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

On January 10, 2007, President Bush unveiled his				over 300,000 Gulf War veterans, who are now
"New Way Forward in Iraq." [1] He admitted that				classified as permanently disabled by the VA. [10]
the American people find the present situation in				During the Khamisiyah event, thousands of U.S.
Iraq unacceptable. Yet, in spite of it all, he has				troops were tasked with rigging hundreds of
committed another 21,000 plus U.S. troops who				"Wal-Mart sized" ammunitions bunkers with
will march off to Iraq to fight a corporate war				explosives in order to destroy physical evidence
that many Americans now perceive as being				that countries such as Great Britain, Russia,
driven by big oil profits and industrial war				Jordan, and the United States had illegally sold
profiteers. Bush's "New Way Forward" will				weapons of mass destruction to the Iraqis. U.S.
unavoidably translate to an "Old Way Backward"				servicemen working inside the bunkers during the
for soldiers deployed to the Persian Gulf. By				initial engineering phase captured footage of these
sending additional soldiers to Iraq, the president of				illegal weapons on videotape. This footage appears
the United States is adding 21,000 names to the				in the award-winning documentary "Beyond
list of those afflicted with depleted uranium				Treason" [11] along with an impressive number of
poisoning due to simple environmental				other incriminating documents obtained from the
contamination. Americans must come to				Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act,
understand that the Pentagon's use of radioactive				which effectively describe the unlawful mindset
weaponry on the battlefield over the past two				and treasonous actions of some of our highest
decades is tantamount to officially sponsored				military leaders.
involuntary human experimentation.				Conceivably, the largest experiment of all was
Human experimentation by the United States				requiring our servicemen and women to receive
military complex is nothing new. Declassified				the experimental anthrax vaccine. During the first
documents dating back six decades have				Gulf War, our service personnel were inoculated
exposed hundreds of questionable and illegal				with experimental vaccines containing aluminum
programs sponsored by the Department of				hydroxide, mercury, and squalene. It was done in
Defense. It wasn't until the summer of 1975 that				hast and without proper approval from the F.D.A.
congressional hearings revealed to the public for				U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Rachael Lacy, 22, is a
the first time that the C.I.A. and the D.o.D. had				casualty of the Pentagon's compulsory anthrax
conducted experiments on both consenting and				vaccination program. She died in 2003 after
unwitting human subjects as part of an extensive				receiving the anthrax and smallpox inoculations.
program to influence and control human behavior				After a coroner ruled that the shots contributed
through the use of psychoactive drugs. MKULTRA				to her death, the Defense Department was finally
was just one of about 160 mind control programs				forced to admit that two independent panels of
that the United States government was				medical experts had concluded that the
sponsoring in the late 1950's. [2] These projects				vaccinations could very well have caused the
were only the tip of the iceberg. The public would				illness that killed Specialist Lacy. According to the
later learn of atomic vets exposed to radioactive				"Vaccine Risk Awareness Network," adverse
atomic blasts [3]; the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in				reactions to the anthrax vaccine range from 40%
which 64% of the men "studied" died from				in men to 70% in women and symptoms can
syphilis or complications arising thereof [4]; and				range from severe bone and joint pain, to loss of
open air testing, where U.S. military were allowed				vision, severe skin problems, blackouts and loss of
to spray large U.S. cities with biological agents for				consciousness, grand mal seizures, internal organ
the purpose of studying infection delivery				problems, ALS, multiple sclerosis -- and death. [12]
patterns.				Perhaps the most damaging law pertaining to
However, in 1991 the Department of Defense				experimentation on soldiers without informed
would take mass experimentation to a whole new				consent comes under the Clinton administration in
level with the introduction of depleted uranium				the form of E.O. 13139. [13] This Executive Order
(DU) munitions on the battlefield. This bold decision				requires military personnel to receive experimental
would forever change the meaning of the term				vaccines not approved by the F.D.A. and denies
"nuclear war." It's important to understand that				soldiers the right to refuse experimental vaccines.
the Department of Defense was aware of the				This law treats U.S. servicemen as if they were
deadly effects of radioactive weaponry and				experimental guinea pigs with no more rights than
clearly recommended its development as a				the average lab rat. Past experiments conducted
"poison gas warfare weapon" in a 1943				at Fort Detrick chemical and biological warfare
declassified Army memo to Brigadier General L. R.				center in Maryland, showed that nine of the
Groves, known now simply as the "Groves				twenty-seven anthrax strains tested killed 50
Memorandum." This is the earliest known				percent of the vaccinated subjects. [14] With
reference to the weapons that would later				those kinds of odds, would you join the military
become the military's number one choice for killing				these days?
tanks in the theatre of war. [5,6]				To summarize, the U.S. Department of Defense
For almost two decades, on the rolling sand dunes				paid for the development and manufacture of DU
of Iraq, among the many strewn and shattered				weapons, which through their own research was
remnants of destroyed enemy tanks, our troops				known to be deadly to the very troops using
have continually inhaled air contaminated with				them on the battlefield. Our troops were
microscopic radioactive dust particles from the				knowingly exposed to deadly chemical and
reckless and open use of depleted uranium				biological weapons in the theatre of operations
munitions. Dr. Doug Rokke, a US Army Health				during Operation Desert Storm. They are
Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer,				inoculated with drugs that are known to have
whose team was in charge of battlefield				serious and deadly side effects, none of which
decontamination during the first Gulf War, states				have been approved by the F.D.A. They are told
that his team received direct memorandums				by the V.A. that they suffer from posttraumatic
from the Department of the Army and other				stress disorder and prescribed medications that
Department of Defense Officials, which plainly				deal solely with the symptoms and offer no valid
verified his own research; depleted uranium				treatments for their illnesses. Their spouses and
munitions were a serious health threat due to				children are stricken by many of the same
contamination. [7]				debilitating symptoms and health problems, yet
Because of the Department of Defense's direct				the Department of Defense continues to
concern over the health and environmental				stonewall and deny.
effects of DU, Dr. Rokke discloses that he was				Now that we have a good understanding of all the
asked to misrepresent his research and falsify an				facts, what can we do? Whether we scream this
official report so that uranium munitions could				from the rooftops for all to hear or bury our
always be used on the battlefield by U.S. forces.				heads further in the sand is the test by which all
According to his own research, and that				Americans will be measured. Americans must take
performed by the Army Environmental Policy				leadership roles in transforming this government
Institute [8], uranium munitions cannot be cleaned				into one that holds its leaders accountable for the
up. In fact, the United Nations Sub-Commission on				crimes that they have committed against the
Human Rights ruled that uranium munitions are an				people of the United States and the global
illegal weapon because they kill indiscriminately,				community at large. How much longer will the
they cannot be cleaned up, and they contaminate				citizens of this country tolerate the clear and
the environment for 4.5 billion years. [9]				present danger of our U.S. service personnel at
The intentions of our military leaders, past and				the hands of the U.S. military establishment? One
present, are becoming all too clear for those who				thing is clear. Officials at the Department of
take the effort to observe these atrocities with				Defense are guilty of no less than treason and
unfiltered eyes and yet Gulf War exposures do				should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
not stop there. On the battlefield of Iraq our				law to serve as a warning to all future
service personnel were exposed to chemical and				generations. These actions will not be tolerated.
biological weapons supplied to the Iraqis by the				"That whenever any Form of Government
U.S. military with the full blessing of our Congress.				becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right
Little known to most Americans, and almost				of the People to alter or to abolish it and to
completely unreported in the mainstream press, is				institute new Government, laying its foundation on
that chemical and biological exposures from the				such principles and organizing its powers in such
1992 demolition of Khamisiyah and similar massive				form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
bunker sites in Iraq have now been determined to				their Safety and Happiness.
have caused permanent neurological damage in

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