Big Question, Mr. President

[PADemD]

Will the bombs you propose to drop on Syria be regular bombs or bombs made with depleted uranium?

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1. Bombs (non nuclear) and missiles are not made of depleted Uranium

Depleted uranium is used most extensively on armor piercing rounds as well as in armor plating.

[PADemD]

2. Whatever

U.S. Depleted Uranium as Malicious as Syrian Chemical Weapons

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/us-depleted-uranium-as-ma_b_3812888.html

The Suffering of Fallujah

"Thus last November, a group of British and Iraqi doctors petitioned the U.N. to investigate the alarming rise in birth defects at Fallujah's hospitals. 'Young women in Fallujah,' they wrote ... are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukemias.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/the-suffering-of-fallujah_b_663545.html

Campaign Against Depleted Uranium

http://www.cadu.org.uk/cadu/index.html

[sharp_stick]

3. Google works wonders

to keep your posts in line with reality.

[PADemD]

4. Wow, you're correct about Google

Look what I found:

U.S. Stocking Uranium-Rich Bombs?

The Pentagon has not confirmed the use of uranium or depleted uranium in the bunker-busters, and it has refused to identify the composition of the dense-metal warheads that enable the missiles to penetrate structures deeply buried under earth, steel and reinforced concrete.

But critics such as British researcher Dai Williams contend that only uranium -- in one form or another -- possesses the density and other characteristics necessary to achieve the penetration levels attributed to such weapons as the 2,000-pound AGM 130C air-to-ground cruise missile, and the guided bomb unit, or GBU, series of laser-guided hard-target penetrators intended to pierce bunkers and other reinforced structures.

Williams and others also claim that patents covering conversion or modification of earlier generation bombs for use as bunker-busters indicate that depleted uranium is being used in these weapons.

For example, the patent application for a narrow-profile version of the BLU-109B bomb (which is delivered by a GBU-24) specifically refers to penetrating bodies made of tungsten or depleted uranium.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/03/57959?currentPage=all