...We learned about soldiers becoming sick from depleted uranium from a book published in Japan, Hibakusha Ni Natta Iraq Kikanhei (Returning Iraq Soldiers become Hibakusha). After many telephone calls Sueko was able to set up an appointment with Anthony at his house in Middletown, New York. He continued by saying, "I didn't know what was going on and I got in touch with one of my soldiers, Sergant Ramos, and he's the one that was having the same similar problems I was having, the headaches, the headaches were BAD. Ahhh, I don't believe my headaches. And I said, 'Something doesn't seem right.' And then he made a couple of phone calls and then that's how we ended up getting tested for depleted uranium. And it came back positive, and the symptoms we were having are because of depleted uranium.".When asked how well the Army took care of him and others, he said:"But when we went to the Army with our tests and said, Listen can you test us for this, and they says there's no test available; we don't test soldiers for that...But Anthony began to find there were more and more soldiers coming back with the same problems who managed to get tested and found to be positive for uranium 236...
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Human Cost of War: Anthony Phillip
US soldier becomes hibakusha
David McLane
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Anthony Phillip
©2008 David McLane
June 22, 2008
"I was feeling sick, really weak, and I had blood in my urine and I didn't know what was going on, and I went to the doctor at Walter Reed Army Hospital and they were telling me it was combat fatigue, you're just tired, you just need to relax and you'll be fine. And I said, No, it's more than that, you know, I had rashes on my back, a lot of rashes on my back. I was so weak I couldn't stand up straight." -- Anthony Phillip
Last spring, my partner/wife, Sueko, and I were asked to accompany a reporter from a major news organization in Japan on a trip across the US to gather material for a series of articles tentatively titled "The Human Cost of War." She was coordinator and I was photographer.
We learned about soldiers becoming sick from depleted uranium from a book published in Japan, Hibakusha Ni Natta Iraq Kikanhei (Returning Iraq Soldiers become Hibakusha). After many telephone calls Sueko was able to set up an appointment with Anthony at his house in Middletown, New York.
He continued by saying, "I didn't know what was going on and I got in touch with one of my soldiers, Sergant Ramos, and he's the one that was having the same similar problems I was having, the headaches, the headaches were BAD. Ahhh, I don't believe my headaches. And I said, 'Something doesn't seem right.' And then he made a couple of phone calls and then that's how we ended up getting tested for depleted uranium. And it came back positive, and the symptoms we were having are because of depleted uranium."
When asked how well the Army took care of him and others, he said:"But when we went to the Army with our tests and said, Listen can you test us for this, and they says there's no test available; we don't test soldiers for that. And then we went to this newspaper and the newspaper put up everything. And then the Army said, Come back, we'll test you, but we don't have, you can't file, we don't recommend it, we don't acknowledge it, because it's not that, it's something else." But Anthony began to find there were more and more soldiers coming back with the same problems who managed to get tested and found to be positive for uranium 236.
According to Anthony, "The only way you could get uranium 236 in your body is, how could you get that, when I asked the military, a colonel, at Walter Reed, I said, How could you get uranium 236 in your body. He said the only way you could get that is if you worked in a chemical plant, that's the only way you could get that. There's no other way you could get it. And I said, Well, I was not in a chemical plant in Iraq. But the military doesn't test you for uranium 236, it tests you for uranium 238. They don't test you for uranium 236 at all."
"The state [New York] has just passed new laws so others coming back from Iraq can get tested too. The military doesn't test you but each state has their own laws so when their soldiers come back they can get tested by their own state, because they feel depleted uranium is really bad; it should be banned."
"I've still got the weak legs, I've still got the migraine headaches, I've got pills, I'm going to show you all the medications are out on a table and I sleep with a machine at night time to help me breathe, because I stop breathing at night time. They gave me a machine; when I stop breathing it gives me air. And the rashes, they give me medications for the rashes. They give me cream, two kinds of cream to put on my back. Plus I take a pill for the rashes."
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 | | | | | | ©2008 David McLane | | Anthony joined the New York State Army National Guard in 1999 and went one weekend a month and two weeks a year for training. He's originally from Trinidad and came to the United States in 1984.
When asked why he joined the military he said, "They give you so much here I wanted to give to the country back because I had a lot of freedom and a lot of things I didn't have in Trinidad so I joined to say Thank you." He only became a citizen when he came back from Iraq. Although he's considered 90 percent disabled, he works as a supermarket market manager about an hour's drive from his home and has applied for 100 percent disability.
On the day we talked with him, he had just come back from work and was wearing a "Go Army" tie pin and there were more than a dozen photos of him in Iraq lining the wall of the staircase that led from the front door to the living room.
 | | | | | | ©2008 Anthony Phillip | | He said that he had no problems before going to Iraq or when he was there; they all started when he came back. He seemed more wistful than angry when he said, "When we went to Iraq they didn't train us, they didn't teach us anything, they didn't show us, we didn't know anything. So when something happened and we drove next to a blown-up tank or building we would touch everything; nobody told us anything. We didn't know!
"Then we came back and there is a training video. They said they showed everybody a training video before they go to Iraq. They never showed ME a training video!"
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| Comment by neipster_john - 23 Jun 2008 - 22:17 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Some things don't change--surprise-surprise!
The same government that denied Agent Orange was a problem 40 years ago, is doin g the same thing today with dangers far worse.
And why? Same as ever--just follow the money.
If the US (also other DU users like UK and Israel) were to admit either/any of t heir obviously illegal actions, not only would they have to pay for soldiers'/wi dows'/dependents' compensation/loss, the world would demand compensation to the nations polluted in the process.
And that would bankrupt/end US (and other) imperialism.
End of story--you can all go back to sleep now.
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| Comment by michaelm - 25 Jun 2008 - 04:45 [REGISTERED USER] | "The enrichment process also creates small quantities of the man-made isotopes U 236 and plutonium (Pu239). These isotopes are included in the “depleted” uranium mass as it is too expensive to extract them.". ??????umrc.net/du_and_ndu.aspx
The colonel at the Walter Reed was being disingenuous when he said that you can only get U236 if you worked in a chemical plant.
But, from the above, not just any old chemical plant, it would seem. It would pr oduce uranium hexafluoride, which is gas, and that would involve the setting up of a dedicated chemical plant and not one that switches to making fertilizer or rubber or plastics or paint or - you get the idea, as the need arises.
But then, what could the colonel say, and not get replaced ?
And why didn't the private lab test for Pu239 in his urine ? Had it done so, wha t could the colonel then have said ? Nothing, as no one is puzzled as to its ori gin. No one.
So, as testing for U236 is a waste of time as it allows dissembling on the part of colonels and such, i come back to the question of why the merry go round by t he private lab in not instead going after the marker - Pu239 - which everyone un derstands immediately as having its origin in the processing of uranium ? |
| Comment by michaelm - 25 Jun 2008 - 04:51 [REGISTERED USER] | | I didn't put in those 6 question marks after that quote. Must have something to do with dicky software. While i'm here, how come words often get a space dropped into them ? |
| Comment by pythagorus - 20 Jul 2008 - 02:42 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Well..the ultimate illusion is the USA/Israel New World Order. America doesn't just "have" Hollywood it IS Hollywood. It believes its own concoctions just as a sales rep. for say "telephone churning" believes the lies he tells anyone so he can gain an advantage of them and he in turn is lied-to by his employer to be a rmed with the lies to tell the public they wish to rort.
Tragically those of us who read URUK will each be noted by our computer IP. Ever ything we write is perused at the very least, by the American spy programme "Ech elon". This is the price we pay to try to ensure freedom and decency and at leas t some way the voice of the oppressed can be propagated...Jesus mused that he wa s 'a voice crying in the wilderness", he said in effect "you see the fulfilment of the signs of the coming of the seasons and yet you do not seem to see the fulfilment of the signs of the coming of man"
There is no doubt some of what is in URUK is not true and some is planted by peo ple posing as idiots, such as "Wizard". You and I are condemned as "anti america n" simply by seeking truth.Personally I don't care....whilst there are fantastic Americans and a most generous and decent undercurrent in some areas, America th e institution is rotten to the core and has shown it since its conception.
This is understandable as America is built right from the first brick on the gre at deceiver, the illusionist, Freemasonry. Whilst not subscribing to hysterical outbursts on so called "Christian" sites, there is no doubt that freemasonry is the great deceiver...freemasons who protest it "isn't" are an example of it. Fre emasonry's view of the world, the New World order has now well shown the "illuminati" is able to be now linked into it and so is Zionism. Each of those three is beyond control without the great mass of the public taking control of government...that is, the apocolyptic Armaggeddon.We left it all too late...seduced by Hollywood.
The happening of 911 itself is highly suspect.In the aftermath, rapidly the "evi dence" and concern about the so called attack on the Pentagon disappeared never to be raised again. It was so obvious no plane was the cause that it had to be b uried. Another plane supposedly crash landed elsewhere disappeared never to be heard of again. The entire focus had to be directed to "911" because this was the event which would convince the American public it was under attack, permit Bush to meet his primary agenda dictated by his masters. In fact no other attack ever took place,no other attack was ever likely to take place however anthrax,according to reports, was sent here and there around the country ..supposedly eminating from a Laboratory..where Iraq"?, No....Iran??...Nooo..Cuba???...Noooo...
where then???? well how about a laboratory in USA!Yeeees!
Why does it not occur to more people that a government, run by freemasonry, whic h has for years used the Mafia to assist in obtaining crucial presidential votes is likely to be deeply compromised? It is committed to violence and murder as a final solution to all interior and exterior problems.There appears to now be ab undant evidence that Pearl Harbour was a sacrifice of men and worn out ships to bring USA into the war for its own advantage. In the meantime countries with far less money and materials had fought themselves into bankruptcy and done the great but awful deeds of WW11.
Then later came the unforgivable...the bombings of Dresden and Berlin...like Nag asaki and Hiroshima this was no less than the most vile of human savagery. I sup pose from a country which had soldiers who scalped indians but then purported it was the other way around...after the Indians, the Iraqis of America, decided t o "pay back". America, like Israel, is so enmeshed in lies it really doesn't care anymore about truth and lies and as can be seen now. They kill as they please, entire families, protestors, children, leaders, clergy, reporters and those they kill leave behind the other shattered wrecks of impoverished, shocked shattered, maimed and raped and tortured men women and children turning to crime and prostitution to survive physically if not mentally.
Remember the old man in "Hud"...who said so effectively "you are an unprincipled man Hud"..well that is the same as the American/Israeli conspiracy...as is the venom of Lee J Cobb saying "Ohh....you rotten man" ...that also or the memorabl e words from 'The Usual Suspects...a quote from earlier times, "The greatest tri ck the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"...
I don't have any time at all for Mohammedan, Jewish or Christian extremism,or e ven their belief they are here to proseltyse...we'd all be better off if they'd get on with perfecting THEMSELVES. To me they are all tarred with the sulphurus black goo of opportunistically or perhaps lame-brainedly or dully believing tha t "god" is the in truth the man made illusion, the fantasy, residing in the jewish book of facts and f |
| Comment by pythagorus - 20 Jul 2008 - 02:49 [USER NOT REGISTERED] |
Part 2
To me they are all tarred with the sulphurus black goo of opportunistically or p erhaps lame-brainedly or dully believing that "god" is the in truth the man made illusion, the fantasy, residing in the jewish book of facts and fables.This see ms to be an unquestioned mesmerism which has led to the deaths of millions.
Notwithstanding that, there was one special man of all who came to help. It wasn 't te Dalai Lama or Buddah or Mr Moon nor was it Certainly wasn't Mohammed or Ab raham who came to teach us how to live in peace.
This one was against war and blood sacrifice and killing ...remember?..so he is always left out of the war equation, especially by "Christians" like Bush and h is religious advisers. His avisors are mostly lobbyists of the masonic lodge wh ich worships "a supreme being"....said by some to be called the templars' Baphom et..but its design architecture is around Baal and their goat symbolism and ancient "illuminati" concepts.
When they want to kill mercilessly whatever individual or group or hundreds of thousands he wishes, they wish they turn to "god" as an excuse for justifcation rather than simply clean up their own act.
These Mohammedan worshipping, tiem hardened Jewish illusionists and Masonic liar s influenced from birth, by virtue of its control of culture, and he Christian hypocrites and murderers turn to "god"...the man made obelisque to deception and misery to rest their consciences easily when reverting to the most brutal of th e species. None seems to be able to see that they are living a lie...not just lying in their consciences but living a lie.
Jesus also was never a tither...only the creeps who use his words and create re ligious illusions to feather their own nests call for tithing..."and more" . Onl y the liars in robes of power and their rabid followers call for killing as a so lution to....what?
They can kill someone in front of your eyes and say "didn't", can wipe whole fam ilies and villages of families off the face of the earth and say "regrettable".. .then do it again..and again.
In past years the real axis of evil has experimented with atomic bombs in Japan for no "peaceful" need whatsoever; straffed Korean refugees and lied about it f or nearly 60 years, using the discredited egoist Macarthur who fouled his nest in Australia in WW11 and who wanted to "Nuke" the Koreans...
The single reason Korea decided it needed Nuclear weapons...was to protect itsel f against American terrorism. That's why it held fast to that until recently..it knows the USA cannot be trusted to keep its word or tell the truth. As Mossad a nd Israel is pledged to the darkness of deception, so is its co conspirator.
Korea has nuclear capability owing to its justifiable fears after the American i ntervention in the early 50's so as to protect itself from American terrorists.M acarthur is to blame for that.
America, after lying to Churchill for 2 years whilst allowing Bush's relatives t o prosper enormously in America and germany , from investments in German War Mat eriel (including arms)manufacture lengthened the war in Europe, killing vast n umbers on both sides, by a year owing to Patton's arrogance in insisting on com mand over and above people who knew what they were doing..and we can all see post WW11 how brilliant is the American Military higher command!
Just as well it is adequately incompetent or the whole world might now be under the yoke of tyranny. It sells you its confident "saviour of mankind" story and t hen injects its venom. There would have been no WW11 most likely were it not for USA's demands for crippling reparations and even when the signs of war were obv ious it would not relent. Look to Hitler for the commencement of war, yes, but look to America for the cause.
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| Comment by pythagorus - 20 Jul 2008 - 02:50 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Part 3
America, later, abandoned the French to their fate in Indo China after promising assistance....whilst numerous South Vietnamese parachuted into certain death to help the dysentry weakened French.There may have been no Vietnam war were matte rs straightened out then, when a more legitinmate cause was afoot.
America interfered in countries far and wide resulting in scores of thousands o f deaths. It still is doing so....it has said nothing for example about Israel's activities in South Africa or palestine or Iraq or Iran or Australia or France or numerous other places...including deep espionage and operations in USA. It re fused to allow Hussein to abdicate to save Iraq. it rfused to be handed Osama on a platter why?...because that would interfere with the plans for world domination.
It has allowed its "Osama" image to gain access into Afghanistan now...murdering families whilst purporting to save families from being murdered. The world wou ld have been a far better place had the invasion of Iraq never occurred...on all three occasions. Tragic as it is to say it the world would also have been a far better place were Israel never given to the Zionists. I add it is not as though Zionists have never been given opportunity, by Muslims in Spain for example, over 1500 years ago in what became the "langue d'oc" ...Septamania.
This was a Jewish state awarded to them by what passed for Christianity. It was not enough however as devious zionism wanted Jerusalem back. On any number of oc casions what were "predefinition" Zionists could have bought a country over the last 2000 years(an certainly racked up quite an investment portfolio) however it was more cunning.
It has been tolerated, given opportunity and even seriously assisted over the tw o millenia. It wanted more however. It wanted to have it given to them as though the hand of god was intervening and it had to be in the "holy land" so it could maintain the facde of it being the chosen people and that Jerusalem was a part of its covenant with 'god".They jews were turned out of Spain by the Muslims after they were used for 100 years or so as aides and business managers by the Muslims.
I think it reasonable to say the Muslims realised they were themselveds being ma rgenalised and controlled and I think that might well be a part of the seemingly unending suspicion, the perception of jewish business....its power broking. One shouldn't generalise but at the same time why everywhere does this suspicion se em to exist.?...Is it a sort of self fulfilling prophecy or a cruel imposition upon them?..You might research it...The Templars arrived at the same era...another exercise in blood lust and avarice perpetrated in the name of 'god".
Certainly arabic culture including that of Muslims created extraordinary, mindb lowing, beauty and works of art and knowledege and philosophy, but like the ot hers, through the avarice of others this deteriorated into carnage. Remnants of that beauty still exist in France/Provence, Spain, Portugal, Africa and were eve n in Iraq until the country which decried to the world the destruction of aged Buddahs was let loose to destroy and even greater cultural heritage, over the last 5 years.
All these three, claiming to believe in the same faked jewish god have wrecked t he beauty they created in the world through the madness of power seeking. They h ave lost sight of the most beautiful creation of all is that which can create th e other beauty is any good or inspired man any woman at any time.Even the most b rutal of men cannot stop occasional feminine emerging and creating the most superb monuments...what a pity it is that man's hatred of his feminine is so intense that only once he has consumed the lives of innocents can he feel free to expose it, but not as a human being but as a victor indulging himself in the arts.
America put Diem into power in Vietnam and then invaded Vietnam and not only co mmitted diabolical attrocities but lied relentlessly and actively or passively e nsured the troops had plenty of heroin as they also provided drugs as it admitte d to airmen bombing friend and so called "foe" in Iraq.
America is the country which organised and then abandoned the would be assassins of Hussein, it then made a great fuss when they were executed. America used Sad am to get back the oil port it wanted and then found Iraq was becoming a power ful nation and one which concerned Israel. Israel made it clear according to Ari ben Menashe that it required and prodded America to attack the Arabs.
In 1967 America. Mc Cain's father being a political/military ringleader had dema nded from the survivors hide and never mention the fact that Israel committed a planned attack on USS Liberty intending to sink it with all hands to turn the wo rld against the Egyptians...and Israel was the instigator of that war, as it was the one against the Palestinians to whom it represents, and fulfills the role of, the third reich and the g |
| Comment by pythagorus - 20 Jul 2008 - 02:54 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Part 4
Probably disjointed now, sorry.
gestapo. Israel has become what it claimed to despise and wanted to destroy.
Israel was at that time in 1967 of attacking the Liberty simultanously engaged i n massacring about 1000 Egyptians who had been forced to dig their own graves..i nnocent people all executed, as were Palestinians from 1948 onwards.
Zionism, the wolf in sheep's clothing, the jackal of the 'holocaust'victims was on the rampage as it was in attacking British forces and using terroists like t he Stern gang as well as its own military puppets to begin the "holocaust" of th e Palestinians.As long as this religious machination is tolerate in our world so long also will continue the horrors of brutality and bestiality. What was the connection then between Freemasonry and Zionism...? Well, that's for you to research.
When efforts were made to save the Liberty the American defence was called off b y America. America, as with Pearl harbour, was again prepare to sacrifice men a nd materiel to acknowledge the superiority of the plans of, what in my view, wer e zionism and freemasonry. Hitler despised freemasonry and whoever created the g enocide of the jews, a diabolical plot, also included catholics and a whole range of poor innocents. The jews, unlike the story we have been handed down were about 50% of the murdered and tortured. Interestingly to me the reader's digest report of Hitler releasing thousands of jews for gratitude owing to his headaches being treated seems to not exist on the Internet...well what a surprise.
As hypocrites no two greater nests of hypocrites,assassins liars and plotters ex ist on the planet...even though Africa has its own share of abominations liars and hypocrites. McCain's father was instrumental in the deceit over the Libert y, hiding facts and suppressing facts. This intervention as I read it was one mi ght say bordering on the hysterical but certainly he was a most treacherous American in the halls of power..in my view as an observer.
Now that Israel controls almost the whole of Palestine, nauseating platitudes su ch as "exchanges of prisoners" and efforts to make the world believe that Israel wants peace are underway. Israel has the only WMD's in the middle East. Israel sells weapons to friend and foe alike but betrays both as it suits itself. Israe l modifies the military electronics it sells so it can control the equipment or have it fail when required...as Syria recently found out.
Re-visiting it, Israel is built on lies and deception and political avarice, the abuse of the victims of the genocide of Jews...and an equal number of non jews all well ignored so that people only see the jews as being the victims...Aided a nd hugly bolstered by the freemason conspirator America, zionism is securing the middle east for itself using fanciful rhetoric about being children of "G-D" , "chosen people", "returning to OUR lands", all are simply aspects of the bulldust they have fed the world for a hundred and fifty years and their own people for more than 2000.
In the last 5000 years Jews have inhabited, as controllers, the areas of Jerusal em for about 660...On the other hand, Muslins have inhabited and controlled it f or the last 1200 before 1947. The Roans and others possessed it far longer than the jews...and which jews?...the diaspora or the greek emergence?
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| Comment by pythagorus - 20 Jul 2008 - 02:56 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Part 5
Zionism is not "the jews"...We, "citizens du monde" however angry and powerless, should not lump jewish people together as zionism does for propaganda as "the jews". Nor should we lump all Christians or all Muslims of course...Whatever sel f interest jews might or might not have there are vast numbers of good and decen t jews throughout the world...many fighting Israel's excesses and murders inside and outside Palestine. Israel assassinates freely and controls the politics of other countries.
Read up about a couple of Mossad assassinated german politicians. Think about wh y Bush, instead of being exposed...as is Israel's method of family investigation ....as a product of a family whose morals revolved around money to the degree it was an influence in the materiels of the genocide called "the holocaust" .....i s feted by Israel and lauds it with eaises and lies and money.
Perhaps one might see a blackmail there..Israel's silence for Bush's support of the Palestinian genocide and supplying of over $3billion US yearly taxpayer's mo ney to assist it...and does Israel need the money as it has numerous other incom es including money laundering into safe banks?..No it has been self supporting f or years...but still has a poverty level to make us think it needs help, its own "holocaust" or "sacrifice"
And Palestine? well like Iraq it is being given the lie that we are all against it and that we all don't care..but we do care, we care deeply but what happens t o people who care enough to try to help in the fight against the western terrois ts?...they are immobilsed tortures and accused or simply killed. Our best course is to take control of our government and demand accountability, but an accountability which has a price for such abominations as the coalition of the willing conjured up...renting Siberia from the Russians could give a sa place to store these inhuman monsters.
Cheers
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