Thread: Depleted Uranium is WMD

Originally Posted by Blueneck

Are you contradicting your own argument or just arguing with yourself?

Where did I say anything about Iraq in that first statement?

Originally Posted by Sparta

Where did I say anything about Iraq in that first statement?

If Iraq is not a battlefield - why did we use DU there? Or do you not support the fact we did? You perhaps mean we should use it in some other war???

Originally Posted by Blueneck

If Iraq is not a battlefield - why did we use DU there? Or do you not support the fact we did? You perhaps mean we should use it in some other war???

Please woman, your attempt to make me trip on my own statement is borderline pathetic. DU is a tool used for weaponry and armor, do I think soldiers should not use weaponry and armor in a fire fight if it can't be defined as a war? I don't know, what do you think?

Originally Posted by Sparta

Please woman, your attempt to make me trip on my own statement is borderline pathetic. DU is a tool used for weaponry and armor, do I think soldiers should not use weaponry and armor in a fire fight if it can't be defined as a war? I don't know, what do you think?

I think it's defined as a war as far as funding it goes. "War" has become a tricky word these days, from a Supreme Court standpoint, anyway. As for weaponry - I don't think we should buy weapons we're not gonna use - war or "conflict" or whatever. And we shouldn't use chemicals or germs. Do we really need that kind of shit to win a "war" anyway? Don't we have enough conventional weapons at our disposal without resorting to using something like that on a country we're supposedly trying to liberate? Do you want some radioactive shit dropped on you and your family when the French finally arrive to free us from the tyranny of GWB?

Because conditions are so chaotic in Iraq, the medical infrastructure has been greatly compromised. In terms of both cancer and birth defects due to DU, only a small fraction of the cases are being reported.
Doctors in southern Iraq are making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. They have numerous photos of infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines, and the list of deformities goes on an on. Such birth defects were extremely rare in Iraq prior to the large scale use of DU. Weapons. Now they are commonplace. In hospitals across Iraq, the mothers are no longer asking, "Doctor, is it a boy or girl?" but rather, "Doctor, is it normal?" The photos are horrendous, they can be viewed on the following website
Ross B. Mirkarimi, a spokesman at The Arms Control Research Centre stated:

"Unborn children of the region are being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA."

Prior to her death from leukemia in Sept. 2004, Nuha Al Radi , an accomplished Iraqi artist and author of the "Baghdad Diaries" wrote:

"Everyone seems to be dying of cancer. Every day one hears about another acquaintance or friend of a friend dying. How many more die in hospitals that one does not know? Apparently, over thirty percent of Iraqis have cancer, and there are lots of kids with leukemia."

"The depleted uranium left by the U.S. bombing campaign has turned Iraq into a cancer-infested country. For hundreds of years to come, the effects of the uranium will continue to wreak havoc on Iraq and its surrounding areas."

This excerpt in her diary was written in 1993, after Gulf War I (Approximately 300 tons of DU ordinance, mostly in desert areas) but before Operation Iraqi Freedom, (Est. 1,700 tons with much more near major population centers). So, it's 5-6 times worse now than it was when she wrote than diary entry!! Estimates of the percentage of D.U. which was 'aerosolized' into fine uranium oxide dust are approximately 30-40%. That works out to over one million pounds of dust scattered throughout Iraq.
As a special advisor to the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr. Ahmad Hardan has documented the effects of DU in Iraq between 1991 and 2002.

"American forces admit to using over 300 tons of DU weapons in 1991. The actual figure is closer to 800. This has caused a health crisis that has affected almost a third of a million people. As if that was not enough, America went on and used 200 tons more in Bagdad alone during the recent invasion.

Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11

Depleted Uranium: Poisoning Our Planet

Video interview on DU



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