Today is a good day to remember LUNG DISEASE and people cursed with DEFORMED BABIES!
 

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.

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Sad post .... =(

Never thought about that but thats terrible

It was worth it for a chance to get some of the worlds last oil.... bah :(

The one person I know who was in the thick of things that day hasn't worked a day since, is on disability, and has chronic lung issues. He'd gladly give back the $750k settlement he got in order to feel like normal again.

it's a terrible dilemna.

You made some really good points, and sadly to say this isnt the end of it, unfortunalty i'm sure there will be alot more bad news to come

sad but true folks. catch that hbo documentary. its pretty scary. a lot of americans are gonna suffer many many generations into their bloodlines because our troops are fighting in a radioactive environment. terrible.

that should be enough information to make the government, wake up and pull out now!!! terrible disaster!

that should be enough information to make the government, wake up and pull out now!!! terrible disaster!

its all so fucked up.

What's the dilemma? That the government doesn't take care of its citizens?

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Yes Airek, it's true... some American families will be affected for generations, and that certainly is sad. Perhaps if their family members weren't on the other side of the world destroying an entire region and decimating it's population in the name of American business interests those families might be somewhat less affected?

Perhaps we could also spare a thought for the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi's, and the millions still alive in that part of the world who are now attempting to survive in a virtually uninhabitable radioactive wasteland?


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I thought that using depleted uranium in amunition was banned, so why is the USA still using it

thanks for posting bud. i hope this thread made us realize how lucky we are. we should appreciate every good things that happens to us.