DEPLETED
URANIUM & BIRTH DEFECTS
by
Dr. Robert
M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.
www.rmbowman.com
By continuing to use depleted uranium (DU) armor and munitions, the Bush Pentagon
is waging radiological warfare against the unborn and indeed against all unborn
generations.
By now most people know that DU has damaged tens of thousands of our own troops and
caused soaring cancer rates in target populations, including the people of Iraq, Kosovo,
and Afghanistan. Over 130,000 veterans of the
first Gulf War have been declared “unfit for service” because of medical
conditions which independent scientists and physicians connect to exposure to depleted
uranium.
What is less well known is the staggering rate of birth defects in the children of
the veterans of these wars. The British are
reporting rates as high as 65%. It seems that
breathing in the radioactive dust from exploded DU shells not only causes decapacitating
illnesses, but massive genetic damage as well.
The use of DU was started by the first President Bush and continued by Clinton. Both could plead ignorance. But now the data is in. We know better.
The continued use of over 2,000 tons of this toxic and highly radioactive substance
in the current Iraq War is inexcusable.
The result will be countless civilian casualties, tens of thousands of our own
troops with respiratory problems, kidney damage, cancers, muscle damage, and other
debilitating conditions, and thousands of stillbirths and birth defects. It is particularly ironic that this is being done
by a supposedly pro-life administration.
We sincerely hope that this barbaric practice (which violates humanitarian law and
the Geneva conventions) will be halted by the next president,
and that the United States will take the lead in the difficult task of cleaning up the
radioactive debris and dust it has spread over much of the Middle East. And let’s NOT give the contract to
Halliburton!
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