How does the gov support the troops by poisoning them?

Question

Vietnam=Agent Orange

Desert Storm=Gulf war syndrome

Iraq & Afghanistan=Depleted Uranium
http://www.notinkansas.us/du_4.html

Not to mention the recovery workers at Ground Zero who are sick and dying and are largely ignored by the government!

How can any of this be justified?

Do the soldiers know the dangers they face through chemical warfare?

Answer 1

Justified?

How can any of what you present be...proven?

The DU site is wild speculation with one anecdote and no proof...none. Alpha particles from depleted uranium travel only a few centimeters. U-238 is three times less radioactive than U-235. Depleted Uranium is not a significant health hazard.

Gulf War Syndrome? What is that? How have you shown, in your question, that there is any "poison" in an unexplained...syndrome?

Agent Orange? Lawsuits have been dismissed.

Tell us how you draw your conclusion that recovery workers are "largely ignored."

Having said all that, the government ought to take care of soldiers who get sick. But *YOU* have not presented anything useful or provable in your rant.

Answer 2

None of it can be justified but when they do not see them as having the same value as their own children it does not enter their minds that they are poisoning them. A lot of soldiers have been refusing them because the truth is coming out. I think of that base where there was all those deaths and suicides. A group of husbands became violent and abused their wives, those wives that died some husbands also did not believe what happened and committed suicide.

There is more upset among the soldiers than is let on by the government and media. New recruits are gung-ho and more bidable but the experienced ones are learning from each other and friends who have become sick.

People do not even realise at one point way before the attacks and 9-11, the government actually told workers to not refer vets to services because they weren't there anymore and neither was the money. Sadly, all the rah-rah-rah support our troops is p.r. from the government and not real. I remember Rumsfeld saying, "What is the point of having an army if you can't use them?" All the generals (WHO HAD SEEN HUMANITY AT IT'S WORST ON THE BATTLEFIELDS), audibly gasped at his stupidity.

In the back rooms they are seen as cannon fodder.

Answer 3

The same way they support them by sending them to war without helmets that resist shell shock, or tank without the armor to protect them. Sadly, most of them don't know until it's too late. What's even more sad is that most Americans don't even care, they think supporting the troops means buying a sticker that probably wasn't even made in the USA. It doesn't have to be justified because nobody cares enough to speak out because they've been brainwashed to believe a distorted and backwards view of patriotism. Our government could care less about the soldiers fighting in Iraq...Rumsfeld even made a joke about them being "sitting ducks" when questioned about their lack of proper equipment 4 years into the war. As for ground zero, right now there are still 1,100 people whose remains have yet to be discovered. That's because the next day day the NY department of sanitation (under whose instructions?) loaded all of the ashes and debris and used it to fill potholes and a landfill. That is is how out government treated the firefighters who lost their lives that day...like trash.

Answer 4

I don't agree that our government is poisoning our soldiers. Definitely not. The issues you have raised are part and parcel of any warfare. In any war, there must be casualties and war comes with many ingredients some of which bring side effects. But if there is any one not supporting our troops, it's the American people. I don't see why we have not matched in the streets demanding our troops to come back home right away.

Answer 5

You forgot Agent Orange and Blue, the killer of many that waded through that muck in Vietnam!

The government ALWAYS denies it! ALWAYS!

And yes, every time someone sitting in a tank in Iraq takes a breath they are inhaling particles of uranium! Now what do you think is going to happen 20 years from now? Actually it has already begun!

Don't be misled by the term 'depleted uranium'. Like spent fuel' from civilian reactors, depleted uranium is highly toxic and carcinogenic and has a half life of some 4.4 billion years. -- Alice Slater

NATO is trying to save Kosovars, but if they leave Kosovo filled with depleted uranium, it's not a happy situation. They [would be] poisoning them. If you are going to use depleted uranium in warfare, it's better to drop an atom bomb and kill 30,000 people instantaneously rather than killing them over 20 or 30 years. -- Hari Sharma

Desert Storm veterans along with the people of Iraq and Kuwait were victims of one of the latest military experiments on human beings. I believe that the ignorance was culpable and criminal. -- Rosalie Bertell

We came across a lot of destroyed vehicles and dead bodies as we moved up through Kuwait. Nobody ever told us to stay away from the vehicles that might have been contaminated with depleted uranium. -- Victor Suell, radio operator, US Marines

In Iraq in 1997, I discovered monstrous births of deformed babies and old men who, amid the wreckage which the Allies had blasted with our uranium shells, told me of daughters with breast and liver cancer. -- Robert Fisk

There is now overwhelming evidence that use of depleted uranium is killing peacekeepers from Allied countries now based in the Balkans. It is killing the soldiers who went into the Balkans when the Serbs withdrew, and it is killing the people there who we went to war to supposedly protect. It is also killing the ordinary people of Iraq who have to suffer the triple pressures of a despotic regime, international sanctions, and death from depleted uranium. Using depleted uranium is clearly immoral, but it is also against international law and UN conventions which prohibit the use of weapons which cause indiscriminate deaths and injury. -- Caroline Lucas MEP

Answer 6

Our government has a history of not caring about our troops. Bush has lowered veteran's benefits but the troops don't seem to know it yet. They will know it when they need help and can't get it, if the live through Bush's war. Bush doesn't consider our troops human lives. They are just puppets to him. This illegal and immoral war needs to stop and we need to have our troops home now, alive and unmaimed and not dismembered.

Answer 7

the govt. also under funds the VA and allows Walter Reed diasters to operate without making improvements. Many of the 911 heroes couldn't get teh medical attention that they needed so Michael Moore took them to Cuba and they were more than happy to treat them. It's shameful that capitalism will only care for the rich.

Answer 8

Military and Ground Zero? Apparently you need to get a few (most) of your facts straight.

Yes, we are trained in chemical warfare.

Answer 9

Uh Oh! This question smells like another liberal conspiracy nut case in yahooland.

Answer 10

This is just another thing the government sweeps under the rug.