What’s a little depleted uranium in the yard if it helps defeat them terrorists?

[The Straight Story]

What’s a little depleted uranium in the yard if it helps defeat them terrorists?

The following lead paragraph of an April 11, 2007, article caught my eye--or, more likely, pierced it with a radioactive-hot poker:

Proposed explosives tests upwind from Tracy will release as much as 450 pounds of radioactive depleted uranium dust into the air every year, according to an air pollution permit application filed Friday by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Reading the entire item reminded me of my reaction when I first viewed the Project for the New American Century’s Web site several years ago: It had to be a bad fraternity prank gone even badder.

I called the contact number in the piece, hoping I’d get a kegged-out trickster at Whadda Loda Krappa.

Unfortunately, John Upton of the Tracy Press answered, assuring me his column was, indeed, legit. Worse, he informed that the mainstream media hadn’t touched the story.

Depleted-uranium blasts conducted where millions live, yet nary a peep from established news organizations? What’s wrong with this picture?

If you boast a military-industrial complexion, belong to the National Undertakers Association or are George W. Bush, the answer is: not a damn thing. Ditto if you’re the whoreporate media, the administration’s mouthpiece that excels in disseminating propaganda and disinformation or, in this case, no information at all.

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=335809

[OneBlueSky]

1. the use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq constitutes a violation of international law . . .

of the first order . . . the number of those kinds of violations committed by BushCo is staggering . . .

what's even more staggering is the failure of the Congress -- OUR representatives -- to do anything to stop them . . . not to mention any number of international bodies, starting with the UN and working down . . .

that failure leaves us with one foot firmly embedded in an emerging fascist dictatorship quagmire . . . whether we get completely sucked in, or are able to successfully and completely extract ourselves, is the burning question of our time, imo . . .