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2011-12-07 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Writer is, to put it kindly, a drooling wacko.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-12-07 06:11|| 2011-12-07 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Middle East Consultant, eh? I wonder if he's any relation to the actor who played Cinna the Poet in the 1970 movie Julius Caesar?

Or is he the same actor-looking-for-relevance?

The IAEA reported in 2003 that, "based on credible scientific evidence, there is no proven link between DU exposure and increases in human cancers or other significant health or environmental impacts"

Studies indicating negligible effects, which is a tiny part of the Wkipedia article.

Posted by Bobby 2011-12-07 06:21|| 2011-12-07 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 What about white phosporus, Pete? You forgot about WP! Burns thru flesh! Water will not extinguish it! Obama must've used WP in Libya!

Posted by Bobby 2011-12-07 06:23|| 2011-12-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing they didn't hear about the "red mercury". and the thiotimoline.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-12-07 07:48|| 2011-12-07 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Depleted Uranium has a half-life of 4.5 billion years

And that fact doesn't tell you something?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-12-07 07:57|| 2011-12-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 350 kg of DU in a cruise missile? I thought DU was used only in 20 to 30 mm rounds and anti-tank shells.

Posted by Spot 2011-12-07 08:16|| 2011-12-07 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Worse than that, they're sending bananas to Libya! Do you know how radioactive bananas are?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-12-07 08:25|| 2011-12-07 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 DU isn't radioactive (to speak of), of course, but it is a 'heavy metal', and like lead (or mercury) can cause health problems by being inhaled or ingested - or punctured by.
I'm not familiar with the alleged use in cruise missiles etc. - why waste valuable payload on that instead of explosives? And there weren't significant tanks neading busting with high inertia projectiles. Hard to tell if there's even a kernel of truth in this pile of bovine excrement.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-12-07 08:32|| 2011-12-07 08:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Years ago, a Marine vet of WW I wrote about the American part of the war. It was a pop history by Laurence Stallings, later a Hollywood screenwriter. Called "Doughboy!" He referred to revisiting some of the scenes of the fighting in France, including an orchard where they had fought for some time. The local farmer's wife reproached them for not picking up their expended cartridges, since the apples all tasted of brass and were unsaleable. That's a lot of brass.
She has a problem, if not a beef, I suppose. But the other end of the issue is...down range from all that brass is a lot of lead. Think about how much lead has been expended in Western Europe since the invention of gunpowder, how much is in the ground in the area of WW I's Western Front, or where the Napoleonic battles were fought.
Anybody worried about the problem of lead poisoning in the local populations, if not the entire continent?
Thought not.
So the concern about DU is entirely partisan. They have worse to worry about, and closer to home. But there's no blaming the Bad Americans or the Bad Capitalists for it, or at least it's too far in the past to make any partisan progress.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2011-12-07 08:44|| 2011-12-07 08:44|| Front Page Top

#10 The lead and the DU were here on Earth before they were made into munitions. Yes we moved them about and concentrated bits into larger bits (and depleted the uranium to boot) but its not as if the Earth isn't a hostile place to live (especially if you are stupid).

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-12-07 10:21|| 2011-12-07 10:21|| Front Page Top

#11 But the baboon thinks it can cause mutations, Glenmore.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-12-07 12:00|| 2011-12-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Anybody worried about the problem of lead poisoning in the local populations, if not the entire continent?

Actually, this explains quite a bit about the author and perhaps the rest of Europe.

Posted by SteveS 2011-12-07 13:15|| 2011-12-07 13:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Article is a hack job based on misdirection and distortion.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-07 15:09|| 2011-12-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

#14 we had some of Peter's perfumed cranial droppings here last week, I believe. Same quality. Glad I didn't step in it

Posted by Frank G 2011-12-07 15:16|| 2011-12-07 15:16|| Front Page Top

#15 I do believe that "HAD" we used "Nuclear Munitions" not a soul would be standing.

Liar, Liar, pants on fire.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-12-07 16:12|| 2011-12-07 16:12|| Front Page Top

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