How America Nukes Its Own Troops - Death By Slow Burn

AMY WORTHINGTON / The Idaho Observer (Spirit Lake)
What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means

On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.

Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.

Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.1 Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.2 The M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.3 These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed with DU shells, which continually irradiate troops in or near them.4 The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the battlefield.5

DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.

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I had wondered how long it was going to take you before you started ranting at the Brits as well. I am fully aware of how you kind calls us the Thug Brothers.

I am also fully aware also of what a worthless bunch of spineless cowards your group is composed of, using hysterical fear of anything you are too afraid to deal with as an excuse to whine and worship yourselves at your self built alters of victim godhood.

Of course you could prove me wrong and bring your sweet little group down to Hotlanta for a protest.

Where on earth do you dig this stuff up from???

and its in the wrong section

http://www.clubconspiracy.com/ ... ? Sound a reliable bunch

That's actually all I needed to see. Thank Christ I always scroll down to the bottom of articles to see the source.

grrr, i hate conspiracy theorists like this. when you try and talk about a serious, real conspiracy, people blow it off because they read crap like this and think conspiracies do not exist and are a figment of our imagination.

This is really not even close to a world event...

DU does not pose a radiation hazard to anyone.

I remember talking to our Gunner about depleted uranium. One of the things he said was "Sure, breathing in radiactive dust will double your chances for cancer. The part they left out was the only time you would be breathing in radioactive dust is when you are in the car that just got hit by depleted uranium rounds. Chances are that cancer is pretty much the last thing on your mind right then."

DU has been blamed for the effects of Gulf war syndrome -- typified by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss -- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict.

It is also cited as the most likely cause of the 'increased number of birth deformities and cancer in Iraq' following the first Gulf war.

'Cancer appears to have increased between seven and 10 times and deformities between four and six times,' according to the UN subcommission.

The Pentagon has admitted that 320 metric tons of DU were left on the battlefield after the first Gulf war, although Russian military experts say 1000 metric tons is a more accurate figure.

In 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.

The use of DU has also led to birth defects in the children of Allied veterans and is believed to be the cause of the 'worrying number of anophthalmos cases -- babies born without eyes' in Iraq. Only one in 50 million births should be anophthalmic, yet one Baghdad hospital had eight cases in just two years. Seven of the fathers had been exposed to American DU anti-tank rounds in 1991. There have also been cases of Iraqi babies born without the crowns of their skulls, a deformity also linked to DU shelling.

A study of Gulf war veterans showed that 67% had children with severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems and fused fingers.

Rokke told the Sunday Herald: 'A nation's military personnel cannot wilfully contaminate any other nation, cause harm to persons and the environment and then ignore the consequences of their actions.

'To do so is a crime against humanity.

http://www.sundayherald.com/32522

The uranium remaining after removal of the enriched fraction contains about 99.8% 238U, 0.2% 235U and 0.001% 234U by mass; this is referred to as depleted uranium or DU.
The main difference between DU and natural uranium is that the former contains at least three times less 235U than the latter.
DU, consequently, is weakly radioactive and a radiation dose from it would be about 60% of that from purified natural uranium with the same mass.
The behaviour of DU in the body is identical to that of natural uranium.



Due to its high density, about twice that of lead, the main civilian uses of DU include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines and containers for the transport of radioactive materials. The military uses DU for defensive armour plate.
DU is used in armour penetrating military ordnance because of its high density, and also because DU can ignite on impact if the temperature exceeds 600°C.


Not to worry because... About 98% of uranium entering the body via ingestion is not absorbed, but is eliminated via the faeces. Typical gut absorption rates for uranium in food and water are about 2% for soluble and about 0.2% for insoluble uranium compounds.
The fraction of uranium absorbed into the blood is generally greater following inhalation than following ingestion of the same chemical form. The fraction will also depend on the particle size distribution. For some soluble forms, more than 20% of the inhaled material could be absorbed into blood.
Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.
Later on they mention taking sodium bi-carb to increase excretion or uranium!!!!!

Who's kidding who!@!!!

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/

Asides from you personal incredulity, is there any reason why you do not believe this would work?

Honestly, I'm hearing a lot of scary words, but I'm not seeing the logic and rational that would really make me worry. I agree DU definitly merits further study, but all I have seen so far is a bit of fear mongering. I'll wait till WHO finishes it's studies, and read what they have to say.

Reminds me a bit of all the people that used to cry about lead getting in to the water system from the bullets being used in the target range. Just enough knowledge to be dangerous, not enough to actually get anything done.

Check this out:

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Effects/wenw_chp1.shtml
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/...sp?sitearea=PED
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/atmosphr/
http://www.thebulletin.org/nuclear_weapons_data/

And if we were talking about nuclear weapons, this would be very relevant. But we are not. We are talking about depleted uranium, which is nowhere near the same thing as nuclear weapons.

I was in basic training at Fort Benning not too long ago.
They are using DU in the Abrams atleast.
They told us also that our M16/M4 rounds would be DU tipped as those can go through more solid objects.

Troops are being affected by it because of the inhalation of the dust as someone mentioned. NOT FROM RADIATION. And contrary to what some of you guys are thinking they are fighting in very close quarters over there. The Du bullets don't land so far from the gun errr I mean the weapon.

This is what they were telling us in Basic. Seems that the officers are the nice guys who tell you what is actually up and the NCO's just bust your ass. Mabey different after Basic. Sadly I was kicked out for my hearing. Need atleast 2 operations on my ear.

Back on topic yeah they use DU... Lots and Lots of it. The army loves the stuff.

-Muddy

"The uranium remaining after removal of the enriched fraction contains about 99.8% 238U, 0.2% 235U and 0.001% 234U by mass; this is referred to as depleted uranium or DU.
The main difference between DU and natural uranium is that the former contains at least three times less 235U than the latter.
DU, consequently, is weakly radioactive and a radiation dose from it would be about 60% of that from purified natural uranium with the same mass.
The behaviour of DU in the body is identical to that of natural uranium. "

...so what the Medical journal says is that DU has a 1/3 of the radiation of regular uranium....
So that still makes it quite dangerous...does it not?????


It is made of Nuclear waste!!!..I gather turning it into weapons is one way of getting rid of it...you recycle it...and those smart companies that came up with that idea are making a mint....I suppose other countries can pay to get it off their hands... and wow!! what a money spinner!!!... And they said that Nuclear waste was a problem!!!!

That you had to bury it somewhere safe for 1000's of years before it is no longer harmfull...

No one is saying that DU is not radioactive. No one is even saying that it isn't dangerous. What I was saying was that it is pointless to post all that info pertaining to nuclear weapons when what we are talking about is DU. Out of all those previous links and data you posted, the only thing you were able to bring up was that DU had 1/3 the radiation of regular uranium. Frankly, that seems more like you tried to overwhelm the opposite side with a barrage of information, and when called on it, this tidbit was all that you were able to bring out.

Interesting reading these two articles.. they SO contradict each other!!!!

http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/Archive_Index...ed_Uranium.html


http://www.ccnr.org/bcma.html#occ