This is a rehash of an article I did last October. I updated and reposted it on my site because I think it is an issue that should keep getting publicity, yet is seldom, if ever, mentioned in the mainstream media. The use of DU should be reason enough for everyone to want to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Excerpt:
In 1945, the first nuclear weapons were unleashed on civilians. In 1991 the first nuclear war was fought in Iraq. The second was fought in Serbia in 1999. The third and fourth are still being waged in Afghanistan and Iraq, thanks to our tax dollars, the callousness of the U.S. government and complacency in our media.
You will not like what you see in these photos, but get used to it. People in Afghanistan and Iraq will be seeing things like this for the next 4.5 billion years, because that is the half-life of depleted uranium (DU).
While the Pentagon has continued to claim, against all scientific evidence, that there is no hazard posed by DU, US troops in Iraq have reportedly been instructed to avoid any sites where these weapons have been used. They are instructed to wear masks if they have to approach destroyed Iraqi tanks, exploded bunkers, etc.
DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war – it keeps giving and keeps killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over 20 steps. While the U.S. and British governments claim that DU is a conventional weapon, the truth is that it meets the definition of a weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under the U.S. Federal Code, Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302.
Most Americans know little or nothing about DU and its devastating effect on human life. It’s about time you do. The use of DU munitions is yet another reason to end these wars that are destroying not only lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and the ranks of our military, but also the credibility of our nation in the eyes of the world community.
Read more here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m3d21-The-nuclear-wars-few-talk-about-Depleted-uranium