Depleted Uranium
by Fandango Again on 26 April 2005 @ 02:41 PM
Briefly, all you earth loving humans out there, read on and digest. Posted in Information Clearing House today is an article on Bush and his colleagues sending the children of the states to die in foreign lands. The chilling part at the end though, is the use of Depleted Uranium in ammunition. This has been researched well, it is an uncontainable killing force and has an unlimited life. There is no way of stopping it, and it is condemning the world and all its species to death. I leave you all to go to Information Clearing and find this. author Sheila Samples, title 'they were once young and fit'.
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At least some 29 countries have DU weapons. Some interesting international actions are at www.BanDepletedUraniumWeapons.org.
Weapons such as DU, land mines, Agent Orange which affect civilians and the environment long after the conflict are banned under the Geneva Convention.(www.armedconflictlaw.org)
The US military is required, under its own regulatins (www.traprockpeace.org/r700_48.pdf www.traprockpeace.org/tb_9-1300-278_1996.pdf www.traprockpeace.org/p700_48.pdf) to treat those affected clean up the DU they have spread around Iraq, to the best of their ability. No, it can't be totally "cleaned up", but much could be done. In the Albany, NY, area, a toxic site where DU was used is being cleaned up, contaminated soil has been removed and taken to radioactive waste burial sites.
For some citizen actions in the US invoke a company's liability legally in committing war crimes by producing weapons that they know cause this harm, see this link: www.nukewatch.com/du/20041221losingstreak.html
A US campaign to require the military to label with a warning Radioactive placard the DU weapons shipped on highways around the country is at www.gzcenter.org. Regular people have called attention to this problem, and the US Dept. of Transportation has been studying this issue very closely for over a year, and calling on the military to prove its claims that it is safe.
The US secretary of the Veterans Administration resigned in the past month or so, in response, many say, to a pivotal article on DU by Leuren Moret.
Might we all shine such a spotlight on the issue that such environmental devastation becomes unthinkable? I know Greenpeace activists are famous for their perseverance and creative actions.
Sheree DU Weapons Network of the Hudson Mohawk Region
I knew that Bush was detached from reality but this is just insane, with the mass poverty that exists in the U.S you think that the militry budget would be spent on food, health care and housing for the poor.
Isn't he a pro-life nutcase as well.
Do you know the amount of nuclear weapons the U.S goverment has? , I imagine it's enough to destroy the earth many times over.
Four more years of him too, I can't belive he is still in power, with all the information available on sacredcow.com and infowars.com.
We're having an election in the U.K on May 5th and with all the blind voters, voting on what they think directly effects them and nothing else, Tony Blair will be back in office, and the world will continue to suffer for it.
update. I have just received a reply from Debbie Enever at info@libdems.org.uk, due to pressure of pre election work, the questions raised by the use of depleted uranium will be put aside until after the election. The British electorate will be going to the polls with the facts hidden from them, and worst still Tony Blair may yet get re-elected and not held responsible for this crime against humanity and the life of this planet. I have replied asking that this should be brought before the public NOW, anyone who reads this, please send emails to info@libdems.org.uk (for the attention of Debbie Enever, or Dave McCullough, both have prior knowledge) to put some pressure on them to stop hiding the facts from the public. This is a fight that must be won. I am living in Spain so my battle has to be conducted by email, anyone in UK get hold of your local Libdem and let's stop this cover up.
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