Over 500,000 veterans of the 1st Gulf war are receiving treatment for exposure to depleted uranium. Thats 70% of the armed forces who were deployed.

According to countercurrents.org:

"More than 320 tons of depleted uranium munitions were used in the Gulf War. Ten times that tonnage has so far been used in Afghanistan and Iraq. Depleted uranium has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Some of the radioactive particles are as small as bacteria. They cannot be filtered so they permeate the air, water, soil, vegetation, and animal life. Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are inhaling and ingesting them every day. They accumulate throughout the body like time-release poison, so the symptoms often develop years later."

How can mothers and fathers proudly expose their sons and daughters to this kind of risk? How will they feel when their little grandchild is born with horrible deformities? Its one thing to take pride in defending freedom but quite another thing to allow the government you are defending to poison your offspring.

When will U.S. citizens rise up against this kind of oppression and stop defending it?