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Re: Fw: Battle wounds from Iraq
Hi Charlie,
There is plenty of reason to share Coralie's sorrow regarding the loss
of life as well as the plethora of losses short of death. However, there
are large numbers of people never exposed to Iraq and never exposed to
DU who have contracted lukemia. A great deal of effort has been expended
to determine the health effects, if any, of exposure to DU. There is
essentially no evidence supporting any effects of radiation from DU and
many findings showing no radiation effects. The minor dangers from DU
are chemical toxicity which has no relation to lukemia. That danger has
been found minor because it is not at all easy to experience exposure to
this toxicity unless one is in a tank hit by a DU munition -- in which
case poisoning is hardly a concern.
I wish she might have spelled out the "many vaccinations/injections
given within a few weeks' which might account for both a stroke and a
heart attack. Of course, all things are possible, but if this
circumstance had a causal effect, then surely we would have observed a
huge number of such results in many nations since WW1. Thus far, I've
not heard of any war that to some degree was not an environmental
disaster????
There are (always have been and will be) plenty of things 'wrong' in the
world without folks dredging up these kinds of attributions. I'd so much
rather see people sincerely say thank you for what you have done for me
and for all of us.
Ah, the vagaries of human nature .... I am grateful to those who oppose
militant terrorism in other parts of the world instead of having to live
with the daily problems visible in Israel and Iraq.
You are welcome to convey or not these thoughts to Ms. Farlee though I'd
not expect her to be comforted or convinced of changes by them.
Cheers,
Maury&Dog maurysis@ev1.net
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Charles J Boltuck wrote:
>Charles J. Boltuck (until 3-8-05)
>Tel.:(843)686-2177
>
>---- Forwarded message ---
>From: Coralie Farlee
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005
>Subject: Battle wounds from Iraq
>---------- snipped --------
>Today I went on a short cruise for military at Walter Read Hospital here in D.C. We, in the Southwest area of D.C. were invited to be "hosts." spoke to 5 people, 3 of them young women. Here are some observations. Yes, 2 had the typically reported limb injuries,
>schrapnel, including vision loss, etc. But 2 had environmental and medical reactions. That's
>why I've included a couple of you in this "report."
>1- One young woman has lukemia and is having MANY chemo therapies, with loss of hair and surgeries. She
>said the cancer was from the mix of chemicals in the environment in Bagdad that the US has created --
>"depleted" uranium, etc. The other woman who I had talked with most of the time confirmed this, saying "it's a real environmental disaster there."
>2- The second woman had been severely overweight and has (since she's been back in the US) lost quite a bit, but had a heart attack and stroke, attributing these to the MANY and REPEATED vaccinations that the military are required to have -- for anthrax "protection" and various other things, many injections/vaccinations repeatedly within the span of only a few weeks, e.g., 1 anthrax "shot" a week for
>each of 4 weeks, etc.
>
>So -- some of the "injuries" to the military in Iraq are neither in combat or "self-inflected," but
>inflected by the medical system and our own environmentally (and people) unfriendly products.
>
>Does anyone have comments or criticisms of this? What I'm reporting is what the military people themselves believe.
>
>Coralie
>
>
>
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