How is it possible any government can ignore, rationalize, and justify this...
... dropping 'WMM's"** on innocent people... uranium dust which emits alpha radiation and has a half life of over four billion years!
Especially one claiming moral high ground, and extolling democratic superiority...
... once again... it's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY... "...price of DU increased 10-fold, creating a huge multi-billion dollar industry."
The US is the largest single user of depleted uranium (DU) weaponry... and it is also the largest seller and exporter of DU weapon technology in the world.And it begins once again... in the name of 'protecting civilians' in Libya.
How are civilians being 'protected' by dusting them with DU? How can we continue to accept this being done to any population, by the government's declaration it is someway justifiable..
...and exculpating those in charge, who so readily acquiesce to these extreme injustices, possibly by believing them somehow reformable?
... we must honestly ask ourselves...
...how would we feel about America, if this were our country...
* The DU name is conveniently misleading. According to the military, DU is a “mild health risk” outside of the human body... this is what soldiers and pilots are told. What is generally ignored, however, is what happens when the dust enters the body. By drinking, eating or breathing it in, DU radiation severely damages bone marrow and cellular chromosomes by internally emitting sub-atomic “bullets” known as alpha particles. This causes lung, lymph and brain cancers as well as mutagenic effects such as unusually high rates of leukemia and fetal radiation damage that cause grotesque birth defects. Uranium contamination also permanently impairs kidney, heart and liver function.
