Welcome Tim! Glad to meet you. Thanks for posting this as I missed MTP.

Welcome, Tim and Hi Jen.

In speaking with some old yellow dog Democrats, most of whom were not too sure what to make of Dean initially, the consensus was that he is articulate and learning fast! I heard praise for the party, the chairman and the spine that is stronger than the right-wing wringer...that spin cycle has dried up whatever credibility those liars had. The American people are fed up with this misadministration and Dr. Dean will fire up the base. We're on a roll, so let's keep it going! I'm stoked for this kick-off and ready to kick some ass, people.

I would like the Democtatic Party tp begin telling the American public about this:

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

A death sentence here and abroad

by Leuren Moret

At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers, all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their recent tour in Iraq.
Photo: www.american
freepress.net
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as “spectacular … and a matter of concern.”

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate – the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

In simple words, DU “trashes the body.” When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: “I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans’ families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

How did they hide it?

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry’s father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon “and nothing overseas … nothing political.”

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn’t work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The “next DU war” had already been planned, and those planning it wanted “no skunk at the garden party.”

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, “The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America’s Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire,” details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU “show on the road” and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their “godfather” and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a “war against terrorism” long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby’s neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world’s oil deposits are located - he replied: “It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger.”

In Zbignew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives,” the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The “South” region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy.”

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the “smog of war” from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren’t telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence … for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:

American Free Press four-part series on DU by

Christopher Bollyn.

Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime

Against Iraq, Humanity,"

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says

Depleted Uranium Definitively

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care:

Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to

Vets",

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html

Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic

Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World",

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:

"Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin

Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come

Home To A Slow Death,"

http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,

Germany, October 16-19, 2004:

http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan.

Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat:

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar0

4.htm

"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War"

by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret,

http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.

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Dear Mr. Dean:

You did a great job on Meet the Press and represented us well.

I was rather surprised though last week when Chris Matthews got you stammering when he pressed whether you were pro-life or pro-choice. Even if your personal view differs from your party's on a given issue, no one can score points on you if you're clear about it. I admit I was concerned at that moment, but you more than made up for it in your subsequent interview with Tim Russert. He didn't box you into any corners, and you presented a very dignified and reasonable case.

Thank you...

I'm so happy someone is finally pointing out that the Congress could not be expected to make an honest decision based on hyped intelligence. If the President was unaware of the truth, he should fire those who lied to him. If he did know the truth, he has lied to the American people, something he promised not to do.

I thank Governor Dean for explaining that Jesus never approved of leaving widows and orphans behind. Jesus preached about the need to love your brother and help him in his time of need. The so called religious right constantly preaches murder and hate for all those who disagree with them. I must mention Pat Robertson in this vain.

Good luck to Governor Dean.

Joey Fritts

I share Chairman Dean's emphasis on the importance of clarity about our agenda, speaking truth, and speaking about our values. In my opinion, it is even more important that we be clear about our VISION. In other words, what will the world and the United States of America be like if they were exactly the way we would like them to be?

For example, more than 1300 people from all over the world developed a statement of a vision for the world in the year 2000, the first part of which was:
"Our vision is of a world that is human-centered and genuinely democratic, where all human beings are full participants and determine their own destinies. In our vision, we are one human family, in all our diversity, living on one common homeland and sharing a just, sustainable
and peaceful world, guided by universal principles of democracy, equality, inclusion, voluntarism, non-discrimination and participation by all persons, men and women, young and old, regardless of race, faith,
disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity or nationality. It is a world where peace and human security, as envisioned in the principles of the
United Nations Charter, replace armaments, violent conflict and wars. It is a world where everyone lives in a clean environment with a fair
distribution of the earth’s resources..."

What is our vision?

and a tail between our legs pull out from Iraq.
Posted by tralfas on November 15, 2005 at 09:14 PM

round table discussions this morning or yesterday, shown on TV, the group all agreed, if we do not pull out, we will be there for Years and Years to come, with an insurgency constantly trying to get us out. That the only way to suceed at all, is to just get out. It will be Bush/Cheney's tails between legs, if we do.

I would like to swee Howard Dean run for President.

Why not propose an amendment to the Constitution on the right to privacy?

Governor Dean speaks for me.

I think it's great to say we'll stand up for the truth but now sure people think politicians tell the truth. I'd like the democrats to stand up for all americans. Since many Americans vote Republican when its against their best interest, it would be beneficial to tell those Americans why they should vote Democratic. Democratics are constantly standing up for average, hard working Americans and trying to stop the bleeding from Republican policies. I think if we talk about what Republicans are voting for and how Democratics are trying to stop it, as well as highlighting what ideas we have right now and what legistation we've prosed, we do better to educate the public. For example, the 2001 tax cut for middle income people was the Democrats idea. Without the Democrats, people wouldn't have received refunds. Also, couldn't we simply say, Republicans want to give your money to the oil companies. Couldn't we mention that pollution related illness kills over 3,000 Americans a year, yet the Republicans think we should allow pollution - Democrats voted against... Couldn't we say Republicans want you to pay more for Prescription Drugs while Democrats proposed...

Governor Dean, You have become so media savy. You certainly have done your home work in framing. You do not let the talking heads put words in your mouth. When they try, you stand your ground and state your position exactly as you mean it. You are right....we need repitition of your message. It needs to be said over and over and over again. This is how the Republicans were able to pound their message into the psyche of the public. Thank you for speaking for me.

The problem Dean has is a lot of people do not listen to what he has to say because of his politacal history and the fact he is just another Washington DC Democrat. His message might be good but another Washington liberal is a turn off across the country.

I'm not sure who got to Dean, but now he's rolled over and getting his belly scratched by...I don't know...weapons dealers...oil companies?

Kerry, Clinton, Dean... These are not leaders.
They are sell-outs with vested interests calling the shots for them.

I hope a comet hits d.c. the next time the cabinet and the congress and the lap-dog press corps are all there to reap what they deserve.

The Democratic agenda...what a load of crap.
The Democratic agenda is to put on an occasional face of dissent while they give in to whatever neo-fascist legislation the repuglicans shove down our throats.
First they voted to give a filthy-rich, spoiled-brat, chicken hawk, wannabe-dictator authority to rape the middle-east.
And then they stand by while the constitution is destroyed.

"The democratic party speaks for me."

BULLSHIT!!!

The democrats speak for EXXON/MOBILE.
The democrats speak for LOCKHEED/MARTIN.
The democrats speak for WARMONGERS.

Chairman Dean doesn't speak for me. Never in harm's way. One more chickenhawk.

RESPONSE TO 'CHAIRMAN DEAN SPEAKS FOR ME':

The truth is well known: Terrorists do not and will never accept the culture of the west (i.e. U.S., Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, and the list goes on). For some strange reason, democrats believe that terrorists will negotiate in a fair and reasonable manner and will make concessions towards cultures other than their own. Wake up democrats. The terrorists want everyone to adhere to their way of life and until that happens, they will continue to target westerners. When will the dems learn that you can’t negotiate with terrorists.
And just how will the dems keep jobs in America? As long as cheap labor is available overseas, corporations will continue to move jobs out of America.
Renewable energy is a great concept but the democrats will make us pay for it with higher taxes.
This country is not like other countries in the world so please stop comparing the U.S. to the rest of the world. When you dems can convince the health care system and insurance companies to make sacrifices towards humanity and to make ‘quality of life an issue’ rather than line their pockets with huge profits, then and only then will we have a health care system for everyone.
Our education system is weakened by liberalism. The platform of the Democratic Party is liberalism. So let’s see --- liberalism + Democratic Party = weak education system.
After Bill Clinton outright “LIED” to the American people concerning Monica Lewinsky, I would hope that they would want honesty back in government. And George Bush is a man who possesses high morals and values, even when it isn’t popular to do so.

The dems always seem to leave out other aspects of moral values. Yes, moral values include making sure all Americans have food to eat and have health insurance but moral values also include rights of the unborn (it seems as though the only person who has a voice for the unborn is the woman who wants to abort her baby), traditional family and traditional marriage values. The weak argument is this: A woman has the right to do with ‘HER body’ as she pleases but what she fails to realize is that the ‘unborn human baby’ inside her body is NOT her body. It’s sad to think that an unborn baby has no choice but to develop inside a woman who would even consider having an abortion.

The dems have no proof that the president misled the American people. For the sake of argument, “IF” the American people were misled, that means the Democrats were stupid enough to follow along. But the truth of the matter is that the CIA failed to provide the president with credible information. The information presented by the CIA was passed on as credible.

I had hoped that we had learned a valuable lesson in Vietnam. I had hoped that we would not let a few people looking for financial gain lead us to sacrafice our young men and women in a senceless war. President Bush Says Stay the course, continue to sacrafice our sons and daughters. To say that he spits in the face of every veteran. Send his own daughters over to Iraq and see how long we stay the course.