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Radiation in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs This story is about American weapons built with uranium components for the business end of things.
Just about all American bullets, 120 mm tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs,500 - and 2,000-pound bombs, cruise missiles and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us against them has uranium in it. Lots of uranium.
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No sir-ee, putting Four Million Pounds of radioactive uranium dust (RUD) on the ground in Iraq was a definitely "on-purpose" kind of thing. It was not "just an accident." We, the citizens of the United States, through our kids in the Army, did this on purpose.
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The uranium cannot be removed, there is no treatment, there is no cure. The uranium will long outlast the veterans' and the Iraqis' bodies though; for, you see, it lasts virtually forever.
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Not to worry,
the President has plenty of raw material for radioactive uranium munitions left. There are more than 77,000tons stored at the 103 nuclear waste plants and the several nuclear weapons labs in the U.S. Each one makes another
250 pounds of radioactive material a day for radioactive bullets, bombs and missiles. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that is enough for 40.5 more gloriously successful campaigns like the 2003 nuclear war in Iraq.
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I found this a little scary, and "bullets"?
- so I did some checking
- yup even bullets.
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"Depleted Uranium is a radioactive metal which the
United States has begun using to coat bullets to help them penetrate tanks and other targets more easily. The radioactivity is dispersed, contaminating land and water and causing birth defects. Bullets coated in depleted Uranium were used in the Gulf War, and it is believed that a sickness known as Gulf War syndrome in American soldiers of the war was caused by exposure to the radioactive metal. Since the Gulf War, depleted Uranium has been used in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Other Related Facts During the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991 the United States military incurred: 467 individuals wounded in action, 148 killed in battle, and 145 killed in other than battle (i.e. accidents). Therefore, the total number of US Gulf War casualties was 760 at the time of redeployment.
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. . . as of May 2002:
696,778 individuals had served during the Gulf War with
572,833 individuals now eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits
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Since the cessation of Gulf War hostilities in 1991,
an additinoal 8013 veterans have died from service connected injuries and exposures incurred during operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
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That's over
10 times the number lost in combat.
And that's "small potatoes" compared to the number of Iraqis that will die slow miserable deaths, not to mention disfigured newborns.
So
the Military is "nuking" Iraq, one bullet at a time.How many marines, soldiers even realize this?
We know the answer.
Very, very few.