Just exactly why doesn't this count as WMD??? Because it's not a WMD. As other posters have already pointed out, the uranium in question is depleted. It may emit enough radiation to register on a sensitive Geiger counter, but that's about all. The radioactivity wouldn't kill anyone, and it certainly would cause any "mass destruction".
Too many ignorant people get all hysterical over anything which is the slightest bit radioactive, irrespective of the true danger or lack thereof. Let's not encourage such hysteria by deliberately mislabeling things.
Why isn't this leading story on all the news channels?
Because it's not overly newsworthy.
Why don't we see the Dems apologizing to Bush???
In this case they have nothing to apologize for.
Yes, these were just rhetorical questions.
Not really, since the implication in each case is that your answers are wrong.
The article did NOT say Depleted Uranium. Yes, I suppose it's a possibility, but by no means can we just dismiss them as DU.
They may well be radioactive enough to qualify as "dirty bomb" missiles. Russia did have other such missiles.
Here is an article from the Washington Post (other sources are more detailed, but I know some would dismiss those sources).
Dirty Bomb Warheads Disappear
Stocks of Soviet-Era Arms For Sale on Black Market
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41921-2003Dec6?language=printer " Military records show that at least 38 Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material, effectively creating the world's first surface-to-surface dirty bomb.
The radioactive warheads are not known to have been used. But now, according to experts and officials, they have disappeared.
The documents, which were provided to The Washington Post, are a series of official letters written in 1994 by a Transdniester civil defense commander, Col. V. Kireev, who apparently became concerned about radiation given off by the rockets.
One document described an inventory of 38 "isotopic radioactive warheads of missiles of the Alazan type," including 24 that were attached to rocket. In the two other documents, the commander requested technical help in dealing with radiation exposure related to storage of the warheads. He complained that uniforms of soldiers working with the warheads were so contaminated that they had to be "destroyed by burning and burying."
"I propose to categorically ban all work with the missile . . . and to label it as a radioactive danger," Kireev wrote on Oct. 24, 1994.