Was watching a couple documentaries this past weekend. One on HBO about all of the depleted uranium that is being uncovered/discovered in the carnage over in Iraq. Kids were playing all over these destroyed tanks and the journalist was getting Geiger readings of 400 times the amount acceptable in the air. The machine was damn near going off the meter. The hospitals in Iraq said that people are being diagnosed with forms of cancers 7-10 times as high and more frequently than before the first gulf war. The shells used to pierce armor are uranium tipped to melt and pierce the tank and apc carriers, as are many types of munitions that the choppers and aircraft shot millions of rounds into the earth all over Iraq, currently affecting troops and local citizens of Iraq.
The other was a documentary was based on the first responders and people who saved lives at ground zero in NYC. Those people are dropping like flies and coming down with all sorts of weird lung diseases. The people who work in adjacent buildings to the trade center site were sent back to work not even a week later, while the cleanup was underway. 1000's are now sick with respiratory diseases.
These things are going to go many, many generations deeper than they are right now. 9-11 was also the beginning of a human condition. I really do feel for everyone affected by 9-11, I just wanted to say something about the things that I saw this weekend that haven't been brought up really, but are far more long term blood line affecting than the troops being there still, or the attack 6 years ago. This thing is a terrible travesty that we can never completely recover from.
The other was a documentary was based on the first responders and people who saved lives at ground zero in NYC. Those people are dropping like flies and coming down with all sorts of weird lung diseases. The people who work in adjacent buildings to the trade center site were sent back to work not even a week later, while the cleanup was underway. 1000's are now sick with respiratory diseases.
These things are going to go many, many generations deeper than they are right now. 9-11 was also the beginning of a human condition. I really do feel for everyone affected by 9-11, I just wanted to say something about the things that I saw this weekend that haven't been brought up really, but are far more long term blood line affecting than the troops being there still, or the attack 6 years ago. This thing is a terrible travesty that we can never completely recover from.
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