Pentagon uses depleted uranium shells in its raid against Iraq

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/14451_uranium.html

Pentagon uses depleted uranium shells in its raid against Iraq
10/15/2004 15:02
Contamination caused with depleted uranium will last for 4.5 billion years

Increased radioactivity was found in destroyed and abandoned Iraqi tanks. The radiation level may testify to the fact that the US army used uranium-cored projectiles in the raids. Japan's Kyodo News agency reported from Baghdad, a group of specialists had found several radioactive tanks in the area of the Iraqi town of Samawa, where the Japanese contingent was stationed.

The abandoned military hardware is dangerous to people's health, the news agency said. International coalition troops will destroy the tanks for safety reasons. The group of specialists included experts from a Japanese non-governmental organization. The experts said that the radiation level that they had registered near the tanks exceeded the norm 300 times.


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Iraq is a dead country!!!

[PartyPooper]

1. Who said there were no WMD's?

Bu$h has created and used them against the Iraqis and his own people!

:nuke:

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Not just Iraq

They used it in Bosnia too. This has been going on for a while.

If you go here:

http://www.secondterm.us/

The first flash animation is about our history with Saddam Hussein (very insteresting).

If you click on "making the world free of crimes against humanity" there's a flash animation about the use of depleted uranium.

WARNING - Photos are graphic and disturbing.

[grannylib]

3. If you have a chance to watch foreign news, you can see some of the

devastating effects of this filth on innocent Iraqi children: horrendous birth defects from the depleted uranium in the cluster bombs.
And this idiot dim son calls himself 'pro-life....'
War is NOT pro-life. Polluting the environment is NOT pro-life.
These people are more than 'lying and corrupt' as Kerry said some months ago...they are EVIL.
Satan must be chortling with glee at the hoax he's perpetrated; people believe Bush is a 'born-again, evangelical Christian.'
What rubbish. He's nothing of the sort. He's idolatrous at best, blasphemous would be more like it. And there are sheeple in this country who seem to think that he and Jesus were twins, separated at birth, for pete's sake.

HOW can people be SO BLIND???????

[PartyPooper]

4. "HOW can people be SO BLIND???????"

Because they choose to be so. And, they listen and watch FAUX "news".

:eyes:

[lovuian]

5. What this article is saying is the Japaneese scientists are

saying this is a real terrible threat and if they don't clean up Iraq
its going to be a country nobody is going to want...

4.5 billion years is a long time!!!

[factcheck]

11. Well...

Yes, 4.5 billion years is a LONG time, but that is not really the WHOLE story.

Try this: DU has a 'half-life' of 4.5 billion years. That essentially means it loses half of its potency after 4.5 billion years. Then half of that after another 4.5 billion (it would be 1/4 as dangerous after 9 billion years). This decay would continue until it was harmless sometime after several hundred billion years at least.

Of course, the largest problem with DU is not with it in a truly solid form. It is when it is in a form that can be inhaled. But there is plenty of that essentially lying around and can be kicked up in windstorms, etc.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Actually, I don't believe they use depleted uranium in cluster bombs

DU is for armor piercing because it is denser than the armor. Cluster bombs are anti-personnel weapons -- they're bad enough on their own. Birth defects would be from the parent's exposure to DU in a combat zone.

Can't disagree with anything else you said.

[Chicago Democrat]

6. How are Depleted Uranium Shells different from 'dirty bombs'?

And why is it OK for America to just spread TONS OF this material all over Iraq even though it will be toxic FOREVER.

Justice? War of Choice? Who chooses this? Just who is the enemy?

White is NOT BLACK!!!

[lovuian]

7. Our poor troops should be using special masks so they don't

breath this stuff!!!

[shraby]

9. Our media is much more concerned

with Mary Cheney, Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson. How would they ever have time to cover depleted uranium stories?????

[seventhson]

10. Radiation is a HUGE problem globally

and we are underinformed or misinformed:

go here for better info


www.radiation.org