While the military continues to deny the connection of depleted uranium to sicknesses plaguing returning servicemen and women, a newly mandated study stemming from legislation signed by President Bush in October is getting under way. (Daytona News Journal)
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Is Depleted Urnanium Making Soldiers Sick?
Category: Health
Posted on: April 17, 2007 11:39 AM, by EJGili
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Well, what did the signing statement say that completely gutted the bill?
Did it demand that no data be released before mid-November of 2008?
Posted by: Roy | April 17, 2007 12:55 PM
I've had my suspicions on this since the confict in Serbia. Of course, the official findings on that conflict were "not only doesn't depleted uranium cause sickness but it isn't being used, so there."
It's pretty ironic that legislation approved by Bush would mandate a study - I only hope the science isn't suppressed and spun in typical fashion.
By the way, I used to read a newsletter called LOHAS, which I found quite refreshing.
Posted by: Anna Z | April 17, 2007 01:54 PM
via DemocracyNow
An Iraqi medical doctor was supposed to give a talk at the University of Washington sometime this month and his visa application was ignored/lost 12 times and then finally rejected. No reason seems to be given. His talk was on the extremely abnormal rates of cancer among Iraqi children.
This was most likely to be on the consequences of depleted uranium munitions on populations indegenous to the battlefields where munitions are used.
Posted by: MTW | April 17, 2007 01:55 PM
Rest assured Roy, the data are already cooked up and the paper is all but written.
Posted by: Jeb, FCD | April 18, 2007 02:15 AM