and then there's DU..

"Arbuthnot writes: "Death stalks Basra's children from the moment of birth. . . Cancer, leukemias, and malignancies have risen up to 70% since the Gulf War, increases linked to the depleted uranium weapons used primarily by the US and UK, leaving a radioactive dust throughout the country, which according to experts has entered the food chain via the water table and the soil. . . The unimaginable can also be found in Basra. One doctor's thesis compares abnormalities since the Gulf War with Hiroshima. Dr. Jenan Ali's photographs for 1998 show full term babies undeveloped, the 'bunch of grapes' syndrome reminiscent of the Pacific Islands after the 1950's nuclear testing. Others--no face, no eyes, twisted limbs, no limbs, no brain."



and the other side: gulf war syndrome II..

"Mr Keetch has written to Mr Hoon demanding clarification about the reports of multiple vaccinations being administered to soldiers. He has also written to the Speaker of the Commons requesting an urgent debate on the matter.

'It is unbelievable that the government may have made the same mistake again,' he said yesterday. 'Avoiding multiple vaccinations was a key lesson from the first Gulf war. These soldiers were in different regiments in different places. Either the defence secretary misled parliament or the MoD is incapable of following orders.'"

vaccines? you just wait for DU generation II



Child born to US veteran of Gulf War

"In November 1995, Life magazine ran an article titled 'Tiny Victims of Desert Storm,' which raised the possibility that DU was implicated in these children's otherwise unexplainable deformities. For those who had the heart to look, there were photos of the children of American soldiers, some with with no arms, no legs, or misplaced inner organs, some without thyroids, with two hearts or hearts on the wrong side, enlarged heads and abdomens, and abnormal blood vessels. A presidential panel recently absolved DU of any responsibility for the catastrophic health problems faced by thousands of veterans after the Gulf War. Its guess? Certain soldiers must have had a genetic predisposition. Why doesn't it surprise me that they blamed the victims?"

dirty dirty dirty!