21,000 Troops To Become The Latest Guinea Pigs For Pentagon

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In light of President Bush’s determination toand biological exposures from the 1992 demolition of
send an additional 21,000 plus troops to Iraq,Khamisiyah and similar massive bunker sites in Iraq
regardless of the position of Congress and thehave now been determined to have caused
American people, the citizens of the United Statespermanent neurological damage in over 300,000 Gulf
must be made aware of the ongoing experimentationWar veterans, who are now classified as
and outright disregard for our American troops. Withpermanently disabled by the VA. [10]
nearly thirty-six percent of our Gulf War I troopsDuring the Khamisiyah event, thousands of U.S.
disabled, we must hold those responsible for suchtroops were tasked with rigging hundreds of
negligence accountable for these atrocities."Wal-Mart sized" ammunitions bunkers with explosives
On January 10, 2007, President Bush unveiled hisin order to destroy physical evidence that countries
“New Way Forward in Iraq.” [1]  He admittedsuch as Great Britain, Russia, Jordan, and the United
that the American people find the present situation inStates had illegally sold weapons of mass destruction
Iraq unacceptable.  Yet, in spite of it all, he hasto the Iraqis.  U.S. servicemen working inside the
committed another 21,000 plus U.S. troops who willbunkers during the initial engineering phase captured
march off to Iraq to fight a corporate war thatfootage of these illegal weapons on videotape.  This
many Americans now perceive as being driven by bigfootage appears in the award-winning documentary
oil profits and industrial war profiteers.  Bush’s"Beyond Treason" [11] along with an impressive
“New Way Forward” will unavoidably translatenumber of other incriminating documents obtained
to an “Old Way Backward” for soldiersfrom the Pentagon under the Freedom of
deployed to the Persian Gulf.  By sending additionalInformation Act, which effectively describe the
soldiers to Iraq, the president of the United States isunlawful mindset and treasonous actions of some of
adding 21,000 names to the list of those afflictedour highest military leaders.
with depleted uranium poisoning due to simpleConceivably, the largest experiment of all was
environmental contamination.  Americans must comerequiring our servicemen and women to receive the
to understand that the Pentagon’s use ofexperimental anthrax vaccine.  During the first Gulf
radioactive weaponry on the battlefield over the pastWar, our service personnel were inoculated with
two decades is tantamount to officially sponsoredexperimental vaccines containing aluminum hydroxide,
involuntary human experimentation.mercury, and squalene.  It was done in hast and
Human experimentation by the United States militarywithout proper approval from the F.D.A.
complex is nothing new.  Declassified documentsU.S. Army Reserve Spc. Rachael Lacy, 22, is a
dating back six decades have exposed hundreds ofcasualty of the Pentagon’s compulsory
questionable and illegal programs sponsored by theanthrax vaccination program.  She died in 2003 after
Department of Defense.  It wasn’t until thereceiving the anthrax and smallpox inoculations. 
summer of 1975 that congressional hearings revealedAfter a coroner ruled that the shots contributed to
to the public for the first time that the C.I.A. and theher death, the Defense Department was finally
D.o.D. had conducted experiments on both consentingforced to admit that two independent panels of
and unwitting human subjects as part of anmedical experts had concluded that the vaccinations
extensive program to influence and control humancould very well have caused the illness that killed
behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs. Specialist Lacy.  According to the “Vaccine Risk
MKULTRA was just one of about 160 mind controlAwareness Network,” adverse reactions to the
programs that the United States government wasanthrax vaccine range from 40% in men to 70% in
sponsoring in the late 1950’s. [2]  Thesewomen and symptoms can range from severe bone
projects were only the tip of the iceberg.  Theand joint pain, to loss of vision, severe skin problems,
public would later learn of atomic vets exposed toblackouts and loss of consciousness, grand mal
radioactive atomic blasts [3]; the Tuskegee Syphilisseizures, internal organ problems, ALS, multiple
Study, in which 64% of the men “studied” diedsclerosis -- and death. [12]
from syphilis or complications arising thereof [4]; andPerhaps the most damaging law pertaining to
open air testing, where U.S. military were allowed toexperimentation on soldiers without informed consent
spray large U.S. cities with biological agents for thecomes under the Clinton administration in the form of
purpose of studying infection delivery patterns.E.O. 13139. [13] This Executive Order requires military
However, in 1991 the Department of Defense wouldpersonnel to receive experimental vaccines not
take mass experimentation to a whole new levelapproved by the F.D.A. and denies soldiers the right
with the introduction of depleted uranium (DU)to refuse experimental vaccines.  This law treats U.S.
munitions on the battlefield.  This bold decision wouldservicemen as if they were experimental guinea pigs
forever change the meaning of the term “nuclearwith no more rights than the average lab rat.  Past
war.”  It’s important to understand thatexperiments conducted at Fort Detrick chemical and
the Department of Defense was aware of thebiological warfare center in Maryland, showed that
deadly effects of radioactive weaponry and clearlynine of the twenty-seven anthrax strains tested killed
recommended its development as a “poison gas50 percent of the vaccinated subjects. [14]  With
warfare weapon” in a 1943 declassified Armythose kinds of odds, would you join the military
memo to Brigadier General L. R. Groves, known nowthese days?  To summarize, the U.S. Department of
simply as the "Groves Memorandum."  This is theDefense paid for the development and manufacture
earliest known reference to the weapons that wouldof DU weapons, which through their own research
later become the military’s number one choicewas known to be deadly to the very troops using
for killing tanks in the theatre of war. [5,6]them on the battlefield.  Our troops were knowingly
For almost two decades, on the rolling sand dunes ofexposed to deadly chemical and biological weapons in
Iraq, among the many strewn and shatteredthe theatre of operations during Operation Desert
remnants of destroyed enemy tanks, our troopsStorm.  They are inoculated with drugs that are
have continually inhaled air contaminated withknown to have serious and deadly side effects, none
microscopic radioactive dust particles from theof which have been approved by the F.D.A.  They
reckless and open use of depleted uraniumare told by the V.A. that they suffer from
munitions.  Dr. Doug Rokke, a US Army Healthposttraumatic stress disorder and prescribed
Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer,medications that deal solely with the symptoms and
whose team was in charge of battlefieldoffer no valid treatments for their illnesses.  Their
decontamination during the first Gulf War, states thatspouses and children are stricken by many of the
his team received direct memorandums from thesame debilitating symptoms and health problems, yet
Department of the Army and other Department ofthe Department of Defense continues to stonewall
Defense Officials, which plainly verified his ownand deny.
research; depleted uranium munitions were a seriousNow that we have a good understanding of all the
health threat due to contamination. [7]facts, what can we do?  Whether we scream this
Because of the Department of Defense's directfrom the rooftops for all to hear or bury our heads
concern over the health and environmental effectsfurther in the sand is the test by which all Americans
of DU, Dr. Rokke discloses that he was asked towill be measured.  Americans must take leadership
misrepresent his research and falsify an official reportroles in transforming this government into one that
so that uranium munitions could always be used onholds its leaders accountable for the crimes that they
the battlefield by U.S. forces.  According to his ownhave committed against the people of the United
research, and that performed by the ArmyStates and the global community at large.  How
Environmental Policy Institute [8], uranium munitionsmuch longer will the citizens of this country tolerate
cannot be cleaned up.  In fact, the United Nationsthe clear and present danger of our U.S. service
Sub-Commission on Human Rights ruled that uraniumpersonnel at the hands of the U.S. military
munitions are an illegal weapon because they killestablishment?  One thing is clear.  Officials at the
indiscriminately, they cannot be cleaned up, and theyDepartment of Defense are guilty of no less than
contaminate the environment for 4.5 billion years. [9]treason and should be prosecuted to the fullest
The intentions of our military leaders, past andextent of the law to serve as a warning to all future
present, are becoming all too clear for those whogenerations.  These actions will not be tolerated.
take the effort to observe these atrocities with"That whenever any Form of Government becomes
unfiltered eyes and yet Gulf War exposures do notdestructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
stop there.  On the battlefield of Iraq our servicePeople to alter or to abolish it and to institute new
personnel were exposed to chemical and biologicalGovernment, laying its foundation on such principles
weapons supplied to the Iraqis by the U.S. militaryand organizing its powers in such form, as to them
with the full blessing of our Congress.   Little knownshall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
to most Americans, and almost completelyHappiness.