Depleted Uranium--Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

I just did a Google search and ran across this scary article about the use of depleted uranium by the US military on http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/.

I also want to go on record right now as stating emphatically that I am 100 percent opposed to ANY and ALL use of depleted uranium in U.S. weaponry. It is a crime against humanity, all other living beings, and the Earth. Now read the following:

"Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions and agreements, as well as under the US military law. The continued use of this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international issue. The deeper purpose is revealed by comparing regions now contaminated with depleted uranium — from Egypt, the Middle East, Central Asia and the northern half of India — to the US geostrategic imperatives described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book The Grand Chessboard. The fact is that the United States and its military partners have staged four nuclear wars, "slipping nukes under the wire" by using dirty bombs and dirty weapons in countries the US needs to control. Depleted uranium aerosols will permanently contaminate vast regions and slowly destroy the genetic future of populations living in those regions, where there are resources which the US must control, in order to establish and maintain American primacy.

Described as the Trojan Horse of nuclear war, depleted uranium is the weapon that keeps killing. The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth. And, as Uranium-238 decays into daughter radioactive products, in four steps before turning into lead, it continues to release more radiation at each step. There is no way to turn it off, and there is no way to clean it up. It meets the US Government’s own definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere. Global radioactive contamination from atmospheric testing was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs, and still contaminates the atmosphere and lower orbital space today. The amount of low level radioactive pollution from depleted uranium released since 1991, is many times more (deposited internally in the body), than was released from atmospheric testing fallout."

Also, here's another disturbing recent article from http://www.makfax.com.mk:

Balkan syndrome - cause of death of 28 Italian soldiers

Rome, 14:11

As many as 28 Italian soldiers involved in UN missions in the Balkans have died of the so-called Balkan syndrome and other 158 soldiers have been reportedly ill, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quotes extracts from Defense Ministry's annual report submitted to parliament.

The report says testicular cancer, nephropathy and Hodgkin's lymphoma have been identified as cause of death of the Italian peacekeepers serving in the Balkans.

The report says the above mentioned diseases are likely to have been induced by exposure to depleted uranium. The trigger of the disease has not been scientifically confirmed thus far, nonetheless, cancer incidence among military personnel in the Balkans is said to be linked with uranium-tipped weapons.

The report further says that Pentagon has already acknowledged that during NATO-led air strikes on Yugoslavia, alliance's planes had fired nearly 11.000 missiles containing depleted uranium.

Falco Accame, Chairman of Defense Ministry's Board investigating cancer cases among Italian peacekeepers, said nobody could tell for sure that the diseases are linked to depleted uranium exposure, however, "we cannot rule out the link between DU weapons and the death of young people". /end/

http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrArticle=19613&NrIssue=429&NrSection=20

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