While medias tell us their lies about the Iranian threat, they hide truth about nuclear warfare from us. Depleted Uranium, used in Iraq and Libya and who knows where, sets massive radiation free that destroys DNA! Ineffable are the consequences for the people affected. Following photos are taken from the Book: "URANIUM PROJECTILES - SEVERELY MAIMED SOLDIERS, DEFORMED BABIES, DYING CHILDREN" from Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther. This are the consequences of DU, used in shells, Tomahawk missiles (each missile typically contains about 360 kg of depleted uranium), etc: Source: http://www.aztlan.net/du_deformed_iraqi_babies.htm Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6009 U.S. Soldiers Are Sick of It: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2006/08/71585?currentPage=all Depleted Uranium (DU) - Silent Genocide: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Silent-Genocide25mar04.htm Info: DU has been blamed for the effects of Gulf War Syndrome – typified by chronic pain, extreme fatigue and an array of diseases. Some studies of Gulf War veterans who had normal babies before the war found that 67% of babies born after the war have severe birth defects, including missing brains, eyes, organs, legs and arms, and blood diseases. In a three week period in 2003 during the genocidal attack on Iraq, estimates indicate that over 1000 tons of DU munitions were used. According to retired Colonel Asof Durakovic, the Pentagon used some 300 tons of DU during the 1991 Gulf War, and another 1700 tons has been used since then. http://www.nuclearreader.info/chapter6.html http://www.nuclearreader.info/chapter7.html
I came across this docu about 1 1/2 years ago. Absolutely sickening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQkgmSaVuk It's quite clear that they don't care about other countries' civilians, but they don't even give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about their own people, the very people they sent into war based on propaganda and lies any dictatorship could learn from. Das sind übrigens echt hässliche Bilder.
The high density of DU give it tremendous AP capabilities. DU is used in armor plating as well as in kinetic AP munitions. Most assuredley none of the pictures provided in that link are due to radiological or chemical injury due acute DU exposure. At present, the battlefield use of DU has not been linked to the ill health of soldiers or civilians in theatre. While the low radioactivity and chemical toxicity of DU can be harmful to human health there has never been a single documented case of DU exsposure resulting in acute pathologies in battlefield conditions. Undoubtedly, the use of DU in munitions may result in exposure to both combatants and non combatants alike there is simply very little if any scientific data to suggest that the use of DU munitions poses a significant long term risk to humans
Yes, the pictures are terrible, but they are posted only for documentary purposes. People need to see the truth. These are definitely the consequences of DU. The propaganda you are fooled by is present of course, but it is just a construct of lies.
You are the one who has been fooled by propaganda. You have no reason to believe those injuries are the result of DU aside from the authors unsupported claims. The OP is riddled with inaccuracies.
What you call propaganda are the results of the inventigation of Siegwart Horst Günther: Professor Siegwart Horst Günther once worked with Albert Schweitzer in Africa. He is a prominent proponent of the disputed claim that the use of depleted uranium in munitions causes cancers, birth defects and other pathologies. In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award honored for the third time Prof. Günther for refusing to back down to pressure and for visiting Iraq to study the real-life consequences of depleted uranium use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegwart_Horst_Günther
The main reason i can find for there use is that they are cheap and plentiful compared to other AP weapons. They're a heavy metal though, they used 340 tons during the first Iraq war, 1,000 tons in Afghanistan, and 2,400 tons in the second Iraq war. I'd assume that's a lot of toxic dust in an arid desert region. Breath it, eat it, get it in cuts it's all no good. That and there is a debate currently on the dangers of it to say there isn't is false. Should have used heat or tungsten rounds DU should be criminalized in warfare, against what they were fighting there is little excuse to use that much. It's cheap so of course there is a human cost instead.
I'm not claiming that DU munitions do not have unique potential dangers relative to HEAT or HESH rounds. What I am arguing is that there is no evidence in the OP that those wounds are in fact the result of DU. I'm also arguing that the evidence-based literature linking DU to pathologies in humans is exceedingly scant. There is no reason to think that DU munitions kill or maime nearly as many civillians as CBUs.
How to prove it? DU has 60 % of the its normal radiation. "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." http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/
This, yet again? Why not just resurect one of the older threads about this very same topic? http://www.politicalforum.com/nucle...apons/187787-depleted-uranium-ammunition.html http://www.politicalforum.com/warfare-military/193303-depleted-uranium-ammunition.html http://www.politicalforum.com/terro...ium-munitions-used-us-forces-afghanistan.html Oh, maybe because they get spanked every single time?
Honestly I went on a bit of a rant, but what would you consider scant evidence. The British ministry of defense thought otherwise even if not publicly admitting it. Other studies suggest prolonged exposure can also lead to leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological issues from chronic exposure. Even American military studies show that those with shrapnel wounds could have a serious toxicological threat. As far as I'm aware there have been no peer reviewed studies in Iraq, but the UK Pensions Appeal Tribunal Service attributed birth defects to claims from a vet so who knows. As you said it could be from a number of other sources but the evidence of the dangers of DU exist the question is how much exposure can humans take before there is damage and has that threshold been passed in some places. Honestly I'm not as concerned about the radiation as I am the toxicity of DU. Yeah cluster bombs suck too they're still finding them in Lao right?
My best friend who was in Iraq 5 years has cancer from Depleted Uranium exposure. Doug Rokke, Leuren Moret and Chris Busby all have PhD's, all have documented DU cancer and birth defects. Every 30 minutes a deformed baby is born in Fallujah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY1cCcynDfA Your erroneous assertion that there is no chemical or radiological injury associated with Uranium is propaganda. DU penetrators contain: U 238 polluted with Americium, Neptunium, Plutonium, U 234, U 235 and U 236 - hardly as benign as you make them out to be. The Plutonium alone is lethal to all life. You were not in Iraq, have never been to Fallujah. People who were there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VkpR-wka8 have a real truthful spin on this. You just sit in an armchair spewing propaganda that is going to get some new army tank recruit killed. Uranium is not chemically or radiologically harmful, what a load of cr@p.
