by StarmanSkye » Wed May 24, 2006 7:24 pm
Military denials about the use of DU weapons in Iraq are flat-out lies -- as we know.<br><br>The bastards think they can lie with impunity -- and Congress lets them get away with it. Can't speak to the British arsenal <br>-- But American munitions feature DU, all the way down to M-50 and M-60 machine-gun rounds, and I've even heard about .223 and 30-calibre DU-rounds.<br><br>The DU poisoning of Afghanistan and Iraq are not only war-crimes (of many), but constitute ecocide and genocide, following the tradition of chemical warfare in SE Asia via Agent Orange dioxin-poisoning, which is STILL killing people and causing genetic defects and childhood illnesses today. America's war crimes will haunt future generations, tracing horrors to the repugnant, illegitimate Bush Dynasty and their cronies.<br>Shame.<br>Starman<br>******<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.thedubyareport.com/wmd1.html">www.thedubyareport.com/wmd1.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>From Major Doug Rokke:<br>--quote--<br>Each individual tank round that's fired by the Abrams tank is over 10 pounds of solid uranium 238. We know from US Department of Energy reports and also from the US Army Environmental Policy Institute report it is also contaminated with plutonium, neptunium, and americium in many cases. Uranium munition that's fired by the A10 "Warthog" aircraft, is approximately 3/4 of a pound for each individual round, and the A10 can fire at a rate of up to 4000 rounds a minute. That's a ton and a half of solid uranium fired into a target per minute. The uranium munitions are also contained in a lot of the bunker buster bombs, and also sub-munitions -- land mines -- such as the ADAM and PDM. We also have it in a 25mm round that is fired by the Bradley fighting vehicle, and also by the US Marine Corps's LAV. In addition to that we have a 20mm round that's fired by the Navy --- that's the Phalanx Naval System. So what we're seeing is because uranium munitions are absolutely effective in combat, they are an absolute killer and destroyer, the military has put them into almost every munition they can think of. It's extremely effective. It kills and destroys everything that it hits. <br> <br>[W]hen you use uranium munitions, what happens is each individual round, once it leaves the barrel of the gun that fired it, catches fire, 'cause uranium is pyrophoric. So it's already on fire as the round races down range to hit any target. It can be a building it can be a lightweight vehicle, a car or a truck, it can be a tank or it can be an armored personnel carrier. It's effective on everything.... Now when it impacts, you have a 10 pound round of solid uranium, that's fired by the Abrams tank. When that impacts, about 40% or about 4 pounds turns into what we call uranium spalling and oxides. That stuff is on fire, moving extremely high velocity across a confined space, and causes secondary detonations, either due to concussion, or due to ignition (burning). <br>Within 25 to 50 meters of such an impact, the contamination from uranium oxides is so extensive that military regulations require that soldiers operating in the area must have skin and respiratory protection. Without such protection, the body suffers the combined effects of heavy metal ingestion and radiological toxin. Health effects include: <br><br>Rashes <br>Cataracts <br>Neurological problems <br>Fibromyalgia <br>Respiratory problems <br>Cancers <br><br>Government awareness of some of these heath effects was documented as early as October 1943. Rokke and members of the team that were tasked to clean up the DU "mess" from Gulf War I, themselves suffered health problems typically associated with heavy metal and radiological toxins. Rokke's own exposure was from inhalation due to faulty gas masks -- masks he asserts are still faulty today. All the members of his team were sick within 24 hours of exposure to DU contamination. Cancers began to appear among members of his team within 8 or 9 months. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
