Depleted uranium- a Genocide weapon.
I am late to the table on this topic. This is so outrageous. Why any soldier would continue to show allegiance to this administration is beyond me. Why any parent or spouse of a soldier in this administration’s army is not stampeding Washington is beyond me.
If your soldier doesn’t die in combat, he surely will die a slow death after his or her tour of duty.
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret
At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers, all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their recent tour in Iraq.
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
In simple words, DU “trashes the body.” When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: “I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”
You can read about the ‘future’ ramifications of this deadly weapon at the above link and in the link below. It is devastating. I have never been more ashamed of ‘those in power’ and if you have a loved one in the military please fight for them!!!!
US media censor uranium weapons stories-
Depleted uranium turns to poison gas
Are our sons and daughters worth this sacrifice?
don’t eat too much! I had my fill a while back as I diaried about it on DKOs back in February… I got some awfully well informed thoughts about it… Plutonium Page also seems to bet a bit expert about it…
The fascinating thing that I found out was that there is a tendency for people to get all worked up about it because of the perceived radiation threat, when in actuality, there really is none, because it’s depleted uranium(or “Doopleeted Nuranium” as Chimpotus would say). The lethality arises from ingestion or inhalation of the debris and the uranium behaves as the ultimate heavy metal in the body, similar to lead or mercury… so the experts think… but they’re not sure… Just don’t let Plutonium Page or Plan9 catch you referring to the “radiation threat”…; )
All this being said, I found it the ultimate insult that the Air Force is now pushing through congress the space based weapons platforms which will “fire long rods of uranium” from space that would result in “low yield” nuclear explosions to wipe out ground based targets. This is just speculation, but… do you think that they would really waste uranium in that way, rather than using it’s energy benefits in a reactor or something…?
I suspect that said satellites would fire depleted uranium rods from space, and in light of all the information coming to light about it, the powers that be decided to scrub the presentation up a bit and leave out that nasty little adjective, finding that good old garden variety nuclear fallout in small quantities was preferable… Actually, if you think about it, what self respecting Pentagon weapons project wouldn’t want the capacity to fire both…?
In conclusion, casting our fate to the four winds I suspect it will be only a decade or so before we all enjoy the benefits from doopleeted nuranium… even in the “far-off, exotic land” of America…
The basics: natural uranium is composed mostly of U-238 with a small fraction of U-235. (I think on the order of 5%). Both are radioactive, but only U-235 will fission spontaneously. That is what is needed for making a bomb (or a nuclear reactor). So the uranium is enriched: The idea is to separate the useful U-235 from the unuseful U-238, but actually all that happens is you end up with a small mass where the proportion of U-235 is enhanced significantly and a large mass where the U-235 is depleted slightly. The depleted uranium, being essentially waste, is a cheap by-product of nuclear bomb and energy production.
Metallic uranium is very dense and makes a very penetrating armor-piercing bullet, but on striking its target–and breaking its jacket–it burns on contact with air to form a fine powder that is easily ingested. The ingested powder persists in the lungs or bones, or perhaps other organs. There, it acts both as a heavy-metal poison and a source of ionizing radiation. The irradiation causes chromosome damage leading to cancer, inheritable birth defects, and a multitude of widely various ailments which in the coming years are going to get a lot more study. The heavy-metal effects are only somewhat known from analogy with more familiar heavy metals like mercury and lead–though that is alarming enough.
Battlefields in Serbia and Iraq where depleted uranium has been used see cancer rates and birth defects increased about tenfold among the surviving population.
With a half-life of over a billion years, the destructive power of uranium is forever. It is unknown at this time whether uranium will tend to dispurse through the environment to create ongoing destruction in humans or migrate to regions of concentration, harmlessly or the opposite.
Only a fool would count on the facts being kind. Americans are fools.
It is genocide. But genocide unlimited in space or time.
and we call ourselves “civilized” ?????
glad to see you at the table, “pass the bread, please” ; )
I stumbled across the whole DU stories about 4 years ago. It is truly an abomination of mindboggeling proportions that our government has purposely decided to use DU for any reason. Die sooner or later-that’s basically what’s going to happen to so many people who have contact either directly or through air or it soaking into the ground and contaminating everything.
And once again MSM have ignored the enormous consequences of this story and won’t have anything to do with it.