Foreign Correspondence

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This is somewhat reminiscent of Agent Orange. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, commander of U.S. Navy in Vietnam and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, charged that the government's exoneration of Agent Orange was “politically motivated to cover up the true effects of dioxin, and manipulate public perception.”

Just like Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange was touted as being safe for humans and a lot of people believed the pr.

Depleted Uranium is classified by the UN as a WMD. If WMD’s are just fine why are we upset that Saddam supposedly had them?

According to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:hqjpQg4T_QMJ:www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm+Deplete...

A widely reprinted May 6 Associated Press wire story quoted Lt. Col. Michael Sigmon and Command Sgt. Major Kenneth O. Preston of the US Army's V Corps saying that armor-piercing depleted uranium shells used in the 1991 Gulf war and this year in Iraq pose no health threat, and that children playing with expended DU tank shells would have to eat and then "practically suffocate on DU residue" before any health problems occurred.

But a growing number of scientists and experts are repudiating such reassurances as false. UN and other studies identify DU as a toxic hazard which can attack the kidneys and cause lung cancer if inhaled or ingested, and which risks contaminating the water supply if left unremediated.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:X10PxDZb_GUJ:www.shutdown-sizewell.org.uk/depleted%2520uran.htm+D...

Let’s not forget we dropped napalm, MK 77, on Iraq and I imagine somewhere there is a text swearing that the napalm only caused a few hemorrhoids.
#msg-1304507

Why does the world’s best military with sufficient conventional weapons use napalm and a WMD, that which they have condemned, against a fifth rate Iraqi army? Just for fun, practice, science fair, boredom?

And why is this double standard acceptable to the American people?

That is the real question.



http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:lQxlCesGeRUJ:www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/november2003/ir....