Thread: Depleted Uranium is WMD

I found this pretty disturbing. All from the liberators for democracy.

Depleted Uranium is WMD
by Leuren Moret
Published August 9, 2005 by the
[COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]Battle [COLOR=green! important]Creek[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] Enquirer (Michigan)


My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle
Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international
expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]nuclear[/COLOR][/COLOR] weapons
laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab.
Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:
Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]mass[/COLOR][/COLOR]
destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50
Chapter 40 Section 2302.
DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague and
[COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]Geneva[/COLOR][/COLOR] war conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws and U.S.
military law. Since 1991, the U.S. has released the [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]radioactive[/COLOR][/COLOR] atomicity equivalent of at
least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the
amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000
Hiroshima bombs. The U.S. has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere
with radioactive pollution having a half-life of 2.5 billion years.


More here.... "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns" -- Henry Kissinger

DU is causing severe health issues where ever it is used. Iraq, Bosnia.
How many American servicemen are screwed up with this stuff?

White Phosphorus is also a WMD, and it was used in the Falluja offensive....at first they lied and said they used it ONLY for "illumination", then they "retracted" the lie and admitted it had been used as an incendiary weapon.

White Phosphorus is a chemical weapon, it's a banned chemical weapon under Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons....of course the United States REFUSED to sign Protocol III.

thats the beautiful thing about america...someone says DONT FUCKIN DO IT! and we say "stop us" and then they back down.

we have too much power sometimes i think

Warning very disturbing.

simple Google search
GULF WAR SYNDROME BIRTH DEFECTS IN IRAQ CHILDREN BABIES EXTREME ...

"Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield could .... Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves. ...
www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extremedeformities.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium. By LARRY JOHNSON SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER FOREIGN DESK EDITOR ...
seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml - 45k - Cached - Similar pages
Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium'

Research reports have found that when depleted uranium is ingested or inhaled, it can cause cancers and birth defects. It has considerable heavy-metal ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUL20060122&art icleId=1777 - 43k - Cached - Similar pages
Daily Kos: Depleted Uranium and Birth Defects

A February, 2004, U.K. Pension Appeal Tribunal Service decision in Edinburgh implicated depleted uranium directly in the birth defects of children fathered ...
www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/1/05542/6088 - 115k - Cached - Similar pages
Depleted uranium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1987 photo of Mark 149 Mod 2 20mm depleted uranium ammunition for the Phalanx .... [17] The UK government further alleges that cancers and birth defects in ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium - 127k - Cached - Similar pages

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

I found this pretty disturbing. All from the liberators for democracy.

Depleted Uranium is WMD
by Leuren Moret
Published August 9, 2005 by the
[COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]Battle [COLOR=green! important]Creek[/color][/color][/color] Enquirer (Michigan)


My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle
Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international
expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]nuclear[/color][/color] weapons
laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab.
Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:
Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]mass[/color][/color]
destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50
Chapter 40 Section 2302.
DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague and
[COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]Geneva[/color][/color] war conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws and U.S.
military law. Since 1991, the U.S. has released the [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]radioactive[/color][/color] atomicity equivalent of at
least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the
amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000
Hiroshima bombs. The U.S. has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere
with radioactive pollution having a half-life of 2.5 billion years.


More here.... "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns" -- Henry Kissinger

Do not be so disturbed. This is not a nuclear bomb. The article almost implies that it is because the talk about the release of radioactive material in TESTING. This material is a metal. It is used because it is an extrememly dense metal. Because it is so dense it has armor piercing capability. This is why it is used. It is a low level radioactive material. It is also used as armor in tanks because it is so dense. But the applications are not only military. The metal is used as balast in counter weights and as keels for sailboats. Why there is even an application of this metal in false teeth!!

Stop trying to scare people!

I don't think the military would use it if it was that dangerous. They're not stupid. They wouldn't poison themselves and the people they're trying to save.

Its an interestng topic. i am willing to suggest that there ay be different grades of DU- with differing toxicity levels. In addition, the dentistry application, phased out in the 1980's, is about 500 ppm or 0.05%, whereas the shell would use 100% DU, I would think.
Residual civilian use seems to be monitored, and there seems to be a standard on the permitted radioactive release:
"less than 0.01 millisievert/year (mSv/yr) (1 millirem(mrem)/year) and therefore, the Facility meets the criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20 for unrestricted release and for license termination."

Not sure how this compares to DU shells...

Found this if anyone is interested....
Current Issues - Civilian Use of Depleted Uranium

Originally Posted by Zaragrunudgeyon

I don't think the military would use it if it was that dangerous. They're not stupid. They wouldn't poison themselves and the people they're trying to save.

I dn't think they are trying to save the drivers of foreign tanks... I think they weighed it up and decided it was better to run the risk of pollution than have an enemy tank remain operative...

Originally Posted by Latherty

I dn't think they are trying to save the drivers of foreign tanks... I think they weighed it up and decided it was better to run the risk of pollution than have an enemy tank remain operative...

I meant trying to save the general population. They didn't need DU to win. They could have won using sherman tanks. The iraqis were pathetic in head to head battle. Much better in insurgent warfare, mind you...