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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20586)	4/5/2004 12:20:48 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80904

Raymond > George W. Bush clear[ly] was embarrassed that he hadn't perpetrated the greatest hoax in America's history, i.e. the Warren Commission, .... so Bush participated in the scheme to create and cover-up Operation 911. What kind of argument is that?! Are you suggesting that there's a competition between the American presidents to see who can be the most dishonest? If so, I'd say there's no contest --- W wins hands down. And, you know what's more --- he'll be re-elected. He's the man the people want.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20586)	4/5/2004 3:56:51 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80904

Dr Duray, As the local authority on depleted uranium, what is your professional opinion on the condition of these four servicemen? nydailynews.com >>>Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found. They are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military Police, who say they have been battling persistent physical ailments that began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah. "I got sick instantly in June," said Staff Sgt. Ray Ramos, a Brooklyn housing cop. "My health kept going downhill with daily headaches, constant numbness in my hands and rashes on my stomach." A nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested nine soldiers from the company says that four "almost certainly" inhaled radioactive dust from exploded American shells manufactured with depleted uranium. Laboratory tests conducted at the request of The News revealed traces of two manmade forms of uranium in urine samples from four of the soldiers.<<< However >>>[Pentagon spokesman] Kilpatrick said about 1,000 G.I.s back from the war have been tested by the Pentagon for depleted uranium and only three have come up positive - all as a result of shrapnel from DU shells. Several Army studies in recent years have concluded that the low-level radiation emitted when shells containing DU explode poses no significant dangers.<<< So, it seems there's a mystery about how these servicemen became contaminated with radio-active material. Since their exposure could not have come from a US military source, the only logical conclusion is that they must have been contaminated with radiation from Saddam's stockpile of nucular weapons which we were told definitely do exist even though they have not been "officially" found.