Dissident Veteran For Peace

Iraq has been nothing but lies and cover up. Remember it is for home consumption, not history. There are many events "covered up" by the American government. I want to bring to anyone’s attention the Battle Of Baghdad. It disappeared from the radar just when American forces were at the airport. Next you hear it is over. But dig into and you will find mention of a large battle, one where the Americans were not doing so well. Diligent search will find little mention. But something did happen to the 3/7 Cavalry Troopers. Weed through it and it seems like massive casualties on both sides. Some say a neutron bomb was used. There were reports of strange burning of victims. Dig into it. Check out Captain May’s article on it.
 

I was nearby and a friend lived there. First, FOB Falcon is not the largest base. Victory Base Complex is (where I lived). FOB Falcon is basely a square mile in size. Second, no one died, and there were no injuries. The explosions were from a lucky mortar round hit on some CONNEX containers full of conventional ammo. I spoke with a USO performer's handler who was there that night. Third, there were no nukes or chemical weapons. Also, the conventional ammo stored there was hardly enough to make a dent in the overall effort. People from my base helped with the cleanup. There was no battle (just the normal harassment mortars) and no mass casualties. The "facts" that I have read in various blogs makes me shake my head, thinking how foolish the authors look because they did not do fact checking.I spent two tours in Iraq and I am astonished at the conspiracy theorists! Of course, efforts to correct their ideas merely leads them to respond that I and those like me are part of the conspiracy.
 

I thought that this article about 300 casualties was hilarious. I was there on FOB Falcon in 2006 when this happened. First, let me say, this was scary as hell. But once the fire died down and all of the rounds stopped cooking off it really wasn't that bad. It happened on a part of the FOB that the contractors for the FOB lived in. Pretty much all of their housing got burned down from the fire and explosions. My battalion had two Soldiers in the guard tower closest to the AHA and they were pulled out of the tower fairly quickly due to some fast thinking individuals. No cover-up here, just too many people with too much time on their hands to come up with some crazy BS. Sounds to me like someone needs to get off of thier computers and get a real job that requires them to be of service to the greater good instead of trying to tear down our every second of existance with conspiracy theories.
 

I was at ground zero when the AHA got hit. One of the 120-130 KBR Contractors that lived next to it. The major cover up is the massive amount of depleted Uranium that we all breathed in that night from the fully loaded dozens upon dozens of pallets of Armor Piercing Paladin and Abrams Tank munitions that detonated. My lungs are screwed up now and I know what caused it. I can prove nothing after this many years later even though I am fully feeling the effects at my middle age. Here is exactly what happened. There was an Iraqi contractor hired by base ops to scrape the roads around the AHA and he had been driving his road scraper around the AHA doing his job for 2 days prior to the attack. He sold the AHAs exact location to the insurgency, it was by no means a lucky shot. The first mortar round hit right out side the wall of the camp behind the AHA. We thought it was just a near miss. We had no idea that it was a targeting round that the insurgency was using sighting in their mortar tubes directly on the AHA. Five minutes later, the insurgency dropped around 8 direct hits onto the AHA Connexs. A fire broke out and reached the 5,000 gallon fuel tank at the motor pool setting right next to the AHA. When that 5,000 gallon fuel tank exploded, it set off all of the munitions in the AHA and burnt the KBR camp to the ground at the same time. The rest is history. Now you know the truth, No conspiracy theories and no hidden casualties. We all had time to run as the world didn't end until the fuel tank blew around 30 minutes after the initial attack. The facts are though, the stuff that we had to breath in that night stuck in our bunkers and not being able to move has devastating long term effects.
 

Actually.... I was an Army asset that handled counter-propaganda on the ground opcond to a Cav squadron that had just arrived. And since I also handled pro-propaganda, I don't expect anyone to believe me. I say this because I had to convince locals that these 300 deaths and WMD ammo wasn't true. So I had the actual Intel. No it's not classified because Stars and Stripes released the actual story. It was a lucky shot. There was a belief that we were sold out, but there was no legitimate proof of this. The base was constantly harassed with random mortor fire. Enough to have means of trajectory back traced. Enemy SOP was to have tube laid in a truck bed, drive to a spot, fire three rounds, and drive away before counter-battery could respond. So these shots were extremely random in their impacts, from empty fields to the chow all. All of which were pretty centralized in the base. Also, the biggest rounds were 155mm artillery shells. No CBRN stuff, or shady ammunition. There was also very limited tank rounds since tanks weren't used much because of the impact on environment. Hell it Was a pain to get authorization to use anything over a 240b. There were no deaths. The biggest impact on operations was that "non-essential" personnel was restricted to quarters while UXOs were collected for 3 days.
 

I have to agree pretty much with last comment. I was there in the 2nd set of barracks the night this happened. Rounds were always going over and around this base. As he said it was a 1 round lucky shot that hit the AHA. A few scrapes and bruises is all it caused, no deaths. And he is also correct, the biggest round was 155 artillery. We had no tanks there and I highly doubt there was any depleted uranium in the air that night. SFC Carnes, Ret, Bravo 1-1O Cavalry, 4th ID.

 

Unfortunately I’m glad you can confirm the burning of DU munitions. My wife was stationed at Victory during that time and recounts the haze of black smoke that hung in the area as far out as Victory.

There is somewhat of a cover up. When Camp Doha Kuwait AHA blew up there was a major cleanup effort with full MOP PPE employed. The are became a HAZMAT containment area.

You can find and read the official report on the DU cleanup at Doha. I spoke with the Director of DU research at APG, MD. He confirmed DU is excreted from the kidney through the bladder within 24 hours of exposure. Dosing can be checked by urine. That being said. Some of the Alpha particles can get caught in healthy tissue and form cancerous cells.

All things considered the VA refuses to service connect my young wife’s kidney cancer.

I’m still waiting for the DOD to release the official report.

The toxic exposure was massive.

Don’t forget what happened at Falcon.

 

There were tanks there. 1/35 armored with 1sr AD... You know they make DU rounds in 110mm and 155mm. Also I can tell you for a fact we had sabot rounds. Please don't be spitting opinions as facts......