[Stultis]

" I trampled thrugh a mass of depleted uranium"
WTF????
This guy wouldnt know what DU looked like if he saw it.

And you know this how? Psychic powers? A little birdie? Besides, even if Raff is incapable of identifying depleted uranium, why do you (apparently gratuitously) discount the possibility that a bona fide expert might have said something like, "these shells we're walking among are made of depleted uranium". There's certainly plenty of the stuff around in Iraq. I'm mystified why you assume the author is lying.

[Waverunner]

DU is mainly an anti armor round.
HE is anti personnel
City fighting against insurgents doesn't involve AT fire
even the apaches are firing 30mm HE rounds in COIN ops
Tanks fire Heat rounds to take out buildings
and with our current fire control systems nobody Willy nilly sprays an area with anti tank rounds
one shot - one kill for the M1's
even the 25mm bradley gunners fire short controlled bursts of 3-5 rounds
The statement doesn't make sense based on a lot of reasons having to do with current tactical doctrines. And it really is MSM crap to use DU contamination as a way to disparage the remarkable minimal loss of life in the conquest of Iraq, compared to any other military engagement of similiar size in the past. All the DU in current military inventory wouldn't make a 10 ft cube.