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Depleted Uranium

Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Contamination, Depleted Uranium, Dirty Bomb Threats, Politics News
Dave Lindorff

While warning about the danger of terrorists acquiring the materials to make a "dirty" bomb, the US military has for years been doing exactly that, and continues to do so.

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General Petraeus Joins Troops Diagnosed With Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: 101st Airborne, Battalion, Troops, Burn Pits, Depleted Uranium, Iraq, 526 FSB, Baghdad, Cancer, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mosul, Walter Reed, Al Jazeera News, Babil Cancer Centre, Christopher Busby, Operation Purple Heart, Sharif Al-Alwachi, General David Petraeus, Shock and Awe, Kbr, Charles Lewis, Fran E. Stuart, Kellogg Brown & Root, World News
R. B. Stuart

In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...

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Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Iraqi and Afghani Babies Are No Joke

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Depleted Uranium, Afghanistan War, World News
Dave Lindorff

The deformed and dead babies in Iraq should make us demand a cleanup of Iraq and Afghanistan, medical aid for the victims, and a ban on all depleted uranium weapons.

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Obama Must Live Up to Campaign Pledge on Vieques Cleanup

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Lisa Jackson, Napalm, Vieques Puerto Rico, Alan Grayson, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Mercury Poisoning, Justice Department, Depleted Uranium, Eric Holder, Arsenic, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Bush Administration, Contamination, Sovereign Immunity, US Navy, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.

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Peace Rising

Robert Koehler | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Memorial Day, Vietnam War, Afghanistan, Birth Defects, Agent Orange, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Veterans, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Zak Wachtendonk, who died in March, a month after his 30th birthday, was the son of a Vietnam vet who had been exposed to Agent Orange.

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Iraq: Stories You May Have Missed

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Middle East, Iraq-Six-Year-Anniverary, Aig Bonuses, Arab Media, Aig, Media, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, World News
Jamal Dajani

After six years and more than 4,000 U.S. casualties, the Iraq War seems to have disappeared from the national conversation.

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Top Ten Alternate Punishments for the Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Warren Holstein | Posted 04.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Nike, Martin Scorsese, George W. Bush, Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, Nobel Peace Prize, Facebook, Depleted Uranium, Anger Management, Man Throws Shoes at Bush, Politics, Bush Shoe, Middle East, Daniel Day-Lewis, Op-Ed, Muntazer Al-Zaidi Throws Shoes at Bush, Iraq, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sweatshops, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

5. Obliged to lend his tootsies, at will, to any charitable Foot Fetish Galas (expected to show up in formal leather choker, spiked armlets and chain-link leash).

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Leukemia: A Soldiers Souvenir From the Burn Pits of Iraq

R. B. Stuart | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Journalists, Doctor, Troops, Colon Cancer, Lt. Col. James R. Elliott, Burn Pit, Cbs, Tb, Lt. Col. Darrin L. Curtis, Ed Bradley, Veterans, Dod, Embedded, Lung Cancer, Scholfield Barracks Hawaii, Leukemia, Military, Army, Peter Jennings, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Abc, Ted Kopple, Duke University Hospital, Depleted Uranium, Leroy Sievers, US Air Force, Soldiers, Balad Air Base Iraq, Fort Bragg NC, Aml, SSG. Steven G. Ochs, Baghdad, Afghanistan, Long Beach California, Dav, Carcinogen, Paratrooper, Anaconda, Health, Living News
R. B. Stuart

Although SSG. Steven Ochs seemed impenetrable, he could not sidestep the invisible weapon that would course through his bloodstream five months after his third tour ended.

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Fit For Duty: Proceed With Caution - Part II

R. B. Stuart | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Soldiers, Chemotherapy, Iraq, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Cancer, Chaplain, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Depleted Uranium, Health, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

My sister's cancer brought a roulette of abandonment and fears. The chemo compounded it by stripping away not only the cancer cells, but every living cell and organism that made up who she was.

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"Sister Soldier: A Chronicle of Life After Iraq" - Part I

R. B. Stuart | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: 101st Airborne, Germany, Soldiers, Military, Tumor, Chemotherapy, Iraq, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Depleted Uranium, Cancer, Chaplain, Mosul, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

My sister Fran's cancer appeared at the beginning of January. She felt tired, bloated, and had an unusual feeling of fullness, and immediately thought her term in Iraq was the culprit.

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The Disposable Military: "The Tumor of The Unknown Soldier"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cancer, National Guard, SPC Gregory Anton, War Wound, Army, U. S., Camp Doha, Congress, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Soldier, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

Recently, the Chaplains at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC who houses 800 ill and recovering soldiers at a time, has begun weekly tributes at...

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McKinney: "Leave the oil in the soil"

Grist | Kate Sheppard | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green News, Green, Cynthia McKinney, National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, Green Party, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Depleted Uranium, Green News

Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney sums up her energy policy with a simple, memorable rhyme: "Leave the oil in the soil." "Right now...

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The Unspoken Casualties of the Iraq War

R. B. Stuart | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Camp Spearhead, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Depleted Uranium, TSGLI Injury Benefits, Iraq, Soldiers, Nuclear Weapons, SS Frank Valentin, Health, Kuwait City, U. S. Army, Dept. Of Veterans Affairs, Arlington Cemetery, Cancer, Oaf, Oncology, Oif, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

A collage hangs on the wall of the 6th floor Oncology Ward 65 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Proudly amongst the staff photo's is the former P...

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Green Party Admits Soldiers Testing Positive to Depleted Uranium

R. B. Stuart | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Green Party Presidential Candidate, Squamous Cell, Camp Arijhan, Army Sergeant, The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, James H. Lauderdale Jr., Camp Doha, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Depleted Uranium, Arizona, Radiation, Casualty Affairs, Kuwait, U. S. Military, .Cancer, The American Red Cross Blood Program, Dixie Lauderdale, Cynthia McKinney, Nj, Iraq, Ft. Dix, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

While soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan are being exposed to the invisible radiological airborne dust, the Depleted Uranium issue fails to be raised by neither major political party.

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The War Chest: "Skeletons from the Battlefield"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: American's, Doe, Iraq War, Soldiers, Depleted Uranium, Bush, Wramc, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

The apathetic tone towards returning soldiers seems to be the status quo of a majority of Americans who have forfeited their backbone for the comforts of ignorance.

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The Weapon of Mass Destruction Is Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Depleted Uranium, Iraq Veterans, Veterans and Cancer, Iraq Cancer, Va, Uranium, Cancer Soldiers, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

With the DoD's denial that cancer is a "war wound," many soldiers are left inflicted with the life threatening illness, uncertain of their military careers and fearful of their own mortality.

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