Cancer in Iraq vets raises possibility of toxic exposure

[TheStripey1]

This is not good...

Cancer in Iraq vets raises possibility of toxic exposure

By Carla McClain
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.26.2007

After serving in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago — and receiving the Bronze Star for it — the Tucson soldier was called back to active duty in Iraq.

While there, he awoke one morning with a sore throat. Eighteen months later, Army Sgt. James Lauderdale was dead, of a bizarrely aggressive cancer rarely seen by the doctors who tried to treat it.
As a result, his stunned and heartbroken family has joined growing ranks of sickened and dying Iraq war vets and their families who believe exposures to toxic poisons in the war zone are behind their illnesses — mostly cancers, striking the young, taking them down with alarming speed.

The number of these cancers remains undisclosed, with military officials citing patient privacy issues, as well as lack of evidence the cases are linked to conditions in the war zone. The U.S. Congress has ordered a probe of suspect toxins and may soon begin widespread testing of our armed forces.

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The article is quite a bit longer than what I quoted. The link to the article is under the title.

Please join me in contacting our congressional representatives and ask them to begin testing our troops for DU exposure.

 

[Alpha1]

Makes you at lease wonder why we haven't heard about Iraqis themselves dying from similar problems in the 10's of thousands....kinda hard to keep something like that being a secret for even a few months....

 

[maineman]

Makes you at lease wonder why we haven't heard about Iraqis themselves dying from similar problems in the 10's of thousands....kinda hard to keep something like that being a secret for even a few months....

maybe a significant portion of those Iraqis exposed to DU have died of "other causes" before their cancer presented itself?

 

[jillian]

maybe a significant portion of those Iraqis exposed to DU have died of "other causes" before their cancer presented itself?

or maybe record-keeping with respect to such matters isn't so hot in Iraq right now.

 

[Gunny]

Makes you at lease wonder why we haven't heard about Iraqis themselves dying from similar problems in the 10's of thousands....kinda hard to keep something like that being a secret for even a few months....

Many veterans of the First Gulf War were exposed to toxic fumes destroying an unmarked chemical weapons dump in Iraq.

I think the depleted uranium argument is overblown. There is no conclusive evidence to prove it is anything but hype. Depleted means just that.

 

[Alpha1]

To Jillian and MM I say....could be, could be....

The vets from the first Gulf War, when the Iraqis set the oil fields afire, seems caused a hell of a lot more toxic smoke, etc. than anything this time around....and from the thousands of workers that were there for months putting out the fires, ? I've never heard anything from them.......

Need more info on this than is available now....credible info...