The name depleted uranium seems innocuous,however uranium even though it has low emitions of radioactivity,has special qualities.It bonds well to our genes,absorbs background radiation well and thus is a cell destroyer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaN5v0wQMI4

Britian and the USA have been using depleted uranium as an anti-tank weapon and extensively in small rifle weapons.Fallujah is said to have more birth defects than Hiroshima.In the last 10 years studies show that male fertility rates in Israel have fallen by 40%.

There needs to be extensive studies done since this radio-active dust does travel.The war mongering neo-cons seem to have no regard for humanity including themselves.

Well done Arjay... thanx for highlighting the good will, compassion, and altruism of the patriotic and noble insurgents who did a lot of the killing of innocents in fallujah just to make the Allies look bad.

After all..now the people of Iraq have been denied the amazing opportunity to watch their children's eyes gouged out before them.. daughters raped by Sadaams sons, and various other unsavory actions characteristic of the regime which the fight in Fallujah was about.

You stun me.. totally stun me... in that you can rant and rave about the eeeeeevils of the "Neo Cons" but you say NOTHING ..nada...zip about the real evils of Islamofascism and socialists in Islamic garb which perpetrated the original atrocities that Fallujah was one small part of getting RID of.

You need help Arjay.. serious help mate.

This isn’t just killing them; this is the sickening use of banned weapons knowing that babies and children will die slowly and in pain for a long time to come.

Why are people still living there?

AIR,you have lost the plot.In one instance you marvel at my revelations that the Simpsons were able to predict 911 and now rail against a reality that is harming Jews and Iraqis alike.You AIR are totally inconsistant.

We don't have the stats on other Middle Eastern fertility rates or birth deformities.Israel has the money and resources.This is why there needs to be an extensive scientfic enquiry.If the war spreads to Iran and the US uses even more depleted uranium,then all people on this planet will be affected.Uranium adheres well to your DNA AIR and causes sickness and birth deformities.The war mongering neo-cons will use even more if we are silent.

AIR,will your grandchildren be more intelligent with two heads?

Just look at what a few nuclear tests in the australian desert did ? fifty, sixty years on & it's still causing wharped brains many miles away in Sydney & Melbourne as well as many smaller places.
I think it's just so deplorable that it is beyond words how some idiots can tolerate this outcome & even justify it in the name of faith. Faith, my lillywhite butt, this is not faith ? This is utter stupidity.

Arjay...I hate to burst your conspiracy bubble there but:

A recent United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report giving field measurements taken around selected impact sites in Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) indicates that contamination by DU in the environment was localized to a few tens of metres around impact sites. Contamination by DU dusts of local vegetation and water supplies was found to be extremely low. Thus, the probability of significant exposure to local populations was considered to be very low.

Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.

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Nothing like a bit of science to straighten things up eh :)