Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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I'm not sure I understand... making a giant profit using DU at the expensive of our troops and innocent civilians is "not doing anything wrong"?

One answer might lie in a powerful corporate lobby: 99% of nuclear industry uranium waste is DU. In other words, by providing DU for weaponry, the nuclear industry makes a tidy profit by avoiding the expensive hassle of disposing nuclear waste as well. Pretty sweet deal.

Bush has been a friend to the nuclear industry from the start, by opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and thumbing his nose at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. With 2002's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), however, the Bush administration raised the nuclear ante to critical heights. Among other proposals, NPR says the US could use nuclear weapons in the vaguely worded "event of surprising military developments," and lists such cases as a China-Taiwan conflict, an attack by Iraq on one of its neighbors, or an Arab-Israeli war.