Never Forget: Depleted Uranium will help ensure that Iraq doesn't... watch!
ericblumrich.com — Even though our pretenses for being there were a lie, we have seen fit to leave a poisonous legacy in the middle east that will be a blight on them for generations to come. This also includes disastrous consequences for our own troops. Remember next time you pay your taxes that at least 25-50% of that money is funding this...
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- darkciti2, on 10/13/2007, -2/+225-50% is a bit of a stretch I think, but it's certainly something that should be monitored.
- loudestnoise, on 10/13/2007, -0/+225-50% is not a stretch, if anything it is a low bid.
- kaelyiesta, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1If the military branch is considered responsible for this action, then it's an accurate number. Military spends 51% of federal taxes or $1,228 billion as of 2008. It all depends on how specific you want to be.
- loudestnoise, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3That is some messed up stuff. I had no idea. That is not cool at all.
- ContraryLemming, on 11/10/2007, -0/+5Holy *****! Government is evil!? Who would have thunk? :)
- levendus, on 10/13/2007, -1/+5Well it was a slick presentation. Pretty cool animation even if it was nothing but a bunch of gratuitous assertions.
None of the figures were cited, so we can't check their veracity. But here's the conclusion of the study that is the source of the oft-cited 67% Gulf War Vet stat:
CONCLUSION
We observed a higher prevalence of tricuspid valve insufficiency, aortic valve stenosis, and renal agenesis or hypoplasia among infants conceived postwar to GWV men, and a higher prevalence of hypospadias among infants conceived postwar to female GWVs. We did not have the ability to determine if the excess was caused by inherited or environmental factors, or was due to chance because of myriad reasons, including multiple comparisons. Although the statistical power was sufficient to compare the combined birth defects prevalence, larger sample sizes were needed for less frequent individual component defects. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 67:246-260, 2003. Published 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
source:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstrac ...
A rather large poetic license is being used with this stat.
As for the tonnage "dropped", even if all 405 tonnes were dropped on Iraq, it would increase the amount of DU (or U238) by .0007%. There is approximately 677,140 tonnes of naturally occurring DU in the soil. (source: DOE estimates 4 tons of uranium in the top 12inches of top soil per square mile.)
Being skeptical of government is fine, but being credulous to every anti-government assertion is not proof that one is a free-thinker.- Adamande, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3Well, you know it took them 30 years to admit Agent Orange damaged US soldiers in Vietnam and cough up the benefits, so I'm not expecting them to change the official version on the "safety" of DU any time soon.
Yes, uranium is natural and exists abundantly in the soil. But the uranium in the soil isn't suddenly lit ablaze with fire and spread around in the open air, where it can travel and be inhaled for miles. That's when the alpha radiation of the DU, flaming hot after exploding, enters your respiratory system and sticks to your insides like glue.
Studies of American Veterans from Kosovo showed high concentration of uranium in the urine even eight years after combat, and several European countries had peace-workers die from leukemia and other cancers after working in the region. Not to mention the UN Environmental Programme were surprised to see Uranium still airborne in DU sites from the war when they conducted their study two years after the shells were fired.
Shell-holes in Iraqi tanks hit by DU weapons under the first Gulf war have been measured to emit 1000 times more radiation than normal background-radiation. Even the battlefield emits 100 times more than background-radiation while a large city like Basra radiates about the same as background.
"While acknowledging the hazards, both the Pentagon and NATO, pointing to medical experts, have denied that any links could exist between exposure to depleted uranium and the illness and deaths of veterans. " (NYTimes)
Isn't it strange then, how both civilians, peace keepers and soldiers exposed to DU-radiation keep getting all these weird inexplicable cancerous "syndromes"?
http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/01-19/uranium.html
http://www.hermes-press.com/depluran.htm
http://www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/bein/apologist ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12. ...
http://www.europaworld.org/issue75/depleteduranium ...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0 ...
- Adamande, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3Well, you know it took them 30 years to admit Agent Orange damaged US soldiers in Vietnam and cough up the benefits, so I'm not expecting them to change the official version on the "safety" of DU any time soon.
- DeletedUser, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1Its use in ammunition is controversial because of its release into the environment. Besides its residual radioactivity, U-238 is a heavy metal whose compounds are known from laboratory studies to be toxic to mammals. However, there has never been a definitive toxicological link established in humans and it is believed that low and moderate exposures to depleted uranium pose little if any toxicological threat. -Wikipedia
- Prototek, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1I think it could use more pictures of birth defects.
- blackpanther2, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1How about dying US Troops?
How about young healthy males dying of cancer..would that do the trick?
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- blackpanther2, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1How about dying US Troops?
- blackpanther2, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1US Troops and 911 Survivors both are suffering from unusual blood cancers. For more information about depleted uranium, please visit this site
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