They have exposed close to a million of our troops.
http://lonestaricon.com/2006/CurrentIssue/09/news16.htm
An Interview With Karl Schwarz
By W. Leon Smith
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ICONOCLAST: Regarding Chris Busbys study about DU traveling, I would like to
get a political perspective from you. You know, The London Times printed a short
story about this recently and the Ministry of Defense there said that its
unfeasible that depleted uranium could have traveled so far.
KARL SCHWARZ: Well, thats what their stance is, but if you look a lot closer at
the comments of this ministry and also the Royal Academy people, they come up
with two diametrically opposed solutions and answers. One person says that this
was natural uranium that was stirred up in the atmosphere through shock and awe
in Iraq. If natural uranium could reach there, by God, the DU probably could,
too.
I mean, thats just to cut straight through the political-speak, okay?
You have to read that article real close to detect that, and you might even have
to quote the article or cite it. They are actually saying that no, this wasnt
DU from the use of depleted uranium weapons, this was natural uranium from Iraq
that got stirred up into the atmosphere through shock and awe. Now thats the
official British stance one. Okay?
Official British stance two is somewhat more problematic. Evidently, according
to this governmental official, theyve had a Chernobyl that they didnt bother
to tell their citizens about. Because he claims that uranium was local source
from their own nuclear reactors, you know, electrical power plants, and didnt
have anything to do with DU from Iraq. Well, as a matter of fact, the reason
that they put them in pellets and they put them in cores and they sink them in
heavy water is so that uranium cant get out, and they are sealed.
Those plants do not put any uranium in the air whatsoever. If they do, they have
to shut them down. Period.
ICONOCLAST: What are your thoughts politically on this. What do you think our
government needs to be doing?
SCHWARZ: I think our government needs to face this issue head-on, not only as a
public policy issue for the troops that theyve had exposed to this ever since
Desert Storm which includes Bosnia, which includes Afghanistan, also includes
Iraqi Freedom, the second go-round over here. They have used depleted uranium
weapons in all four of those deployments. The troops, if you start backtracking,
you dont ever read about this, but you can find it if you look for Bosnia
syndrome, like Desert Storm syndrome. One of the reasons and how I got on this
story, Leon, was up in Canada. They have a thing called the Uranium Medical
Research Center.
They actually have one in Canada and one in the United States. The Canadians
told me, Oh, for the record, the reason we didnt go to Iraq is we are already
seeing some huge health issues on the Canadian troops that participated in
Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. Were not going to be exposing our folks
to this stuff anymore. Were against it. Now, theyre coming to grips in their
own country with some very real and very tragic health stories, and our
government is sitting on it.
Now, from a public policy viewpoint, they need to take care of our veterans.
They put them over there on deployment on questionable issues. If you look back
at this issue, we have created the circumstances to attack Iraq the first time.
There were some very questionable issues surrounding Clintons bombing of
Bosnia. If you go back on 9/11, dissect that story, it wont stand the light of
day. Within 12 hours they were ready to attack Afghanistan and they were
actually practicing that invasion in the late spring and early spring of 2001.
And then, all of a sudden, we find out that everything about Iraq was
fabricated.
So, basically, the last four engagements, the last four deployments, are under
questionable circumstances. And they have exposed close to a million of our
troops. Now, if you go back and start to look at the health implications thats
going on, they put 425,000 Americans in Desert Storm and over 300,000 of them
are having medical disability issues.
They go over there some of the healthiest people on the face of this planet and
come home with their life devastated.
ICONOCLAST: I know that some of the state legislatures are in the process of
allowing testing for DU...
SCHWARZ: They are mandating it. Actually 10 have the legislation pending and two
others have passed it.
ICONOCLAST: Do you think Texas should do it?
SCHWARZ: Yes.
ICONOCLAST: Why havent we?
SCHWARZ: Why havent we? Because its not politcally acceptable to this federal
government. A lot of the states will run scared if the federal government starts
threatening them with loss of funding.
ICONOCLAST: Do you think that thats going to happen to some of those 12 states?
SCHWARZ: They may have some toning to do. I heard that an overwhelming number of
the Republicans in the Louisiana House and Senate voted to pass that legislation
down there. Im trying to get it stirred up in Arkansas. Thats where my son is
from. I want him tested. He was over there a year in the Green Zone. Even though
he wasnt out where they were dropping the bombs, this stuff was spread
everywhere.
I talked to one lady down in Florida. Shes a doctor and tested 87 of them and
every one was positive.
ICONOCLAST: If they test positive, whats their future?
SCHWARZ: Well, first off they are going to have to get a urine test and
chromosome test, which costs about six grand to get those tests done. There are
some things they can do related to heavy metal poisoning treatment. You know, if
you can get the damn metal out of your system through various medical means of
treating metal poisoning, the prognosis may be much better than it is right now.
ICONOCLAST: High protein diets?
SCHWARZ: That, but they also give you certain types of medicine to flush it out
of your system. This stuff tends to go for you liver, your kidneys, your brain,
and most of the vets Ive talked to about this are having side effects, blurred
vision, blurred memory, aching joints. They went over there healthy and came
home like they were crippled.
ICONOCLAST: Is the federal government doing anything for them?
SCHWARZ: Stalling. The VA has been locked up in committee. They arent even
proposing to be out with the fourth draft until December 2006. I can tell you
that for some of the people who served in 2003, that will be too late.
ICONOCLAST: What do you think needs to happen?
SCHWARZ: I think the government needs to (1) honor its word to the U.S.
soldiers, (2) I think they need to start testing anywhere downstream of these
firing ranges, the bases, the nuclear weapons labs, the storage facilities. I
think they need to start looking at the watershed and air drifting issues right
here in the states. And I think they need to come public with what they are
detecting on these high volume air sensors. We have them. Ive been on some on
two of our military bases and also government labs. They have those sensors on
them.
And, for some reason, they dont want anybody to know about it.
Now, the other thing Ive noted, because Im watching it, is the story that
broke in the U.K. (about DU traveling) and was posted within 24 hours in
Australia and has not been picked up by any U.S. newspaper, and Ive personally
put about 600 of them on notice. I also sent it to Canada, Germany, France,
Ireland, U.K., Australia, Japan. The world desk, national news editors.
ICONOCLAST: What about the people that live in Great Britain. Have you heard any
feedback?
SCHWARZ: Yes. Some of the people on my e-mail update list, who are from Armenia,
all the west to Singapore and Australia. Then theres about 18 or 19 of them in
the U.K. They have all posted this on their blogs if they have blogs. Canada has
been very actively pushing this out, because now its adding up in their heads
why so many Canadian troops came home sick.
A lot of the Canadians I know said they felt ashamed when their government
wouldnt go to Iraq with us. That is the first time Canada has not joined us in
a jolly good war. They felt a little ashamed, but now they are starting to see
the truth. In fact, some of them that served in Afghanistan are now dead. Some
of them in Bosnia, now dead.
ICONOCLAST: Do we need to change our munitions to something different?
SCHWARZ: Yes.
ICONOCLAST: Or can we?
SCHWARZ: We could. Well, we can and we cant. Sometimes were a victim of our
own successes. Im pretty sure the Russians and the Chinese are going to try to
come up with tanks that have the same type of depleted uranium and armor that
the Abrams tank has. We cant penetrate them. A tungsten-tipped projectile will
not be effective enough. Youd have to kind of shoot it in the ass, like the
tiger thing. You cant go head-to-head with them.
What you could do is tremendously scale down the reasoning behind some of this
stuff. Like theyre using depleted uranium as penetrators for bunker busters
just so they can bust those up. There are ways to take those bunkers out in a
ground assault. You could get in there and blow the doors open, take the thing
out that way. You might have to bomb it from the air. You might lose a few more
people, but at least you arent condemning millions of people.
The story that you saw coming out of the United Kingdom is a very typical
response that even U.S. government labs do when they get caught with their
britches down polluting the environment and exposing people to nuclear
contamination. They basically always try to say Oh, that was natural uranium.
The only problem is once you start doing these samples, you find plutonium, you
find neptunium, and you find U-236, which is not naturally occurring, at least
plutonium and U-236 are not. And they are finding that, as well. Now, those two
things are highly radioactive and highly toxic, in fact, there may be one or two
things invented by man that are more toxic that plutonium. That is lethal stuff.
It doesnt take much to do you in.
ICONOCLAST: So their arguments dont hold water?
SCHWARZ: They dont hold water. And this is one of those things, as long as they
obfuscate, they are literally guilty of genocide. They are guilty of cruel and
inhumane treatment of our soldiers. And, you stop and think about it, our
allies, our coalition partners are starting to see this and I think thats why
they are starting to fold up on some of these military policies. Theyre not
going to keep exposing their populations to this crap.
And now, if this story is true, that theyre being exposed thousands of miles
away, you may seen a worldwide uprising to nuclear arms, period. That would be a
good thing. Darn, Leon, Im not even an anti-war person.
Im standing here, outside, right now, looking around. I mean, what if this crap
is right out here on these peoples yards? Theyre out here doing their
gardening, maybe getting exposed to this crap. You have no way of knowing, and
it doesnt take much of this stuff to put your health over the edge.
ICONOCLAST: Some of the scientists Ive talked to say that it is everywhere, and
that its in what we consume.
SCHWARZ: In an article I have coming out tomorrow, I talk about how this is
probably in our water, its in our food chain, its in the air we breathe, its
in the materials we touch. You know, yeah, its around. And that scares me
because Ive been sitting here for the last 25 years wondering why my friends
are getting so damned sick with disorders they dont even have names for.
About the only science that Im aware of that can address this is
nanotechnology. They have not come up with any chemical means whatsoever to
neutralize this crap. Nanotechnology might be the answer.
ICONOCLAST: How would that be the answer? What form?
SCHWARZ: You are actually getting down to submolecular size that could actually
trap and catch this stuff, maybe change its properties, with the damage caused
to the nanotube and not to the human body.
http://lonestaricon.com/2006/CurrentIssue/09/news16.htm
Alan
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