http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/2860759.stm
http://www.iacenter.org/du_forum504.htm
We’re dropping DEPLETED URANIUM all over Iraq???
What kind of weapon is it when you poison a country with radioactive material that leads to all kinds of terrible birth defects and cancer? Chemical, biological, nuclear? I say all three. And a WMD for sure.
This is not the way to win hearts and minds. You cannot expect a country to be grateful about something like that. Iraqis are not ignorant savages without knowledge of science and history. The know exactly what’s happening to them, and reacting in a predictable way.
It doesn’t matter whether you support the war or not, using depleted uranium is an act of indiscriminate, criminal barbarity. I remember what John Kerry said in his 1971 testimony, in reference to the napalm and Agent Orange we were using to douse Vietnam: “We fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using were we fighting in the European theater.”
I fail to see how using DU is saving a single American life or advancing our cause one bit. What say you, hawks?
And don't say I hate America.
