Effects of depleted uranium - from the last gulf war

[bolshevik1917]

Do you think these babies and their parents feel liberated? http://www.ecoglobe.org.nz/nuclear/dupict00.htm

[Wolfie]

i know, sick isnt it, theres some even more shcoking pics on this website i found:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extre...eformities.html (http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extremedeformities.html)

[lukecrouch]

No, those people were not liberated. The purpose of the 1991 war was to push Iraq out of Kuwait. I'm sure at the time you were calling for the US to continue the war and remove Hussein entirely weren't you?

The sanctions brought onto the Iraqi people are the fault of Saddam Hussein, not the US. It was our mistake to leave him in power.

We're not making that mistake this time. We're going to whip his ass out of the country so we can start helping these people without worrying that their government is going to take advantage of our aid and build weapons.

[Pete]

And then, Luke, you will Liberate Syria and Iran. Then I guess Jordan and Egypt will fall, the PLO will be crushed, Pakistan and the other 'middle stans' will be 'liberated.' Israel will stay as it, because it is free already.

You will give them "the freedom to die from a curable disease, the freedom watch their children's stomach swell and burst, the freedom to starve and die without land or liberty" (Zach de la Rocha, The Land of Liberty. Unreleased.)

[Zombie]

well said Pete:)

luke, the sanctions and the bombings were and still are the US' fault. stop putting the blame on someone else, we all know how easy that can be.

[Anti communist]

How do we know that those birth defects are the result of DU. They could be the result of the chemical attack on the Kurds that killed thousands. They might not even be Iraqi babies. Maybe this is part of the Iraqi propaganda machine.

[Pete]

You suspect everything to be a conspiracy from Saddam but nothing from America? Or am I missing something?

[Anti communist]

No, it could be either but we don't know for sure. However, when you take into account that Saddam is a known murder, lier, and ethnic cleanser, and also that the US troops handle this depleted uranium ammo on a regular basis (and the fact that the press would be all over it if those soldiers' babies started having birth defects above the normal rates), then you have to at least question wether that propaganda is legitimate or not.

[Pete]

Many things the American media says must, then aswell, be taken with a grain of salt. Compare Fox News to CBC News and some Irish channel. They may cover teh same thing but say different things.

[canikickit]

US troops handle this depleted uranium ammo on a regular basis

You don't understand how DU does its damage.

What happens is, after the shells explode, there is a dust which settle in the vicinity of the explosion, this does is made up of depleted uranium and whatever else happened to be in the area. When people are in this area, they kick up and unsettle the dust, which then becomes airbourne. It is when this dust is inhaled that the damage can be done.

[Pete]

These are those 'dirty bombs' that I have been hearing about it seems... safe until they go off.

[Zombie]

im probably gonna say something stupid here, but some of those deformed babies are actually alive; why? i mean, if it was my child, i think i'd kill it.
Isn't it better to kill it rather than making it suffer a living hell? i mean look at those pics and tell me you wouldn't want to end their suffering!
Just came back from a tiring day and that thought ran through my mind more than once... is it wrong to think like that?

[Anti communist]

You're scaring me Zombie..........LOL

[peaccenicked]

http://www.rense.com/AAA.jpg

[Umoja]

Furthermore, in Vieques off the Coast of Puerto Rico, where they test DU the Cancer rate is significantly higher then mainland Puerto Rico. The crap from DU doesn't go away. It's bad stuff.

[abstractmentality]

"...US troops handle this depleted uranium ammo on a regular basis..." -Anti communist

You should read this article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...13/MN233872.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/13/MN233872.DTL)

According to this article, "the U.N. Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights... ha[s] already labeled [DU] a weapon of mass destruction."

it also goes on to say that "[DU] -- which w[as] also used by U.S. forces in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia in far smaller quantities -- may be a cause of Gulf War diseases, elusive maladies that have affected 50,000 to 80,000 U.S. veterans of the 1991 conflict."

for an unbiased report of the effects of DU on the children of Iraq, look no further than Takashi Morizumi's (http://www.morizumi-pj.com/iraq/iraq.html) pictures and stories.


(Edited by abstractmentality at 2:32 pm on April 4, 2003)

[peaccenicked]

Gulfwar syndrome II.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7570

[Anonymous]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/untitled10.JPG

It would be interesting to study these infant's genetic structures. I wonder what type of mutation could have caused the vermix to become that thick?

BTW, I doubt they're Iraqi infants. Probably just a collection of pictures from multiple sources. You can get pictures of deformed babies all over the internet. Believe me, I know.

[Boris Moskovitz]

I don't know whether it's really Iraqi childs or not, but I only have one thing to say all of us should agree on: It's disturbing...