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Rebuttal To Support For DU Use |
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by Dr. Doug Rokke
Email: dlind49 (nospam) aol.com (unverified!) |
13 Oct 2002
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This is a RESPONSE TO REV. LAMBERT and THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD regarding Rev Lamberts support for DU use. : |
Subj: Re: [Gulf-Chat] - Message for citizens of the world
Date: 10/12/02 4:04:57 PM Central Daylight Time
From: doc (at) hiksos.com (Rev. George A, Lambert)
To: Dlind49 (at) aol.com
CC: gulf-chat (at) rhyder.net (Gulf-Chat Mailing List)
To Whom it may concern;
Contrary to Popular Opinion and Popular Misperception, DU is a Viable and effective Weapon against Tanks and other hardened weapon systems and the Lives and Safety of many of our military personnel may depend upon their effective
utilization.
Always,
The RevDoc
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MY RESPONSE TO REV. LAMBERT and THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD:
Yes, DU is an extremely effective weapon against both "hard" and "soft" targets. Although, it is an effective weapon the health effects of exposure in those who use it and those who are hit by it, the difficulty of cleaning up the contaminated wreckage, and the long term permanent contamination unless the uranium contamination is physically removed make DU an unacceptable weapon. As to the necessity for using this weapon, tungsten or conventional high explosive rounds are just as effective and do not leave the unmanageable contamination and chronic health effects. As to saving lives, the confirmed increasing U.S. casualty rates, 221502 sick and/or injured and 10324 deaths which are confirmed as VA service connected are in part due to the extensive exposure to depleted uranium contamination during Gulf War I and since then within that region coupled with the "denials" of required and ordered medical care that is still occurring in U.S. friendly fire casualties, the 3rd U.S. Army's Desert Storm Depleted Uranium team, British friendly fire casualties, and a thousands of children, women, and men (especially of Vieques, Puerto Rico) who were exposed to DU contamination make DU an unacceptable weapon. When I was given responsibility for DU clean up during the Gulf War by order of General Schwartzkopf, asked to help prepare the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute Report [The Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium (DU) Use] , and then as the Army's Depleted Uranium project director I went into these tasks initially as a supporter of depleted uranium munitions use. What I learned about DU use, clean up, contamination, and the adverse health effects that I and others have incurred as a consequence of our own exposure to DU contamination during the Gulf war and consequent research forced me to make an ethical choice based on real world experience and years of scientific research to urge that "DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS ARE NEVER USED AGAIN". As disabled veteran who fought in both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and as a military officer who is still serving our nation and it's warriors 34 years since I was sworn in during 1967, I am not in the least reluctant about using whatever methods are necessary to win a justifiable battle or war. I AM VERY CONCERNED MY THOSE WHO ADVOCATE DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS USE WHEN THEY NEVER HAD TO CLEAN UP THE BODIES "CRISPY CRITTERS", THE SURVIVING CASUALTIES, CLEAN UP ETERNAL CONTAMINATION, AND FIGHT FOR MEDICAL CARE. We cannot legally dispose of even 1 pound of solid depleted uranium which is actually uranium 238 contaminated with plutonium, neptunium, and americium any place in the United States without going to jail. Yet U.S. military personnel willfully dispersed and left over 350 tons in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, approximately 50 tons in the Balkans, an unknown amount all over Vieques, Puerto Rico (U.S. land thus affecting U.S. citizens), and an unknown amount on Okinawa then refused to provide medical care as required by U.S medical directives to all who were exposed and refused to clean up the contamination as specified by DoD and Army regulations. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE: "THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS IS A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND HUMANITY". I did not come to that conclusion easily, but, only after years of experience that I acquired because the U.S. Army and Pentagon officials ordered me to clean up the depleted uranium mess. Sometimes even warriors have to make a choice. Today, the choice is urgent and simple- NEVER USE DU AGAIN!!!
I ask all who receive this message to post it, publish it, and distribute it. We must do what is right for God and to protect all citizens of the world.
Thank you,
Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
Major, U.S. Army Reserve
American warrior and patriot |
See also:
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/7954/index.php
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