Below is a excerpt from the San Francisco chronicle, Robert Collier, Chronicle 
Staff Writer Monday,January 13, 2003 he interviewed Richard Clapp, below is the
text: 


“an epidemiologist at Boston University School of Public Health and one of
the few experts to investigate the DU-cancer relationship, is carrying out
a study of Gulf War diseases among Massachusetts veterans. His initial findings
suggest increased incidences of Hodgkin's disease in Gulf War veterans exposed
to DU, but no increases in other types of cancer. But Clapp cautions that
further comprehensive study is needed he wrote:

"The potential for a DU-cancer link (especially lung cancer in those who breathe 
DU through dust and smoke particles) is still an open question. I certainly would
not rule it out on biological grounds, and 'no proof of harm is not proof of no
harm,' as we say."

There is no doubt DU is dangerous. That is why german scientists
are limited to 50 millisivert per year. Anything above this and it is dangerous.
Why? Because Depleted Uranium has the ability to change DNA, and cause cancer,
it alters the cells glycocalyx and reeks havoc on the body.In 1991, the UK Atomic
Energy Authority warned that, if particles from merely 8 per cent of the DU used
in the Gulf were inhaled, there could be "300,000 potential deaths". 

Nato's ownguidelines include: 

"Inhalation of insoluble depleted uranium dust particles has been associated with
long-term health effects including cancers and birth defects." 

Which disorder you wind up with depends on where the DU winds up in your system
and what sort of damage it does to what sort of cells. To really find an effect,
the government would have to study all the veterans, especially the 205,000 that
have applied for medical help from the Veterans Administration, and the people of
southern Iraq and test for uranium in their urine, organs and bones, then look for
correlations with various pathologies. The problem with many government tests was
that they explicitly looked for Unranium deposits in ridiculous body samples. For 
example they would test for uranium on hair follicles, when they specifically
knew that urine was a definitive test, along with blood etc.

Extreme hydrocephalus; deformity of face, body and 
ear. The line running down the right hand side of the head would appear to show that potentially two heads were forming.
ever seen this in a non DU'ed country?


Below are some quotes from the US Army Environmental Policy Institute that show
that they knew and still are aware, of the dangers of DU: 

My responses are typed in red below:
"Soldiers may be incidentally exposed to DU from dust and smoke on the battlefield.
The Army Surgeon General has determined that it is unlikely that these soldiers
will receive a significant internal DU exposure. Medical follow-up is not
warranted for soldiers who experience incidental exposure from dust or smoke.

         My response to this highlighted line (wording of this highlighted sentence
         indicates some form of prior knowledge of the danger of exposure to DU dust. 
         If DU dust was never a danger there would never be any warranted need to
         medically examine soldier right?!) 

[...] Since DU weapons are openly available on the world arms market, DU weapons
will be used in future conflicts. 
         
         Logical thinking pattern used: “if everyone does
         it we will do it also” innocence through the disassociation of responsibility…
         still means you are guilty.  This does not stand in a court of law.

The number of DU patients on future battlefields probably will be significantly
higher because other countries will use systems containing DU.

         again, indirect acceptance of the dangers of DU

[...] DU is a low-level radioactive waste, and, therefore, must be disposed of
in a licensed  repository. [...] No international law, treaty, regulation,
or custom requires the United States to remediate the Persian Gulf war battlefields." 
Report by the US Army Environmental Policy Institute: 'Health and Consequences
of Depleted Uranium use in the US army', June 1995 

Severe hydrocephalus; again, almost as though two 
heads were being formed. what would you think if your wife gave birth to this?

"Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield 
could be significant with potential radiological and toxicological effects. 
[...] Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals are probably ground 
troops that re-enter a battlefield following the exchange of armour-piercing 
munitions…. Combat conditions will lead to the uncontrolled release of DU.
[...] The conditions of the battlefield, and the long term health risks to natives
and combat veterans may become issues in the acceptability of the continued use
of DU kinetic penetrators for military applications."
Excerpts from the July 1990 Science and Applications International Corporation
report: 'Kinetic Energy Penetrator Environment and Health Considerations',
as included in Appenix D - US Army Armaments, Munitions and Chemical Command
report: 'Kinetic Energy Penetrator Long Term Strategy Study, July 1990'

this quote shows that the USA was aware of the dangers of DU. With this knowledge, 
it is possible to make the conclusion that if military personnel were affected
so are Iraqi civilians. Countless stories of children playing with spent rounds and
blown up tanks are heard, and we have all seen the documentaries of scientists
walking around Iraqi cities with Geiger counters going of the charts. It’s easy to
make the deductive conclusions, DU when exploded turns to dust, Iraq is a sandy
dust bowl, people breath. Now is there any surprise in the rise in  birth defects
in children? DU doesn’t just disappear when it is used it has a half life of
4.5 million years.

Iraqi doctors say there are many cancer cases that are never reported to the government.

"In a small village, they will say a child is 'sick' and they will think it
has some passing illness and then it dies and is buried and we never hear about it,"
"Other families believe it wrong to admit they have cancer cases - in case it
affects the marriage prospects of their other children. So we may have far more
cases than we realise." 
source: Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 www.independent.co.uk/stories/B1410809.html
"WHO to investigate radiation fall-out from Gulf war in Iraq"
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad

There are websites out there that say that the death rates of Iraqi children is low,
that it is not high at all, that it is infact caused by the chemical warfare that Saddam did
(and the USA, turned their back on and pretended they didn't see) in late 80’s.
this is not true, and here is the data to support this:

In 2001, life expectancy at birth was reported to be 58.7 years for men and 
62.9 years for women. THIS IS VERY LOW AGE. The infant mortality rate for 2000/2001
was estimated at 98 per 1000 live births. 10.2 BIRTHS PER DEATH The mortality
rate for children under the age of five was estimated for 2001 to be 133 per 1000
live births. 7.3 BIRTHS PER DEATH Maternal mortality in 2001 was estimated at
291 per 100 000 live births.
Sources: WHO, UNICEF

In 2000, there were a total of 195 374 new cases of cancer (except skin) in 
both sexes and 126 677 deaths. Lung cancer was the most common cancer in males 
and in females the most common cancer was that of the breast.
Source: Globocan 2000 statistics.