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R. B. Stuart: Green Party Admits Soldiers Testing Positive to Depleted Uranium
On July 12, 2008, Green Party Presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney acknowledged depleted Uranium, white phosphorus and cluster bombs in her acceptance speech. She said, “Those that delivered us into this mess can not be trusted to get us out of it.”
McKinney addresses on her website that ‘reports now surface that our soldiers are returning from Iraq and testing positive for depleted Uranium.’ She sponsored legislation to end the use of all depleted Uranium weapons until their health effects are known. McKinney has reintroduced this bill in the 109th Congress.
McKinney made history when she became the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives. And as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the Green Party nominee has passed legislation to extend health benefits for Vietnam War veterans still suffering the health effects from exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange.
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