Hampton Branch Library
Stop the War
RECEIVED Wed., April 13, 2005
Letter to the editor,
Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, more than 56% today have permanent medical problems. In comparison, Vietnam vets in the same periods experienced 10% disability rates. The reason for this incredible and tragic increase of sick soldiers according to Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry, is the widespread use by the American military of depleted uranium in their shells. The “malady (from DU) that thousands of our military have suffered and died from has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing ... The terrible truth is now being revealed,” said Bernklau.
Today, in Iraq and Afghanistan the American military forces have used, and are using, DU in much larger quantities than were used in the first Gulf War. “The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence,” Bernklau said. Presently, tens of thousands of American and Coalition forces are being exposed while millions in Iraq and Afghanistan are having their homelands and families destroyed by this invisible poison.
The silence of the American people to this neo-con war is deafening, but remember; our silence will not protect us! I would encourage everyone to demand loudly and persistently to: Stop the war and bring our troops home now!
Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, more than 56% today have permanent medical problems. In comparison, Vietnam vets in the same periods experienced 10% disability rates. The reason for this incredible and tragic increase of sick soldiers according to Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry, is the widespread use by the American military of depleted uranium in their shells. The “malady (from DU) that thousands of our military have suffered and died from has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing ... The terrible truth is now being revealed,” said Bernklau.
Today, in Iraq and Afghanistan the American military forces have used, and are using, DU in much larger quantities than were used in the first Gulf War. “The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence,” Bernklau said. Presently, tens of thousands of American and Coalition forces are being exposed while millions in Iraq and Afghanistan are having their homelands and families destroyed by this invisible poison.
The silence of the American people to this neo-con war is deafening, but remember; our silence will not protect us! I would encourage everyone to demand loudly and persistently to: Stop the war and bring our troops home now!
Sincerely,
George Humphrey
George Humphrey