Do your Homework Says Randy Rhodes.

The horrors at Walter Reed - Part 1 Part 2

The White House message to amputees: hide your stumps in the presence of King George.

Depleted uranium continues to tear the lives apart of those exposed, yet it still rains down everywhere our military treads…

Those individuals (military and civilian) at or near target areas are most immediately affected by DU contamination, especially if they remain there for an extended time. During the 6 week 1991 Gulf war only 467 U.S. personnel were wounded and about 150 killed. Out of the 580,000 military personnel who served in that war, 325,000 were reported to be on permanent medical disability by the year 2000. It was also reported then the number was increasing by 43,000 each year. In fact, the annual increases were even greater, and by 2004 the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) reported over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans to be on medical disability. It also reported over 500,000 veterans were homeless. Studies were also done on veterans whose wives had normal babies before the war. It reported two-thirds of post-war births of those studied had severe birth defects, such as missing brains, eyes, legs and arms and blood diseases.

Grandparents raising the children of those killed are being denied benefits.

The Army Times: Wounded and Waiting

Meanwhile, it is Small Town America that bears the disproportionate burden of Bush’s filthy oil war.

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