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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, Thermobaric bombs, Clusterbombs, Napalm...

The US uses WMD against civilians.


This site shows the effects of the terrible weapons the U.S. is using in the Middle East - The site is deeply disturbing to the emotions and for some may make physically sick.
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Labels: Clusterbombs, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, made in the U.S.A., Napalm, Thermobaric bombs, White Phosphorous
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Depleted Uranium - What Is It?

Depleted uranium (DU) is what is left after raw uranium has been enriched to the highly radioactive isotope U-235 used for weapons and power generation. For every ton of U-235 produced, there are seven tons of DU. Estimates vary, but it seems that currently the US alone has in excess of five million tons of stockpiles of DU. This has no commercial use beyond its use as a radiation shield in medical devices, and for adding to concrete to form radiation containing bunkers. However, this requires an insignificant quantity of the DU produced each year.

The half-life of DU is 4.5 billion years, so storing it safely and indefinitely is cost prohibitive. To remedy the situation, the US Department of Energy has made it freely available to the Pentagon and US armaments and armour manufacturers, and it has been used in weapons exported to 29 countries. It is simply cheaper to make it into weapons than store it.
~ Alok O'Brien

What is a White Phosphorus Weapon?

Jeff Englehart, a former marine who spent two days in Fallujah during the battle, said he heard the order go out over military communication that WP was to be dropped. In the RAI film, Mr Englehart, now an outspoken critic of the war, says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete ... Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children."

IMPORTANT Veteran's Day talk on DU
According to the declassified Groves memo from the Manhattan Project in 1943, the properties of DU in weapons has been known and strategised with for 60 years. It is clear that the US has known for 60 years about the effects of DU on the battlefield, also the danger to its own soldiers.
~ Alok O'Brien

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (30)
    • ►  November (23)
    • ▼  October (4)
      • White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium...
      • DU in Hawaii
      • Depleted Uranium: The Facts
      • Depleted Uranium Alert! by Doug Rokke, continued
    • ►  September (3)

My other Blogs regarding Military issues

  • Peace -- No War
  • Wars in the Middle East (no longer accessible to me)
  • When They Come Home (no longer accessible to me)
  • Healthcare for Veterans (no longer accessible to me)

Further Research

  • Your future with DU
  • DU - Anatomy of an Atrocity
  • Balkans and Black Sea Region
  • Risks from DU exposure
  • Campaign Against DU
  • Videos on War in the Middle East
  • Intro to DU
  • Joyce Riley, RN, former Capt. in the U.S. AirForce
  • Beyond Treason
  • Depleted Uranium & Gulf War Syndrome

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