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21,000 Troops To
Become The Latest Guinea Pigs For Pentagon On January 10, 2007,
President Bush unveiled his “New Way Forward in Iraq.” [1] He admitted
that the American people find the present situation in Iraq unacceptable.
Yet, in spite of it all, he has committed another 21,000 plus U.S. troops
who will march off to Iraq to fight a corporate war that many Americans
now perceive as being driven by big oil profits and industrial war
profiteers. Bush’s “New Way Forward” will unavoidably translate to an
“Old Way Backward” for soldiers deployed to the Persian Gulf. By sending
additional soldiers to Iraq, the president of the United States is adding
21,000 names to the list of those afflicted with depleted uranium
poisoning due to simple environmental contamination. Americans must come
to understand that the Pentagon’s use of radioactive weaponry on the
battlefield over the past two decades is tantamount to officially
sponsored involuntary human experimentation. Human experimentation by
the United States military complex is nothing new. Declassified documents
dating back six decades have exposed hundreds of questionable and illegal
programs sponsored by the Department of Defense. It wasn’t until the
summer of 1975 that congressional hearings revealed to the public for the
first time that the C.I.A. and the D.o.D. had conducted experiments on
both consenting and unwitting human subjects as part of an extensive
program to influence and control human behavior through the use of
psychoactive drugs. MKULTRA was just one of about 160 mind control
programs that the United States government was sponsoring in the late
1950’s. [2] These projects were only the tip of the iceberg. The public
would later learn of atomic vets exposed to radioactive atomic blasts [3];
the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which 64% of the men “studied” died from
syphilis or complications arising thereof [4]; and open air testing, where
U.S. military were allowed to spray large U.S. cities with biological
agents for the purpose of studying infection delivery patterns. However, in 1991 the
Department of Defense would take mass experimentation to a whole new level
with the introduction of depleted uranium (DU) munitions on the
battlefield. This bold decision would forever change the meaning of the
term “nuclear war.” It’s important to understand that the Department of
Defense was aware of the deadly effects of radioactive weaponry and
clearly recommended its development as a “poison gas warfare weapon” in a
1943 declassified Army memo to Brigadier General L. R. Groves, known now
simply as the "Groves Memorandum." This is the earliest known reference
to the weapons that would later become the military’s number one choice
for killing tanks in the theatre of war. [5,6] For almost two decades, on
the rolling sand dunes of Iraq, among the many strewn and shattered
remnants of destroyed enemy tanks, our troops have continually inhaled air
contaminated with microscopic radioactive dust particles from the reckless
and open use of depleted uranium munitions. Dr. Doug Rokke, a US Army
Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer, whose team was in
charge of battlefield decontamination during the first Gulf War, states
that his team received direct memorandums from the Department of the Army
and other Department of Defense Officials, which plainly verified his own
research; depleted uranium munitions were a serious health threat due to
contamination. [7] Because of the Department
of Defense's direct concern over the health and environmental effects of
DU, Dr. Rokke discloses that he was asked to misrepresent his research and
falsify an official report so that uranium munitions could always be used
on the battlefield by U.S. forces. According to his own research, and
that performed by the Army Environmental Policy Institute [8], uranium
munitions cannot be cleaned up. In fact, the United Nations
Sub-Commission on Human Rights ruled that uranium munitions are an illegal
weapon because they kill indiscriminately, they cannot be cleaned up, and
they contaminate the environment for 4.5 billion years. [9] The intentions of our
military leaders, past and present, are becoming all too clear for those
who take the effort to observe these atrocities with unfiltered eyes and
yet Gulf War exposures do not stop there. On the battlefield of Iraq our
service personnel were exposed to chemical and biological weapons supplied
to the Iraqis by the U.S. military with the full blessing of our
Congress. Little known to most Americans, and almost completely
unreported in the mainstream press, is that chemical and biological
exposures from the 1992 demolition of Khamisiyah and similar massive
bunker sites in Iraq have now been determined to have caused permanent
neurological damage in over 300,000 Gulf War veterans, who are now
classified as permanently disabled by the VA. [10] During the Khamisiyah
event, thousands of U.S. troops were tasked with rigging hundreds of
"Wal-Mart sized" ammunitions bunkers with explosives in order to destroy
physical evidence that countries such as Great Britain, Russia, Jordan,
and the United States had illegally sold weapons of mass destruction to
the Iraqis. U.S. servicemen working inside the bunkers during the initial
engineering phase captured footage of these illegal weapons on videotape.
This footage appears in the award-winning documentary "Beyond Treason"
[11] along with an impressive number of other incriminating documents
obtained from the Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act, which
effectively describe the unlawful mindset and treasonous actions of some
of our highest military leaders. Conceivably, the largest
experiment of all was requiring our servicemen and women to receive the
experimental anthrax vaccine. During the first Gulf War, our service
personnel were inoculated with experimental vaccines containing aluminum
hydroxide, mercury, and squalene. It was done in hast and without proper
approval from the F.D.A. U.S. Army Reserve Spc.
Rachael Lacy, 22, is a casualty of the Pentagon’s compulsory anthrax
vaccination program. She died in 2003 after receiving the anthrax and
smallpox inoculations. After a coroner ruled that the shots contributed
to her death, the Defense Department was finally forced to admit that two
independent panels of medical experts had concluded that the vaccinations
could very well have caused the illness that killed Specialist Lacy.
According to the “Vaccine Risk Awareness Network,”
adverse reactions to the anthrax vaccine range
from 40% in men to 70% in women and symptoms can range from severe bone
and joint pain, to loss of vision, severe skin problems, blackouts and
loss of consciousness, grand mal seizures, internal organ problems, ALS,
multiple sclerosis -- and death. [12] Perhaps the most damaging
law pertaining to experimentation on soldiers without informed consent
comes under the Clinton administration in the form of E.O. 13139. [13]
This Executive Order requires
military personnel to receive experimental vaccines not approved by the
F.D.A. and
denies soldiers the right to refuse
experimental vaccines. This law treats U.S. servicemen as if they were
experimental guinea pigs with no more rights than the average lab rat.
Past experiments conducted at Fort Detrick chemical and biological warfare
center in Maryland, showed that nine of the twenty-seven anthrax strains
tested killed 50 percent of the vaccinated subjects.
[14] With those kinds of
odds, would you join the military these days? Now that we have a good
understanding of all the facts, what can we do? Whether we scream this
from the rooftops for all to hear or bury our heads further in the sand is
the test by which all Americans will be measured. Americans must take
leadership roles in transforming this government into one that holds its
leaders accountable for the crimes that they have committed against the
people of the United States and the global community at large. How much
longer will the citizens of this country tolerate the clear and present
danger of our U.S. service personnel at the hands of the U.S. military
establishment? One thing is clear. Officials at the Department of
Defense are guilty of no less than treason and should be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law to serve as a warning to all future
generations. These actions will not be tolerated. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Endnotes:
[1]
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html
[2]
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/index.htm
[3]
www.naav.com/
[4]
www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/time.htm
[5]
www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/small/mb03.htm
[6]
www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Trinity/Groves.shtml
[7]
www.traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html
[8]
www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/du.html
[9]
http://nucnews.net/2000/du/99du/990831dw.htm
[10]
www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_ii/
[11]
www.bridgestonemediagroup.com/beyondtreason.html
[12]
www.vran.org
[13]
www.anthraxvaccine.org/Testimony.pdf
[14]
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_15/ai_57770428
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