GIs’ brains fried by military dispensed nose candy

[ensho]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6416.shtml


Now it is official. Researchers have shown that uranium oxide, or DU, “travels the nerves from the nose to the brain,” in the words of a University of Chicago doctor and researcher.

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A tiny amount (a milligram) of this radioactive poison quick marches up your smelling nerves right into your brain and keeps firing 1.2 Million bullets a day -- forever. That’s a bunch.
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(stars are mine)

850 rounds a minute

The radioactive 850 rounds a minute automatic weapon is about as big as the period at the end of this sentence, never needs reloading and never jams. It’s a perfect killing machine for brain cells and other cells. The range is about 20 cells, after that there is what the famous British physicist Dr. Chris Busby calls the “bystander effect.” He discovered it, he gets to name it.

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This radioactive bullet explanation for Vets unusual behaviors holds water and makes perfect sense to me. The Vets are under attack internally. Actually inside their skulls and in their brains. Worse, there’s nothing they can do about it. The huge VA system is also helpless. There is no cure and no treatment.
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NO CURE, NO TREATMENT

no wonder they are killing themselves and loved ones.

and the Iraqis have to breath the stuff 24/7 and it shows when they try to produce healthy babies. not happening. babies are deformed beyond living.

american neo cons did this to Iraq and to our military. (and before that in other countries)

and here in our war factories the workers also have DU in their brains. ask their families how life has been for them.

we are so guilty.

[GreenPartyVoter]

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[RandomThoughts]

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[SteppingRazor]

3. Wow, what a god-awful headline.

Nose candy is a euphemism for cocaine. Whoever's writing headlines at National Journal needs some work.

[w4rma]

6. It's a perfect headline. Quite accurate. (nt)

[gratuitous]

4. Oh, how can you say we're guilty?

We're Americans! It's okay when we do something. Take last night, for instance. NBC Nightly News did a story on the conviction and sentencing of Faisal Shahzad, and how he was going to prison for the rest of his life for planting a bomb that didn't go off, and that killed no one. However, NBC helpfully showed a demonstration of what would have happened if the bomb had exploded, and how many people could have been killed or injured, and all the property damage that would have ensued. If the bomb had exploded.

Then they segued into a story about the latest U.S. drone attack that was supposed to kill some Al Qaeda leader. The leader escaped, but the bomb (dropped without warning on people who couldn't fight back or get away) hit a house and killed seven people inside. The seven were described as "German jihadists," which apparently made it all right (and who is to say how the deceased might be described in a few days, weeks or months, if anybody even cares to follow up). The person who flipped the switch on the drone will undoubtedly return to a hero's welcome, be feted in his home town, and be paid a government pension for life. And who knows what might be happening in his brain? What would be worse: A lifetime of remorse eating away at his conscience, or feeling absolutely nothing?

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ensho.

[Blue Owl]

7. GWB's Freedom Dust

in all its evil glory. How those warmongering fucks can live with themselves, I'll never know.

[wuvuj]

8. The light at the end of the tunnel....

...and the end of our military as we know it? Looks like maybe they finally found the final solution? Agent Orange didn't do it.

[thereismore]

9. That light is firmly embedded in the victims' brains it seems. Humans are poison to ourselves. nt

[Mnemosyne]

10. Another for the list of US war crimes. KnR n/t

[maryf]

11. K&Rnt

[Vehl]

12. K&R

Depleted Uranium rounds are a curse, and those who say they don't cause any harm just enable the Armament companies to condemn even more soldiers and civilians to early deaths.

[Cowpunk]

13. Wait, DU causes brain damage?

The Freepers are gonna love this.

[Recursion]

14. Oh for God's sake... Uranium Oxide is not Depleted Uranium

Depleted uranium is an isotope of uranium that is much less radioactive than normal uranium (hence, "depleted"). When it is being treated for long-term storage, it's oxidized for stability (once oxidized it can't burn); this produces uranium oxide.

APFSDS/DU and other rounds using depleted uranium use an alloy of DU and molybdenum, not uranium oxide, and they use it because its mass lets the round punch through armor without having to use much more toxic and dangerous high-explosive rounds.

[L0oniX]

15. -1

[Recursion]

16. Which of my statements do you think was untrue? NT

[L0oniX]

17. Uranium oxide comes from DU.

When a DU round or bomb strikes a hard target, most of its kinetic energy is converted to heat " sufficient heat to ignite the DU. From 40% to 70% of the DU is converted to extremely fine dust particles of ceramic uranium oxide (primarily dioxide, though other formulations also occur). Over 60% of these particles are smaller than 5 microns in diameter, about the same size as the cigarette ash particles in cigarette smoke and therefore respirable.

[USArmyParatrooper]

19. Are you sure on that?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-uranium-oxide.htm

Uranium oxide is a radioactive mineral made up of black, grey, or brown crystals that are generally opaque and have a greasy luster. It is also known as uraninite. This ore is the principle source for the commercial extraction of uranium, as it has a relatively high concentration of this element. Uraninite is usually mined from hydrothermal vein deposits and sedimentary rocks, such as sandstone, and can also be recovered as a by-product of gold and silver mining.

[USArmyParatrooper]

18. "uranium oxide, or DU"

Uranium Oxide is NOT DU.

Although Depleted Uranium is something that shouldn't be dismissed as completely harmless, the amount of hysteria and misinformation about it runs rampant. I even saw a thread on this site getting Rec'd like hell.... that claimed that, thanks to DU, the radiological effects on the citizens of Fallujah were worse than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

If DU was as dangerous and harmful as many claim we would have had an Apocalyptic epidemic in the military decades ago. Millions of US forces are exposed to, and work with DU on a regular basis. Abrams tankers have been swimming in the stuff for decades.

The real risk of DU has nothing to do with radiation. It has to do with heavy metal toxicity. When a DU round is expended it incinerates, becoming a dark charcoal-like substance. If you get it on your hands and then eat, or if you breathe large amounts of the dust before it settles - that is the type of exposure that can cause health problems.

[MattBaggins]

20. I wonder if the "Doha Dash" is reponsible for my headaches and memory problems.

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabi.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqDhGH_TqKc

I was there for that explosion and remember the debris that was scattered from one end of the base to the other. Official Military propaganda is that no troops outside of EOD were exposed to DU but this is an outright lie. Schwarzkopf was coming to the base a week or so after; and instead of rescheduling, they had my Troop clear the main road outside of the motor-pool where it happened. We had only our Nomex mechanic suits and leather gloves. We picked up DU SABOT rounds by hand tossing them into the backs of trucks. We also swept the roads clear with street brooms and no masks at all.

I see people that I worked daily with for five years and haven't seen in about a year. I have to stand there awkwardly when I can't introduce them to my wife because I can't remember their names.

Yesterday I pulled out my ATM card that I have had for over a year and used just last week. I walked away from the ATM machine because I had no clue whatsoever what the pin number was. Complete blank.

I'm only 41.

[ensho]

21. hugs and kisses, wishing you well

nt