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And then of course there is the effects of ‘fallout’ our returning vets are exhibiting.
Anyone hear of ANYTHING Obama is doing about those 2 issues? Intentions, lest y’all forget, are meaningless without action.
People speak of Obama’s oratorical skills, but his real skill is procrastination, also evidenced by this
Michael Moore is giving Obama until February to decide whether Obama is nothing but hot air; personally, I’ve had all I can handle of the gaseous speeches that make me nauseous when I reflect on what could have been.
Nobel Peace prize?(at least he was correct when he said he didn’t deserve it) “The troop increase approved by Obama brought the level of US forces deployed in the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres to a total greater than during the peak of the surge in Iraq in late 2007 and early 2008.”
Financial sector reform? How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance’s Five Fatal Flaws
So while I’ll cut Michael Moore some slack because of the excellent work he has done in ‘sticking up for the little man’, I suspect that he won’t wait until February to realize that it’s still ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’.
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Thanks for the link. I had read previously about cancer rates soaring after the first Gulf War in Iraq but I hadn’t heard anything about the effects of depleted uranium in the current war there. Depleted uranium should probably be considered a weapon of mass destruction.
With regards to the new boss being the same as the old boss, it does seem like the Democrats are moving towards the same policies in Afghanistan that Bush used in Iraq, and they likely will have the same cost in terms of civilian and military casualties, refugees, and our budget deficit and economy. I would imagine we’re using less depleted uranium there because it’s used to penetrate armor, but who knows.
Not less. Don’t forget that the so called “Bunker Buster” bombs are DU.
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“A BBC investigation can reveal that the US and UK military have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings from scientists that it poses a potential long-term cancer risk to civilians.
A former senior scientist with the United Nations has told the BBC that studies showing that it was carcinogenic were suppressed from a seminal World Health Organisation report.
The US has refused to fund major research and has been criticised for failing to cooperate with UN attempts to conduct a post conflict assessment in Iraq.
Both the US and UK used depleted uranium in Iraq.
The US fired 320 tons in Gulf War I — and possibly as much as 2,000 tonnes in Gulf War II. ”
http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html
ubetcha … thanks for this serious consciousness raising.
you nailed it with “procrastination”. Granted there is a huge mess, but there seems no “moral imperative” with Obama to act, and then when he goes the wrong way …. aghhhhhh, and such dissonance with what he passionately promises when he does address an issue and then “crickets” in terms of action.
Turley called him Hamlet on the Potomac early on … but I fear his footdragging is collusive with corporate agenda.