Use of Depleted Uranium in US arms

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Depleted Uranium is uranium ore left when the useful stuff (used for making nuclear bombs and nuclear energy) has been extracted from it. Instead of dumping depleted uranium, the US army thought they can dump it in other countries. So now they use weapons tipped with depleted uranium. The UN has banned this illegal substance yet the USA continues to use it endlessly in Iraq.

This radiological stuff is in the air, dust, food and water of wherever those weapons have been used. Children in Iraq are born with massive, massive freakish deformities. According to doctors when kids are born, the mother doesnt ask if its a boy or a girl, the mother asks if the kid is normal.

In the Gulf War 350 Tonnes of depleted uranium was dumped into iraq. Cancer and Leukimia has gone up 700% in children in iraq, over 600,000 of which have died since the start of the Gulf was in the early 90s. The pentagon has repeatedly denied DU being a radiological risk, partly because there has been no official research done into this matter.

For those of you who think this invasion is justified and you have no concern for these half a million dead innocent children, know that since the Gulf war, over a 100,000 US soldiers have been listed as disabled due to the radiological effects of depleted uranium.

What way to bring democracy.

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i am sure its all for the benefit of iraqi people. and still they are not thankful to invaders. foolish people

insaan bana shaitaan
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fayronz (Pharaoh)

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First of all, Pakistan is reliant on DU weapons. As one of 18 countries that makes DU weapons, 125mm DU shells are the standard anti-tank ammunition deployed to Pakistani tank crews. Pakistan's use of DU shells makes our anti-tank weapons more deadly than India's tungsten-tipped shells.

DU use in weapons is NOT an effort to dump waste material. Rather, DU is so very hard and dense that there's no better armour penetrating material known to man. It's a very useful by-product of the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Putting DU on bullets, shells, and bombs makes them much more effective against armoured or otherwise protected targets.

Not only that, but Pakistan is seeking to export DU weaponry to our allies. At every Pakistani arms fair, our DU weaponry is proudly advertised for export orders.

Finally, DU is most definately legal. There is no specific ban by the UN on DU. International treaties prohibit the use of weapons whose primary use or application is poisoning. However, the primary use of DU is to penetrate armour solely through application of kinetic energy, and not to poison. The biotoxic effects of DU are entirely an unintended side effect of usage.

DU therefore falls outside the range of weapons currently banned. Any effort to make DU illegal will be foiled by USA, the UK, France, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, Thailand, Iraq , Taiwan and several other countries, all of whom are users of DU weaponry.

In fact, nearly half the countries that use DU weapons are Muslim countries.

Do you really want to blunt their teeth by forcing them to use inferior quality, DU-free weaponry?

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Whether intended or unintended, it shud be banned for its biotoxic effects, coz these affect non-combatants, women and children.

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And on top of that guess, what happens to the other nuclear waste that Pakistan produces from its uranium mining and nuclear reactors?

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exactly... even if it is used by muslim nations its wrong and especially when its used under the slogan of providing a better life for average iraqi than it becomes even more abhorrent.

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Every year some brainwashed fool posts this stuff. When you say the word Uranium the ignorant get freaked out. Please do a search of some of the prior threads for discussions on this topic here on gupshup, and learn to separate quasi-scientific propaganda from the truth.