Beyond Treason (2005 Video)

Doug Rokke: Self

Quotes 

• Doug Rokke : And then, to top it all off, we used Uranium munitions, known as "Depleted Uranium". They've been used back in 1973 by the Israelis against the Egyptians. But during Gulf War I - "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm" - we took it to a totally new level, the use of radioactive material on the battlefield.

• Doug Rokke : Actually over 350 tons of solid radioactive materials were dispersed across Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, taking our radioactive waste and throwing it into somebody else's back yard.

• Doug Rokke : In May of 2002, the US Department of Veteran Affairs reported that over 160,000 troops that participated in Gulf War I, period August of 1990 to the Fall of 1991, had been classified as disabled, anywhere from 10 to 100%.

• Doug Rokke : When we look at all the troops that have gone into the Persian Gulf region between August of 1990 and May of 2002, when the last formal report was written, the US Department of Veteran Affairs formally acknowledges over 221,000 individuals as permanently disabled. And over 10,000 are deceased.

• Doug Rokke : There is a 60,000 increase in individuals that are disabled amongst those that served *after* the Fall of 1991. That disability is only due to residual exposures and immunizations, because there was no active combat.

• Doug Rokke : Post-deployment health physical assessments were not given, even though we specifically requested it. In my own case, when I came back to get released, I said, "I was exposed to these, we need to do these tests." And they refused to do them.

• Doug Rokke : In December of 1992, the director of the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute was ordered to figure out ways to reduce the toxicity of Uranium munitions. In 1995, the director of A.E.P.I. told the Secretary of the Army, "We can't reduce the toxicity. It's not possible."

• Doug Rokke : The U.S. Army Common Tasks Trainer states very specifically, "Uranium contamination will make food and water unusable". And yet we use it in combat. All over the place. That's why the U.N. Sub-commission on Human Rights has ruled that Uranium munitions were an illegal weapon. Because they're *indiscriminate*. They *can't* be cleaned up. And they last for eternity.