posted 03-17-2004 09:31 PM            

Ill try to find the transcript.

An Important PRESS RELEASE Announcement from Dennis Kucinich:
http://www.kucinich.us/pressreleases/pr_031404.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2004
WHAT: Press Conference
WHO: Dennis Kucinich and Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD
WHERE: University of Illinois, Champaign Campus, Illini Student Unit, Pine Room
WHEN: Monday March 15th, 7:00 PM

Champaign, Ill Democratic Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich will hold a press conference monday to detail little known information about the nuclear content and life-threatening effects of U.S. munitions that are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan and which have been used in other military conflicts beginning with the 1991 Gulf War.

Joining Kucinich will be Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD, retired Army combat officer, and one of the world's leading experts on the use of munitions containing radioactive depleted uranium (DU). He served as a member of the U.S. Army Medical Command's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) special operations and teaching team during the Gulf War. He is a confirmed casualty of poisoning by DU, which has a half life of 4.5 billion years!

Kucinich is expected to discuss the devastating health consequences suffered by American servicemen and women and their families and by civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Serbia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere because of DU munitions used by the U.S. and other nations.

Kucinich is also expected to outline a plan to provide medical testing and care to all military personnel, veterans and others who have been exposed, as well as demand that the U.S. and other responsible governments perform complete environmental remediation wherever military forces have used DU munitions.

"Depleted uranium weapons are an unacceptable threat to life, a violations of international law, and an assault on human dignity." says Kucinich. "We have an obligation to do what is right for our servicemen and women, for our children and our grandchildren, and for all citizens of the world. We must ban the use of depleted uranium in our military and worldwide, we must provide medical care to all DU casualties; and we must clean up all the places where we've used this poison that has the power to kill for countless generations, far into the future."

Contact: Matt Harris (o) 216.889.2004, (c) 216.403.3980,
press@kucinich.us; Nate Wilkes 602.221.6598

For information about the National campaign: http://www.kucinich.us

For information about the Illinois Kucinich campaign: Diego Alvarado,
309-275-5070, MrDiegoAlvarado@aol.com