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

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

by Saturday February 03, 2007 at 04:49 PM

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In light of President Bush’s determination to send an additional 21,000 plus

troops to Iraq, regardless of the position of Congress and the American people,

the citizens of the United States must be made aware of the ongoing

experimentation and outright disregard for our American troops. With nearly

thirty-six percent of our Gulf War I troops disabled, we must hold those

responsible for such negligence accountable for these atrocities.

On January 10, 2007, President Bush unveiled his “New Way Forward in Iraq.”

[1] He admitted that the American people find the present situation in Iraq

unacceptable. Yet, in spite of it all, he has committed another 21,000 plus U.S.

troops who will march off to Iraq to fight a corporate war that many Americans

now perceive as being driven by big oil profits and industrial war profiteers.

Bush’s “New Way Forward” will unavoidably translate to an “Old Way Backward” for

soldiers deployed to the Persian Gulf. By sending additional soldiers to Iraq,

the President of the United States is adding 21,000 names to the list of those

afflicted with depleted uranium poisoning due to simple environmental

contamination. Americans must come to understand that the Pentagon’s use of

radioactive weaponry on the battlefield over the past two decades is tantamount

to officially sponsored involuntary human experimentation.

Human experimentation by the United States military complex is nothing new.

Declassified documents dating back six decades have exposed hundreds of

questionable and illegal programs sponsored by the Department of Defense. It

wasn’t until the summer of 1975 that congressional hearings revealed to the

public, for the first time, that the C.I.A. and the D.o.D. had conducted

experiments on both consenting and unwitting human subjects as part of an

extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of

psychoactive drugs. MKULTRA was just one of about 160 mind control programs that

the United States government was sponsoring in the late 1950’s [2]. These

projects were only the tip of the iceberg. The public would later learn of

atomic vets exposed to radioactive atomic blasts [3]; the Tuskegee Syphilis

Study, in which 64% of the men “studied” died from syphilis or complications

arising thereof [4]; and open air testing, where U.S. military were allowed to

spray large U.S. cities with biological agents for the purpose of studying

infection delivery patterns.

However, in 1991 the Department of Defense would take mass experimentation to a

whole new level with the introduction of depleted uranium (DU) munitions on the

battlefield. This bold decision would forever change the meaning of the term

“nuclear war.” It is important to understand that the Department of Defense was

aware of the deadly effects of radioactive weaponry and clearly recommended its

development as a “poison gas warfare weapon” in a 1943 declassified Army memo to

Brigadier General L. R. Groves, known now simply as the " Groves Memorandum. "

This is the earliest known reference to the weapons that would later become the

military’s number one choice for killing tanks in the theatre of war. [5,6]

For almost two decades, on the rolling sand dunes of Iraq, among the many strewn

and shattered remnants of destroyed enemy tanks, our troops have continually

inhaled air contaminated with microscopic radioactive dust particles from the

reckless and open use of depleted uranium munitions. Dr. Doug Rokke, a US Army

Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer, whose team was in charge

of battlefield decontamination during the first Gulf War, states that his team

received direct memorandums from the Department of the Army and other Department

of Defense Officials, which plainly verified his own research; depleted uranium

munitions were a serious health threat due to contamination. [7]

Because of the Department of Defense's direct concern over the health and

environmental effects of DU, Dr. Rokke discloses that he was asked to

misrepresent his research and falsify an official report so that uranium

munitions could always be used on the battlefield by U.S. forces. According to

his own research, and that performed by the Army Environmental Policy Institute

[8], uranium munitions cannot be cleaned up. In fact, the United Nations

Sub-Commission on Human Rights ruled that uranium munitions are an illegal

weapon because they kill indiscriminately, they cannot be cleaned up, and they

contaminate the environment for 4.5 billion years. [9]

The intentions of our military leaders, past and present, are becoming all too

clear for those who take the effort to observe these atrocities with unfiltered

eyes, yet Gulf War exposures do not stop there. On the battlefield of Iraq our

service personnel were exposed to chemical and biological weapons supplied to

the Iraqis by the U.S. military with the full blessing of our Congress. Little

known to most Americans, and almost completely unreported in the mainstream

press, is that chemical and biological exposures from the 1992 demolition of

Khamisiyah and similar massive bunker sites in Iraq have now been determined to

have caused permanent neurological damage in over 300,000 Gulf War veterans, who

are now classified as permanently disabled by the VA. [10]

During the Khamisiyah event, thousands of U.S. troops were tasked with rigging

hundreds of " Wal-Mart sized " ammunitions bunkers with explosives in order to

destroy physical evidence that countries such as Great Britain, Russia, Jordan,

and the United States had illegally sold weapons of mass destruction to the

Iraqis. U.S. servicemen working inside the bunkers during the initial

engineering phase captured footage of these illegal weapons on videotape. This

footage appears in the award-winning documentary " Beyond Treason " [11] along

with an impressive number of other incriminating documents obtained from the

Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act, which effectively describe the

unlawful mindset and treasonous actions of some of our highest military leaders.

Conceivably, the largest experiment of all was requiring our servicemen and

women to receive the experimental anthrax vaccine. During the first Gulf War,

our service personnel were inoculated with experimental vaccines containing

aluminum hydroxide, mercury, and squalene. It was done in hast and without

proper approval from the F.D.A.

U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Lacy, 22, is a casualty of the Pentagon’s

compulsory anthrax vaccination program. She died in 2003 after receiving the

anthrax and smallpox inoculations. After a coroner ruled that the shots

contributed to her death, the Defense Department was finally forced to admit

that two independent panels of medical experts had concluded that the

vaccinations could very well have caused the illness that killed Specialist

Lacy. According to the “Vaccine Risk Awareness Network,” adverse reactions to

the anthrax vaccine range from 40% in men to 70% in women and symptoms can range

from severe bone and joint pain, to loss of vision, severe skin problems,

blackouts and loss of consciousness, grand mal seizures, internal organ

problems, ALS, multiple sclerosis -- and death. [12]

Perhaps the most damaging law pertaining to experimentation on soldiers without

informed consent comes under the Clinton administration in the form of E.O.

13139. [13] This Executive Order requires military personnel to receive

experimental vaccines not approved by the F.D.A. and denies soldiers the right

to refuse experimental vaccines. This law treats U.S. servicemen as if they were

experimental guinea pigs with no more rights than the average lab rat. Past

experiments conducted at Fort Detrick chemical and biological warfare center in

land, showed that nine of the twenty-seven anthrax strains tested killed 50

percent of the vaccinated subjects. [14] With those kinds of odds, would you

join the military these days?

To summarize, the U.S. Department of Defense paid for the development and

manufacture of DU weapons, which through their own research was known to be

deadly to the very troops using them on the battlefield. Our troops were

knowingly exposed to deadly chemical and biological weapons in the theatre of

operations during Operation Desert Storm. They are inoculated with drugs that

are known to have serious and deadly side effects, none of which have been

approved by the F.D.A. They are told by the V.A. that they suffer from

posttraumatic stress disorder and prescribed medications that deal solely with

the symptoms and offer no valid treatments for their illnesses. Their spouses

and children are stricken by many of the same debilitating symptoms and health

problems, yet the Department of Defense continues to stonewall and deny.

Now that we have a good understanding of all the facts, what can we do? Whether

we scream this from the rooftops for all to hear or bury our heads further in

the sand is the test by which all Americans will be measured. Americans must

take leadership roles in transforming this government into one that holds its

leaders accountable for the crimes that they have committed against the people

of the United States and the global community at large. How much longer will the

citizens of this country tolerate the clear and present danger of our U.S.

service personnel at the hands of the U.S. military establishment? One thing is

clear. Officials at the Department of Defense are guilty of no less than treason

and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to serve as a warning

to all future generations. These actions will not be tolerated.

" That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is

the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and to institute new

Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers

in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and

Happiness. " – Declaration of Independence

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html

[2] http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/index.htm

[3] http://www.naav.com/

[4] http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/time.htm

[5]

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/small/mb03.htm

[6] http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Trinity/Groves.shtml

[7] http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html

[8] http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/du.html

[9] http://nucnews.net/2000/du/99du/990831dw.htm

[10] http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/khamisiyah_ii/

[11] http://www.bridgestonemediagroup.com/beyondtreason.html

[12] http://www.vran.org

[13] http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/Testimony.pdf

[14] http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_15/ai_57770428

www.bridgestonemediagroup.com

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