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Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by SpaceJockey1
These Iraqi families should get a top international lawyer and sue the USA
Originally posted by EmperorXyn
How would you not know if someone is using nuclear bombs???
Originally posted by wrkn4livn
Originally posted by EmperorXyn
How would you not know if someone is using nuclear bombs???
My understanding is that new technologies cause the bombs to detonate much more efficiently that the Hiroshima days so they can be considerably smaller, with a bigger punch, and less have less fallout. I think it's feasible. Great test base anyway. Who would know?
Originally posted by EmperorXyn
How would you not know if someone is using nuclear bombs???
Originally posted by Jim Scott
Depleted uranium is less radioactive than natural uranium by a factor of 40%. As a kid, I had uranium in my chemistry set. No ill effects. You probably have radium on your watch hands, if you have watch hands. You breathe radon gas. You are exposed to solar radiation. You get an xray once in awhile. www.gulflink.osd.mil...
More than likely, the birth defects are a result of incest in the region, or poor living conditions during warfare. As you know, we try to keep our women as healthy as possible whenever they are pregnant.edit on 1/3/2012 by Jim Scott because: reference
Originally posted by 46ACE
The military uses many toxic metals in its equipment for various properties:
"Berylium" is another one I remember; its dust is toxic when handled/machined (heated). Depleted Uranium is another metal it is molded and machined into projectiles to penetrate armor; not "dipped" or "tipped" as mentioned above.
O.p.You still haven't addressed my dispute of your: raptor pilot/"MOS" comment...
All your sources are typical hysterical liberal anti-war/environmentalist "types". You are spreading wild speculation.
Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
Originally posted by 46ACE
The military uses many toxic metals in its equipment for various properties:
"Berylium" is another one I remember; its dust is toxic when handled/machined (heated). Depleted Uranium is another metal it is molded and machined into projectiles to penetrate armor; not "dipped" or "tipped" as mentioned above.
O.p.You still haven't addressed my dispute of your: raptor pilot/"MOS" comment...
All your sources are typical hysterical liberal anti-war/environmentalist "types". You are spreading wild speculation.
Sorry, am on a different time-zone to you.
You appear to be very much in DENIAL.
Regarding the MOS comment, you've got your wires crossed. I was ONLY replying to someone who had asked what MOS stood for (something that was discussed in a post by someone ELSE). I wasn't commenting on whether the person who mentioned it, was correct in its use in his post.
Originally posted by M1FST91
I really don't want to comment much on this due to my families well being but after serving and coming home a year or so later I was diagnosed with liver cancer and I know of at least 5 others that are close friends of mine have the same thing. I'm not saying its from my deploy but what are the odds.... Oh and my mos is a fighter pilot raptors. Just my experience... Read betw----------------.
Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
Why are you denighers discussing NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS in this thread, so as to derail it???
NEVER said anything about dropping NUKES!
We're talking about DU being added to CONVENTIONAL WEAPONARY, that VAPORIZES on impact and creates a TOXIC RADIOACTIVE CLOUD.
Handling DU is supposedly quite safe, but once exploded it's highly toxic and dangerous.
Causing ongoing deaths after a war breaks many international conventions. There have been WAR CRIMES committed.
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” — Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam.”
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
The American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi — Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.