A message to the
citizens of the world and especially the politicians, scientists and physicians
involved in the debates about uranium weapons from Dr. Doug Rokke, former
Director, United States Army Depleted Uranium project, former United States Army
Gulf War 1 Depleted Uranium assessment and recovery team health physicist, and
confirmed DU casualty. I ASK EVERYONE WHO RECEIVES THIS MESSAGE TO DISTRIBUTE
THIS MESSAGE TO ALL CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD.
THANK YOU,
dr. doug rokke
As the United States
Department of Defense hoped for discussions and debates continue regarding the
toxicity of uranium weapons it is extremely important to understand that these
same officials want these debates to continue while they ignore and hope the
general public does not learn that United States Army regulations, specifically
United States Army Regulation 700-48, United States Army Technical Bulletin
9-1300-278, along with numerous orders already require thorough environmental
remediation of all contamination and that medical care is provided to all
casualties because as stated in the 1995 United States Army Environmental Policy
Institute report in response to the congressional and U.S. Army leadership
mandate to reduce uranium weapons toxicity we found and stated that quote: "Ways
to Reduce DU Toxicity: No available technology can significantly change the
inherent chemical and radiological toxicity of DU. These are intrinsic
properties of uranium" end quote.
It is important to note that the actual medical care directives that we wrote
and United States Department of Defense enacted mandating medical care for DU
exposures required that the radio-bioassay - urine, feces, and nasal swabs be
completed within 24 hours of the initial exposure not days, weeks, or years
later as is happening if any tests are even ever conducted. Today medical tests
are only given to some selected persons and not all exposed children, women, and
men. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. On medical effects,
to many scientists and government officials only read or cite selected peer
reviewed literature, that excludes reality, while ignoring what has actually
been medically observed, diagnosed, and treated in those, including myself, who
are confirmed DU casualties.
I have asked United States Department of Defense officials; President Clinton's;
President Bush's, Prime Minister Blair's, Prime Minister Howard's, United
Nation's, Italian, Swedish, German, Japanese, and NATO administration officials,
and even Dr. Bryan Spratt's team at the British Royal Society to ensure that
already mandatory medical care is provided to all Depleted Uranium casualties
and that al environmental contamination is cleaned up as already required but
they ignore those legal requirements and want the debate to continue to avoid
all liability. Ladies and gentleman the debate ended once they orders and
regulations were adopted and published. But today those who advocate and use
uranium weapons while ignoring mandatory medical care and environmental
remediation requirements place themselves all national and international laws.
SIMPLY THEY ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE.
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:15:52 EST
From: Dlind49@aol.com
The following link takes you to the current DOD web site for medical information
on health effects of depleted uranium:
http://www.pdhealth.mil/downloads/DU_Clinicians_Guide_09172004.pdf
This sheet on depleted uranium is full of misinformation and omits all
references to the DU team reports, the DU project, and simply lies
about our actual adverse health effects from uranium weapons exposures.
Many of us who are enrolled in the VA DU MEDICAL PROGRAM HAVE SERIOUS DU
RELATED- DIAGNOSED MEDICAL PROBLEMS. However, we have been abandoned.
VA physicians have only tested a few hundred individuals (Gulf War Review volume
13, #1, page 12;
http://www.va.gov/) out of thousands who were supposed to
received testing and medical care as required by numerous orders and
regulations.
The October 1993 DOD DU medical care directive mandated testing within 24 hours
of initial exposure using the radio-bioassay not weeks, months, or years later
as done now if done at all. Once this test is done an extrapolation from
measured to actual dose must be done too but that has been ignored.
I recommend that everyone read- study the Pentagon's own 2002 staff briefing on
adverse health effects of uranium exposures. If you have questions just
ask me.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html
DOD, DA, USAF, USN, USMC, USCG, VA, MOD (British), CND (Canadian), AND
(Australian) and NATO officials have for years continued with delayed and denied
care in order to maintain the cover up of the always known serious adverse
health and environmental effects and to sustain uranium weapons use while
avoiding all liability as specified in the March 1991 Los Alamos memorandum
written by LTC Mike Ziehmn (http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html). The
March 1991 memo written by LTC Greg Lyle was also very clear in citing serious
health risks. I am the Army officer who received these two directives. LTC Lyle
is correct. However I refused and still refuse to comply with LTC Ziehmn
directive in
order to sustain uranium weapons use. As the former director of the U.S. Army
Depleted Uranium Project, the U.S. Army health physicist who cleaned up the
mess following Gulf War 1, who recommended the initial medical care, and who is
a confirmed DU casualty I am fed up with the continued lies and refusals by our
leaders to comply with all known provisions of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48,
LTG Peake's April 29, 2004 order mandating medical care for all exposed
individuals, and refusals to comply with all of the numerous medical orders over
the years.
dr. doug rokke
Major, retired/ disabled, USAR
simply:
Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action
By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair
Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project
January 6, 2006
While U.S. and British military personnel continue using illegal uranium
munitions- America's and England's own "dirty bombs" U.S. Army, U.S.
Department
of Energy, and U.S. Department of Defense officials continue to deny that
there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the
manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions to avoid liability for
the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - depleted
uranium. They arrogantly refuse to comply with their own regulations,
orders, and
directives that require United States Department of Defense officials to
provide prompt and effective medical care "all" exposed individuals [Medical
Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties, DOD, Pentagon,
10/14/93, Medical
Management of Army personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters,
U.S. Army Medical Command 29 April 2004), and section 2-5 of AR 70-48]. They
also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive Contamination as required
by Army
Regulation- AR 700-48: "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted
Uranium or Radioactive Commodities" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army,
Washington, D.C., September 2002) and U.S. Army Technical Bulletin- TB
9-1300-278:
"Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage, And Transportation
Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions Or Armor Which Contain Depleted
Uranium"
(Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington, D.C., JULY 1996).
Specifically section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation-AR 700-48 dated
September 16, 2002 requires that:
(1) "Military personnel "identify, segregate, isolate, secure, and label all
RCE" (radiologically contaminated equipment).
(2) "Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be implemented
as soon as possible."
(3) "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of through
burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in place, or abandonment" and
(4) "All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be surveyed,
packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released IAW Technical Bulletin
9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48" (Note: Maximum exposure limits are specified
in Appendix F).
The previous and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive
components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment, and releases of
industrial, medical, research facility radioactive materials have resulted in
unacceptable exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed as
required
by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include releases of all
radioactive materials resulting from military operations. The extent
of adverse health
and environmental effects of uranium weapons
contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and
sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including
Vieques; Puerto
Rico; Colonie, New York; Concord, MA; Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana; and
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Therefore medical care must be provided by the
United States Department of Defense officials to all individuals
affected by the
manufacturing, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions. Thorough
environmental remediation also must be completed without further delay.
I am amazed that
fourteen years after was asked to clean up the initial DU mess from Gulf War 1
and over ten years since I finished the depleted uranium project that United
States Department of Defense officials and others still attempt to justify
uranium munitions use while ignoring mandatory requirements. I am
dismayed that
Department of Defense and Department of Energy officials and representatives
continue personal attacks aimed to silence or discredit those of us who are
demanding that medical care be provided to all DU casualties and that
environmental remediation is completed in compliance with U.S. Army
Regulation 700-48.
But beyond the ignored mandatory actions the willful dispersal of tons
of solid
radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium munitions is
illegal (http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf) and just
does not even pass the common sense test and according to the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security, DHS, is a dirty bomb. DHS issued "dirty bomb" response
guidelines,
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
, on January 3, 2006 for incidents within the United States but ignore DOD
use of uranium weapons and existing DOD regulations. These guidelines
specifically state that: "Characteristics of RDD and IND Incidents: A
radiological
incident is defined as an event or series of events, deliberate or accidental,
leading to the release, or potential release, into the environment of
radioactive
material in sufficient quantity to warrant consideration of protective
actions. Use of an RDD or IND is an act of terror that produces a radiological
incident." Thus the use of uranium munitions is "an act or terror" as
defined by
DHS. Finally continued compliance with the infamous March 1991 Los Alamos
Memorandum that was issued to ensure continued use of uranium munitions
can not be
justified.
In conclusion: the President of the United States- George W. Bush and
The Prime Minister of Great Britain-Tony Blair must acknowledge and accept
responsibility for willful use of illegal uranium munitions- their own
"dirty bombs"- resulting in adverse health and environmental effects.
President Bush and Prime Minister Blair also should order:
1. medical care for all casualties,
2. thorough environmental remediation,
3. immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance
with medical care and environmental remediation requirements,
4. and stop the already illegal the use (UN finding) of depleted uranium
munitions.
References- these references are copies the actual regulations and orders and
other pertinent official documents:
http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
http://cryptome.org/dhs010306.txt