romunov’s blog et al

Here is another topic dear to my heart, depleted uranium. Since the US “intervention” in the Gulf region, cancer has jumped conciderably. For example, see here:

Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.

However, the Iraqis are not the only targets. DU is not selective, and Coalition forces are under its spell as well. Veterans have been reporting various illnesses, which Pentagon and the govt try to supress.
From the first link:

In August 2004, the VA reported that over 518,739 Persian Gulf veterans were on medical disability since 1991.

If my memory serves me right, since the first Gulf war, about 10k young Gulf veterans died.

Government just passed an order which will make media (CDs, DVDs, memory cards, HDs…) a bit more expensive. According to Brumec, a cake of DVDs will cost slightly less than 4 euros. As mentioned, other “innocent” media will go up as well, including cell phones.

Now, this seems to me like even people who have everything legal, are being punished for something they didn’t do. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or history major to figure out, that this isn’t logical. I invite everyone to read the Geneva convention, article 87 that says collective punishment is FORBIDDEN. If even in WAR collective punishment is forbidden, why should it be in peace time?