Beyond Treason

Narrator:
Few people are aware that the Gulf War was yet another example of the Department of Defense's intentional exposure of its own troops to its own deadly weapons.

Narrator:
From 1984 to 1989 the US government with full knowledge of the CDC and the Department of Commerce sold and transferred *to Iraq* $ 4 billion worth of deadly chemical agents and deadly biological agents such as Anthrax, Clostridium botulinum and West Nile Fever virus.

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.

Leuren Moret:
The history of Depleted Uranium goes back to a 1943 declassified memo known as the "Groves Memorandum". In this memo, D.U. is recommended for development as a poison gas warfare weapon.

Leuren Moret:
According to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which has declared Depleted Uranium illegal, approximately 17 countries have purchased D.U.-weaponry from the United States Government.

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."

Leuren Moret:
The amount of Depleted Uranium used in the first Gulf War, in 1991, is approximately 340 tons, and this is admitted by the U.S. Government. In Yugoslavia, Lord Robertson, who was the head of NATO in 1998 admitted in the public media that the U.S. had used D.U. in every missile used in that invasion. It's estimated that at least 1,000 t of D.U. was used in Afghanistan in 2001, and approximately 2,400 t were used in Iraq in 2003.

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.

Leuren Moret:
We all know: the United States falsely accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction in 2003. In fact, the U.S. invaded Iraq and used weapons of mass destruction.

Leuren Moret:
In the civilian population of southern Iraq, the Iraqi doctors are reporting very large increases in cancer, leukemia, and of course birth-defects in the new-born. Babies are born without a brain, without eyes, without legs or arms; sometimes the baby is born with a cyclops-eye, just one eye in the forehead. And each year, these birth-defects are more and more severe.

Leuren Moret:
Pediatricians now in southern Iraq are reporting that some babies are born without heads or arms, they're just pieces of flesh.

Narrator:
13 Years after the Gulf War, the Department of Defense still calls the Gulf War Illness "a mystery disease." Either the Pentagon employs the most incompetent researchers and physicians in the world, or the cover-up is by design that these troops are being denied meaningful medical care. We can only conclude that the Department of Defense is waiting for an army to die.

Title card:
The Riegle Report shows that 14,000 chemical alarms sounded during the first Gulf War.

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The Department of Defense claims that all 14,000 events - were malfunctions.

[first lines]

George Bush:
[archive footage, voice-over] Just two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. These attacks continue as I speak. Ground forces are not engaged. This conflict started August 2nd, when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor.

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Joyce Riley:
BeyondTreason.com will be a focal point, an area where people can go to find out what can be done, what needs to be done, and how to help. We must all join together to say, "Enough is enough!" You see, if they experiment upon the military, the citizens are next. We can no longer play the role of esprit de corps in the military, of patriotism, of *blind* patriotism. We must accept the fact that it is our fault, that we have allowed this to take place in this country. We call ourselves Americans, and this is freedom, and yet our sons and daughters are dying? Those that are responsible for these acts should spend the rest of their natural lives in prison for what they have done. There is no question: from the presidents on down, for the past 50 years, those that have been in charge of these experiments, there is no question that this is truly beyond treason.