The Case Against Dep. Uranium

[cormacobear]

http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2006nn/0602nn/060228nn.txt

[Janus]

That site is in a strange format.

But one should be more worried about the other weapons that the gov. is developing and the ones that they already have.

But what did they expect, governments see soldiers as cannon fodder.

[Sadena Meti]

It is a major piece of disinformation (put forth by activists) that the problem with DU has something to do with radiation. It doesn't. In fact, quite a lot of DU is atomicaly stable, no radiation at all. That which is radioactive is fairly benign, you'll run into higher doses domestically.

The problem with DU is toxicity. It's a nasty heavy metal, makes eating lead seem like a reasonable cuisine. That's why it causes health problems and birth defects. The radiation is nominal. Same reason I don't worry that my tap water has twice the allowed level of Radium in it (yummy).

DU should be discussed as a toxic poison, not as a nuclear weapon.

That being said, I think the solution is to pass a law that the war mongers who say DU is safe should be forced to sprinkle some on their cereal every morning.

[Forward Union]

Damn you I was going to start this thread. :P


The Case Against Dep. Uranium

The significance of this being that as a result of the Ruling class's desire for quick efficient and profitable warfare, they have left a "poisonous legacy" that will be killing people for 4.5 billion years, or at least, will pose a potential threat for that long.

A pretty good video, although it contains graphic images...

http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html

In an interview with U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott said:

"We went to a hospital in Southern Iraq, and a woman was there with a very deformed child and her husband had been in the Iraqi Army and had been
in the battles in Southern Iraq and came home and they produced a baby with very severe malformations... Both the Leukemia rates in children and
malformations at birth had increased by 600% and it was clearly an epidemic where all this DU had been dumped... It becomes a dust that can be
inhaled and infect the blood stream and the rest of the body and it was the opinion of the doctors there that this was caused by depleted uranium...
They simply saw this as being a direct result of the war by United States..."

"The doctor said, 'Women {in Iraq} at the time of birth don't ask if
it's a boy or a girl, they ask: Is it normal?'...The military denies first, and then after the evidence builds to the point where they can no longer deny, then they do the research. That's what happened in the Vietnam era around Agent Orange and I suspect and I'm worried that that's what will happen this time..."

many results and statistics produced about DU are misleading and in some cases inaccurate. For example, it's classification as "depleted" implies that is has lost most of it's hazardous potential (though it is 60% less hazardous than enriched uranium WHO (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/)), but this is simply not relevent. How dangerous it is in comparason to something worse means very little. It's still a fucking sick weapon. (see any of the above)

For those of you with a strong stomach, it is good to get some perspective on how horrifiying and criminal the capitalists use of this weapon is,

the effects of DU on babies (http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/gulf_war_syndrome/uranium_infanticide.html)

More info;
http://www.cadu.org.uk/

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 04:54 PM
That site is in a strange format.

But one should be more worried about the other weapons that the gov. is developing and the ones that they already have.

But what did they expect, governments see soldiers as cannon fodder.
This isn't about soldiers. Watch the video and images I linked to and then tell me if you still think we should be more worried about other weapons.