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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Apparently it's half life is in fact 4500000000 years
cancer rate gone up by 700% in afghanistan since 2001.
Thank you America for liberating us from this brutal regime.My daughter to be will probably have an extra few fingers but at least I will soon be able to treat her to a Big Mac in downtown Baghdad and buy her a Barbie doll.Thank You.It's great to be liberated.
Setting off depleted Uranium in a civilian city is mass murder.
The US/UK have been using DU all along. These latest "bunker busters" are just a bit bigger. When you see missiles or bombs that leave a bright glow when they fly , that is the depleted uranium coating "warming up ". One mouthful of the dust from the blast and your a gonner in months if not less.
Why is the UN not calling on these Butchers of Baghdad to stop?
They have to be sidelined immediately so that water and food can be distributed. It is their obligation under international law for an army of occupation to provide adequate care for those under it's occupation. This care is not to be conditional.
The war crimes are piling up and our government is guilty as hell -where they will reside long hereafter.
DU rounds are used in sabot rounds from tanks and A10s, not in "bunker buster" bombs - there's no advantage in using DU in those bombs and serious drawbacks (namely that the DU casing would absorb the explosive force from the high explosive within the bomb thus making it less effective). DU doesn't glow unless heated to a _very_ high temperature, the same as every other metal.
The MOAB has been described as being a fuel-air explosive weapon, but in fact it isn't - it's "just" 17,000lb of high explosive (wrapped in 4,000lb of casing).
The use of these weapons is horrific and should be opposed strongly in just about every case I can think of - but for pity's sake get your facts straight or you not only get yourself discredited as a crank, but you allow the pro-war movement to discredit the entire anti-war movement as know-nothing cranks.
Why not point out the facts instead of hyperbole? Like the cancer rates in afghanistan or the levels of radioactivity suffered by UN teams evaluating the use of DU in Iraq in the first gulf war. Or the lesser-publicised facts, like the fact that british soldiers are now wearing iraqi boots because their own are melting.