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"Steve Gehrke" <sgehrke@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I simply do not understand how one can develop an opinion without
> researching all the facts regarding the topic. I just posted to
> another thread regarding DU. The big debate should be how inhumane it
> is - not because of radiation but how it does its damage.

    DU ammunition is reserved  for use as an anti-tank weapon.  It is hard
to be real broken up about people in tanks that have invaded a peacful
country being killed. It is hard to manage a strong "boo-hoo" for the
occupants of those tanks who were just lobbing shells into a Kuwaiti school
a few days before.

 > While DU ammo does leave traces of radiation, it is not harmful except
> for in large quantities. So, there are several battlefields that have
> higher radiation levels. Battlefields do not constitute townships :P

    Even at the worst the radiation is only minimally higher than background
radiation. The gamma radiation is about identical to background, Alpha
particles a bit higher but those are generally considered harmless. There
has been no evidence that there is any significant ratiation on the
battlefields, which, by the way are mainly in Kuwait, not Iraq. Some folks
seem to forget that. And generally one DU anti-tank shell did the job not
thousamds. So the argument of a significantly radioactive battlefield is
wholly crapola.

> > Like the filth in Milwaukee the Bush family is filthy and evil. George
Sr.
> > had munitions made from Depleted Uranium (DU) and ordered them
> > to be used in the Gulf War that many now know was the United
> > States using its military might to prevent Hussein from attacking Kuwait
> > who was assisting the Bush Crime Family Oil Cartel to slant drill under
> > the Iraqi borders to steal Iraq's oil.

Actually DU anti-tank ammunition was designed during the Carter
Administration and deployed then.

> > Military whistle blowers have exposed the facts explaining that the
military
> > expended some 30 MILLION TONS of radioactive waste scattered all
> > over Iraq that Bush Sr. ordered to be used intending to destroy all
forms
> > of life INCLUDING NON-COMBATANTS.

    Clinton should know thet DU ammunition is used on the M-1-A-1 Abrams
tank as a "tank killer" ammunition and DU is used as shields against
incomming anti-tank rounds in the sides of the tanks.  He should also know
that the tank battles in Desert Storm that took place happened in Kuwait and
not Iraq mainly. And that the few tank engagements in Iraq that took place
only took *one* DU shell per tank to blow them up not the thousands Clinton
Claims. The claims of 30 million tons is a preposterous fabrication.

Here are rediculous claims from Clinton's reference:
>http://www.answering-christianity.com/iraqi_torture.htm

"The following pictures reveal the truth about the barbaric attacks that
were done by the United States of America's Armed forces against the Iraqi
civilians in Southern Iraq.  The United States used what is called "Uranium
Bombs" against the unarmed Iraqi Civilians.  The Deplete Uranium Bombs are
exactly small Atomic Bombs!!."

    First, there are no DU bombs. DU ammunition has two uses in the U.S.
Arsenal. The first is ammunition for the M-1-A-1 Abrams tank as an anti-tank
shell. The second is sheets of DU used on the side of the tank to shield it
from attack. The U.S. has not used DU "bombs" from aircraft. The claims are
false. The photos on that site are not from anything the U. S. did, remember
that Iraq has used both chemical and biological weapons on its own
population.

 Further that site claims:

"CNN tells us that Iraq lost more than 1.5 million civilians from the UN
Sanctions that are imposed by the United States."

    Yes, CNN has aired such a claim (from others) the simple fact is that
the sanctions have never prevented Iraq from purchasing needed food nor
medication. Again the truth is that rather than spend the money on food and
medicine, Saddam Hussein has spent that money on re-arming himself with more
than 2,000 shiney new Russian tanks and MiG aircraft. Of those starving
children, how many could have been fed for a year with the money spent on
just one tank or one MiG fighter? If Hussein had bought food, everyone in
Iraq could have had a 32 ounce sirloin steak every lunch and supper for the
past 10 years with all the fixings. And they'd be the most medicated people
on the planet.  Put the lame where it belongs, with the madman in charge of
operations in Iraq.