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Depleted uranium shells propaganda target by Iraqis
Post Gazette ^
| Mar 26, 2003
| Michael Woods,
Posted on 03/26/2003 6:53:18 PM PST by Diddley
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON --Iraq has tried to manipulate world opinion in recent months in an effort to prevent the United States from using its most effective armor-penetrating shells, the kind that decimated the Iraqi tank fleet in the Persian Gulf War, U.S. military officials say.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: depleteduranium; target
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The spector of DU radiation problems raised by Iraq.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:53:18 PM PST
by
Diddley
To: vannrox; snopercod; joanie-f; mommadooo3
Bump.
To: Diddley
There has to be a joke about DUmbies in here somewhere.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:56:26 PM PST
by
Sinner6
(Communism is a cancer)
To: Diddley
The key word in depleted uranium is depleted.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:57:10 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Diddley
There's a whole lot more serious health implications for Iraqi citizens that either surrender to the wrong uniform or get used as shields.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:57:12 PM PST
by
alancarp
(anti-Hollywood idiots petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/hollywoodceleb/)
To: Diddley
It's interesting that the reporter at the CentCom briefing who asked about DU wasn't from the Arab press.
It was pathetic show by the worlds "journalists".
To: Diddley
I would state categorically and unequivocally, that being inside a tank that had one of these things shot through it, it probably is very unhealthy not to go out on a limb or anything...
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:00:53 PM PST
by
Lx
(So it's now, Duct tape and cover?)
To: alancarp
To: Diddley
Seems the best thing to do is get rid of these things...why not get rid of all we have in stock somewhere in Iraq?
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:12:57 PM PST
by
Ecliptic
To: Diddley
Knew this was coming. Expected it from our anti-war crowd, but i guess they haven't gotten their marching orders yet.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:23:09 PM PST
by
wildbill
To: Cultural Jihad
![](http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/images/figf1.gif)
Iraqi T-72 tank hit with DU sabot
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:28:34 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: wildbill
Re:
Expected it from our anti-war crowd I've already argued it. Just keep making them say the word "Depleted" over and over and over untill they get the fact that Depleted Uranium shells are just that, Depleted.
Do they cut through old russian tank armor like butter? Hell Yes. Will we stop useing them because that pisses off our military enemy? HELL NO !
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:31:45 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
To: Diddley
"...oh well..."
I suppose they would rather us use Neutron Warheads?
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:36:05 PM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: Diddley
The health problems in Basra and other areas of S. Iraq are caused by low-level exposure to Saddam's mustard gas, not DU.
They are similar to the birth defects and other problems reported in the northern Kurdish areas, where DU rounds were never used in Gulf War I. However, Saddam has used mustard gas extensively in both the north and south of the country.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:36:06 PM PST
by
Campion
To: Ecliptic
Seems the best thing to do is get rid of these things...why not get rid of all we have in stock somewhere in Iraq? Too expensive to move the whole Pacific inventory to that theatre. But we may have other opportunities soon.
To: Diddley
""But Saddam Hussein refused. "Unless that study is done, it is going to be very difficult to try to understand what is behind the large number of people being ill,""
Maybe they inhaled something more volatile and toxic when Saddam put down the rebellion after the first Iraq war.VX? Sarin? Mustard?
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:46:13 PM PST
by
Calamari
To: Lx
. . . not to go out on a limb or anything.
ROFL
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:46:18 PM PST
by
Diddley
To: Lx
Sure... Aerosolized heavy metal of any variety is wicked toxic. But with DU, its the heavy metal, and not the radiation that is the bigger health danger.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:47:05 PM PST
by
XEHRpa
To: Calamari
VX? Sarin? Mustard?
Yeah. I think radiation is their last worry.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:47:39 PM PST
by
Diddley
To: XEHRpa
But with DU, its the heavy metal, and not the radiation that is the bigger health danger.
Good point.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:48:40 PM PST
by
Diddley
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