It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant most Americans are, so I thought maybe this graphic presentation adds a little awareness of what's really going on.
These pictures have been shown in documentaries throughout the world. Europeans are especially aware of the destruction and suffering in Kosovo. And while I can understand that many Americans simply don't care about people in other countries, I can't understand why they won't even care about their own soldiers and their families.
Do you know that America doesn't even provide medical care for all its own troops?
For years, the veterans with Gulf War Syndrom were refused treatment and they were categorized as lazy deadbeats. Recently Congress investigated the lack of medical care for soldiers returning injured from Iraq.
From the Dennis Kucinich page on depleted uranium:
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A recent study shows that U.S. Gulf War veterans' children have a much higher likelihood of having three specific types of birth defects: two types of heart valve abnormality occurring to children of male veterans, and genital-urinary defects to children born of female veterans. A study of British veterans of the Gulf War, Bosnia, and Kosovo reveals that they have 10 to 14 times the usual level of chromosomal abnormalities.
A Canadian medical research facility recently found that the urine of Afghani people living near the area where the United States carried out military operations contained radioactive isotopes 100 to 400 times as high as Gulf War veterans from the United Kingdom who were tested in 1999. The Canadian team recorded an average of 315.5 nanograms of these isotopes in people in Jalalabad, Tora Bora, and Mazar-e-Sharif. A 12-year-old boy near Kabul tested at 2,031 nanograms. The maximum exposure considered safe by the United States is 9 nanograms/year. With growing evidence of an increase in birth defects and stillborns, the situation should be addressed as an issue of the highest priority.
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Who cares?
Posted by Christine at March 15, 2004 02:29 PM