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• • 27 Aug 05
  • 8:21 am

  "Roger" from "Ramjet" is either a government disinformation agent or just an ignorant rightwing antagonist, as should be evident from his unwillingness to give his identity and address. In fact, Dr. Douglas Rokke, who holds the rank of captain, not lieutenant as stated by "Roger", not only headed up the DU project, which included test explosions of DU weapons in the Nevada desert, and not only is described in U of Ill. literature as a "health physicist", he received a letter of commendation from Gen, Shinseki. On Dec. 3, 1995, On June 30, 1995, a letter of recommendation for the Army …

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• • 27 Aug 05
  • 8:31 am

  Addemdum, The cowardly "Roger" would appear to be one Lt Colonel Roger Helbig, United States Air Force, whom Dr. Rokke says works at the Pentagon and has been regularly attacking him. This is, in other words, most likely an official--if hidden--effort by the Pentagon and the White House to try to keep the DU story from gaining mainstream traction. As Rokke says, "He is one more of those associated with the Pentagon who must attack in order to susatain dU use and avoid all liability for its illegal use. Given his position and his deception about it, I think the veracity …

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• • 27 Aug 05
  • 10:29 am

  The following post is MAJOR (NOT LIEUTENANT!) Dr. Doug Rokke's response to the disinformation being spread by the Pentagon about him courtesy of the above "Roger" of "Ramjet". Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair posted by Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D. August 27, 2005 David Lindorff has writen a very good article on DU. This article resulted in renewed personal attacks against me by LTC Roger Helbig, USAF, who has been spearhesding efforts to sustain DU use and ensure DOD officials are not help responsible for using weapons of mass destruction - dirty bombs against civilian …

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• • 29 Aug 05
  • 9:22 pm

  One last comment. I can't stop myself. Roger says depleted uranium is less radioactive than uranium. For christ's sake. All depleted uranium is, is uranium that has had most of the U235 taken out of it (the stuff needed for fission chain reactions in bombs and nuke plants). Since U235 occurs in nature at about 2 percent of all uranium, with U238 accounting for about 98 percent of any sample, depleting it has very little effect on total radioactivity, though it's true that U235 is a bit more radioactive than U238. But again, it's not the radioactivity alone, or even primarily, …

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• • 25 Oct 05
  • 3:49 pm

  Dear readers, Please note that the following letter was refused publication by the editors of In These Times. Because of that refusal, I have demanded that they remove my name from their masthead as a contributing editor. As a contributor to ITT since its founding in 1978, it pains me to have to do that, but such shabby treatment of a writer cannot be tolerated: To the editors: I have to take issue with the note that ran on the letters page of the October 24 hard-copy issue of In These Times, apologizing for an “error” in this piece. This so-called …

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