For bullets and bombs, it is illegal to trade in such made of DU, WP.
That’s why it will be covered up because the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was in the middle of this illegal arms trade selling these awful projectiles to ISIS and others similar.
The fields of Kosovo are riddled with DU bullets and bomb shrapnel from Clinton’s insane foray into that conflict. Even accepting a US role in that conflict, there was no reason to use DU in that conflict. The region will be radioactive and dirty for generations unless billions are allocated to clean it up. Not going to happen as it would be an admission of guilt.
As you go about defending the usage of DU and WP, you are missing the main point which is that the Clinton’s circle comprise some very, very bad people that that have no hesitation to do anything of horror. The Clintons themselves have disgraced the White House and severely tarnished the reputation of the United States as a defender of freedom but their surrogates have shown governments around the globe that the United States is a deceitful and dangerous bad actor. For despotic rulers, we don’t care but the reputation of the Clintons went everywhere stopping at no bounds.
When you will be made aware of the Clinton arming of ISIS and the selling of Sarin gas to ISIS through intermediaries among other war crime trade, take a moment to revisit this thread and reflect on what the larger picture was.
The war crime implications to the Clinton camp will be covered up because they must be, although it is possible that today’s President could cut a deal to make whole those regions and societies that the Clinton mafia have egregiously harmed, without admitting past culpability.
Arms trade in the CGI was its main purpose. As such, the nasty characters that ran it had no conscience, no standard of morality, decency other than that the Clintons themselves must be kept at arm’s length while their handlers were equipped with scripts of plausible deniability so that the Clintons would always be insulated and impenetrable.
That’s all I am going to say on the subject for now.
I left the Army in 1979. At that time, depleted uranium was making its way into the armaments service-wide, and in the other services, too. It has very unique chemical characteristics as it has a combustion-like reaction even though it is technically inert. White Phosphorous has been used for eons as an illumination round, but is prohibited for use as an anti personnel weapon.
Not only are these substances in regular use, there is no way to go to war with a large number of fighting machines and weapons systems without using these substances. As our weapons are designed, there are no current substitutes available.
War is toxic and lethal. Lead bullets are poisonous, and most weapons of any type will generally leave a toxic residue. You may wish that they weren’t used in Kosovo, but it would have been impossible to use a wide variety of high-powered weaponry without using them. I’m not in favor of sending us into combat with both hands tied behind our backs.
Since they are in regular use by US forces, I don’t think we can make the argument that other forces should not have these materials, regardless of what “International Law” says. I think it is important to note that many nasty weapons are going to shady jihadis and the like, That some of the munitions use depleted uranium or white phosphorous is irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is arms trafficking to unsavory characters.