Defense directives have required
medical care, education and training, and environmental remediation for
years:

(1) Medical care has not been provided to all DU casualties.

(2) Environmental remediation has not been completed.

(3) Contaminated and damaged equipment and materials have
been recycled to manufacture new products.

(4) Training and education has only been partially
implemented.

(5) Contamination management procedures have not been
distributed and implemented.

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.