Depleted Uranium

We're the problem, and I include myself. We demand rights without sacrifice; a handout without exchange of value; a free ride using someone else's wallet. We whine and complain, but fail to vote or to run for office unless there are personal benefits to be gained. We accept third or even fourth rate presidential candidates. We have forgotten family obligations, rights of the unborn and we wear religion on our sleeves, but not in our hearts.

Our soldiers are coming home and dying from DU exposure. Their children from both Gulf Wars are being born with horrible birth defects and yeah, I do get a little emotional about this. A phony "war of liberation" and nation building that is a gross misuse of our military, but fits in perfectly with the plans of the mad power mongers who own Washington, DC.

Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology.

UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.

The widespread use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq has led to a much higher death rate among U.S. military personnel than the Pentagon is willing to admit. The tragedy of Dustin Brim is the untold story of one such casualty.

The most important story of the Afghanistan - Iraq Wars is that Depleted Uranium munitions dust is slowly killing the civilian population -- over the next 20 years, no civilian will be able to live in Iraq. Here, we demonstrate how Nature effectively moves contaminated dust from the battlefield to the cities, and to nations beyond the country's borders.

The use of weapons containing uranium violates existing laws and customs of war and "constitutes a war crime or crime against humanity," according to a leading U.S. expert on humanitarian law.

Far from the radioactive battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan , another war is being waged. This war, over the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, is being fought between the military top brass and the men who understand the dangers of DU: former military doctors and nuclear scientists. This war is for the truth about uranium weapons, and the consequences of their use, and has been waged for more than 13 years-since the U.S. government first used DU weapons against Iraq . Most Americans, however, are unaware of this historic struggle, because the Pentagon has used its power to prevent information about DU from reaching the public.

A growing number of U.S. military personnel who are serving, or have served, in the Persian Gulf, Iraq , and Afghanistan have become sick and disabled from a variety of symptoms commonly known as Gulf War Syndrome. Depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been blamed for causing many of the symptoms.

A United Nations study found DU contaminating air and water seven years after it was used. DU, left over after natural uranium has been enriched, is 1.7 times denser than lead, and very effective for punching through armoured vehicles. When a weapon with a DU tip or core strikes a solid object, like the side of a tank, it goes straight through before erupting in a burning cloud of vapour. This settles as chemically poisonous and radioactive dust.