Support Our Troops Demand Depleted Uranium Testing for Persian Gulf War/Iraq War Veterans

July 24, 2007 - Injured Iraq war veterans sue VA head - Frustrated by delays in health care, injured Iraq war veterans accused VA Secretary Jim Nicholson in a lawsuit of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
March 20, 2007 - Uranium and the War: The effects of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq - The U.S. Army revealed in March 2003 that it dropped between 320 and 390 tons of DU during the Gulf War—the first time the material was ever used in combat—and it is estimated that more still has been dropped during the current invasion, though there have been no official counts as yet.
Feb. 19, 2007 - Depleted Uranium: Pernicious Killer Keeps on Killing - The more questions raised, the more the military-industrial complex has hauled out studies showing the safety of DU munitions. One CEO called DU the "skim milk" of uranium in an article penned for my local paper. An Air Force officer is even stalking the internet, trying to intimidate anyone who suggests DU is anything but benign.

Sept. 8, 2006 - Depleted Uranium - Justice for G.I.s? - Three years after returning from Iraq with persistent ailments they believe were caused by inhaling uranium dust from exploded U.S. shells, a group of former New York National Guardsmen finally got their first day in court this week against the federal government.

March 9, 2006 - Depleted Uranium - U.S. Lung Cancer Rates Soar - On average there are 175,000 new cases of lung cancer each year in the United States. For just the months of January and February 2006 there are 172,000 confirmed, newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer.

March 7, 2006 - House Dems Call for Vets Care to be Included in Iraq Supplemental - Led by their most junior and senior Members on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Congressman John Salazar (D-CO) and Congressman Lane Evans (D-IL), House Democrats today moved to prevent a repeat of last year's shameful shortfall in funding for the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

May 12, 2005 - The Times-Picayune DOES NOT Support Depleted Uranium Testing - Peter Kovacs, the Managing News Editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the region's major daily newspaper, in a telephone conversation with veterans advocate Bob Smith, and a Times-Picayune political analyst stated that a story concerning a bill giving the right for service women and men from Louisiana to a best practices health-screening test for exposure to depleted uranium would not be published.
May 9, 2005 - Toxic Tours of Duty - During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Army officials assembled a team to clean up the DU contaminated tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. Most team members became sick within 48 hours, with the first cancers developing within nine months and first deaths from lung cancer within two years.

May 3, 2005 - Press Release: Louisiana State House of Representatives Passes Depleted Uranium Testing Bill - The Louisiana State House of Representatives passed a bill to give the right to all Louisiana Servicemen and women returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom for testing for depleted uranium contamination.

Apr. 22, 2005 - Press Release: Louisiana Activist Network - Depleted Uranium Awareness Committee. A bill will be introduced in the Louisiana State House of Representatives by Rep. Juan La Fonta of District 96 to give the right to all Louisiana Servicemen and women returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom for independent testing for depleted uranium contamination.

Apr. 5, 2004 - Depleted Uranium Alert - Demand DU Testing for Iraq War Veterans! A special investigation by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News has found four of nine soldiers of the 442nd Military Police Company of the New York Army National Guard returning from Iraq tested positive for depleted uranium contamination. They are the first confirmed cases of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the current Iraq conflict.

Depleted Uranium Litters Iraq - Iraq’s war zones are littered with depleted uranium (DU) bullets, shells and debris. DU is made of low-level radioactive nuclear waste, left over from the making of nuclear fuel and weapons.

April 2003 - Delpeted Uranium Alert - Stop the Madness! - Following their return home, Gulf war veterans have fathered children with devastating birth defects. “While there is, as yet, no absolute proof that Gulf vets’ babies are especially prone to congenital problems,” the Life article concluded, “patterns of defects have begun to emerge—patterns unlikely to result from chance alone.”

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