Posted on 08/13/2006 6:36:02 AM PDT by yankeedame
Im no expert either, but isuspect that metal toxicity is the only real issue with DU
I bet he's fun at a party.
Read no further. They do not know what they are writing about.
Hint, the shells are not coated with DU, they have DU cores, often covered by an aerodynamic shell of something very light, like aluminum.
It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills - morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.Morphine AND Methadone??? An Antidepressant AND Valium??? Then a Muscle Relaxant And Viagra?
Uh... something is wrong with that picture. There's certain drugs you DON'T take together (I know). Me thinks this 'story' is BS.
If true, the only part that makes sense is the Valium. (and if he didn't take the 'Muscle Relaxant' I doubt he'd need the Viagra)
No,no,no...sorry if I gave that impression.
When I read the line about them getting lawyers to sue the Army the word that jumped out at me was lawyers. Who, as we all know, are masters at setting the stage before they go in for the $$$ kill. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this article was a plant (one of many) and the writer a stooge (ditto) for the lawyers on this.
morphine AND methadone? Gee whiz, I didn't think they prescribed methadone to anyone unless they were opiate addicts in the first place. Since these 2 also cause constipation, I suppose the stool-softener is a must.
It sounds like much of his illness is probably caused by the drugs he is taking.
I share your disdain and distrust of lawyers.
However, I recall the decades battle waged by those Vietnam veterans that were poisoned by Agent Orange.
A method they used, and is used by a lot of people trying to get information out of a stonewalling government or other entity, is to file suit.
Filing suit forces the other party into disclosure.
That may be what these guys are doing.
A lot of people immediately pooh-pooh the prospect of someone getting sick from DU. But, we're all different. Some of us get sick from peanuts. Some from seafood. Etc.
Out of a military force of hundreds of thousands that have served time in the Gulf, there's bound to be some that get sick from things other don't.
I don't know enough about DU one way or another to dismiss it out of hand.
"It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills - morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves."
So he's taking:
Morphine
Methadone
Valium
musle relaxers
AND an antidepressant
And he wonders why he suffers from "sexual disfunction"?
That's a drug cocktail that would put The King in a grave.
"Gee whiz, I didn't think they prescribed methadone to anyone unless they were opiate addicts in the first place."
Methadone is commonly used for pain. I was on it for about 2 years for pain caused by herniated discs.
There is no "high" to it.
I've been saying that for years......
That could depend on how many milligrams a person is on. It may not be a high like heroin/dilaudid/morphine, etc., but it is a high.
But I sure didn't know the prescribed it for pain in the US. Seems like over-kill to give the guy methadone AND morphine.
It was bad
Saddam polluted half the planet with that stunt.
The troops were at gound zero
Which Iraqi government would that be? The one we destroyed or the one we put in place?
The Iraqi goverment that pays the bills, if our men were sickened by the goverment of the Iraqi people then that goverment should compensate those affected. They have oil, they are not the poor kid on the block we helped in their need and they shouldn't get a free ride.
I would guess these problems are the result of exposure to low levels of nerve agents that were released either intentionally by the Iraqi forces or unintentionally by the bombing of the Iraqi munitions storage facilities as a part of the war, rather than dust from the Deplete Uranium shells.
I think it's pretty obvious that there were chemical weapons in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion, and some of the stuff got released.
I can not imagine why a tanker would need such a device.
To explain why his ***** are glowing?
Don't know, the Army said it.
is comparing radioactivity of DU to that of "natural uranium metal"...
Ah, missed the metal part. However, I knew about the heavy metal poisoning. My one successful paper that I wrote in High School Chemistry was on heavy metal poisoning. I still have it because it was the only one that passed. (My trophy case is real small)
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