US depleted uranium killing Iraqi civilians & US soldiers

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

re-post from last year...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml


Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium

By LARRY JOHNSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER FOREIGN DESK EDITOR


SOUTHERN DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Iraq -- On the "Highway of Death," 11 miles north of the Kuwait border, a collection of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles are rusting in the desert.

They also are radiating nuclear energy.

In 1991, the United States and its Persian Gulf War allies blasted the vehicles with armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium -- the first time such weapons had been used in warfare -- as the Iraqis retreated from Kuwait. The devastating results gave the highway its name.

Today, nearly 12 years after the use of the super-tough weapons was credited with bringing the war to a swift conclusion, the battlefield remains a radioactive toxic wasteland -- and depleted uranium munitions remain a mystery.

Although the Pentagon has sent mixed signals about the effects of depleted uranium, Iraqi doctors believe that it is responsible for a significant increase in cancer and birth defects in the region. Many researchers outside Iraq, and several U.S. veterans organizations, agree; they also suspect depleted uranium of playing a role in Gulf War Syndrome, the still-unexplained malady that has plagued hundreds of thousands of Gulf War veterans.

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[bif]

1. And isn't the use of these banned by the Geneva Convention?

Do they care?

[Wickerman]

2. By our treatment of detainees at Gitmo

we are no longer a part of the Geneva Convention protections or geovernance. That the US should abstain for involvement in such a sensical doctrine is mind-blowing. That the US public calmly accepts it and is not in the streets protesting is shameful.

[NuckinFutz]

3. The US has ignored

and/or broken so many world wide treaties and agreements already..what's one more? Those laws don't apply to us 'cuz we're the big benevolent police of the world, and we just don't do bad things...right?