The WHO site didn’t make any of the claims about DU that people here are making.

It is just crap. Plain. With no modifiers.

LOL

“The heart of Bush v. Gore’s analysis was its holding that the recount was unacceptable because the standards for vote counting varied from county to county. “Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms,” the court declared, “the state may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.” If this equal protection principle is taken seriously, if it was not just a pretext to put a preferred candidate in the White House, it should mean that states cannot provide some voters better voting machines, shorter lines, or more lenient standards for when their provisional ballots get counted — precisely the system that exists across the country right now.

“The first major judicial test of Bush v. Gore’s legacy came in California in 2003. The N.A.A.C.P., among others, argued that it violated equal protection to make nearly half the state’s voters use old punch-card machines, which, because of problems like dimpled chads, had a significantly higher error rate than more modern machines. A liberal three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed. But that decision was quickly reconsidered en banc —that is, reheard by a larger group of judges on the same court — and reversed. The new panel dispensed with Bush v. Gore in three unilluminating sentences of analysis, clearly finding the whole subject distasteful.

“The dispute in the Sixth Circuit is even sharper. Ohio voters are also challenging a disparity in voting machines, arguing that it violates what the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Daniel Tokaji, an Ohio State University law professor, calls Bush v. Gore’s “broad principle of equal dignity for each voter.” Two of the three judges who heard the case ruled that Ohio’s election system was unconstitutional. But the dissenting judge protested that “we should heed the Supreme Court’s own warning and limit the reach of Bush v. Gore to the peculiar and extraordinary facts of that case.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/opinion/15tues4.html?ex=1313294400&en=687375003b802612&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Perhaps when I am not “up to my ears” in my paying work I will take the time. I tend to have more up-to-date information on things I have been actively involved in – DU is not one of those.

Ironically, DU is a cornerstone to my nuclear power scenario so I am not totally against its use for anything – just its indiscriminate misuse.

My post was meant for Captain. I apologize for any confusion.

Ben,

You are a scientist…right?

You guys are the ones making the claim that DU munitions do all this bad stuff…with no evidence.

Showing me some pictures which could be related to anything is not evidence. Quoting a vetern who “claims” it was DU munitions is not evidence.

Is that the kind of stuff that flys in the scientific community Ben? I don’t have to be a professional scientist, my 8th grade biology class taught me more about the scientific process than I have seen here from you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×1912066

(Do I get a gold star for using the word of the day in a sentance?)

heheheh

Now ya got him running for the dictionary.

Or maybe just the “bible according to the ayatollahs”?

Contribute. What a foreign concept.

How in the wide wide world of sports could you read my posts and possibly think I don’t know the difference?

I have personnaly met with the Chief Scientist from China Lake and discussed these things.Also the Picatinny Arsenal folks.

I may play dumb and post goofy stuff sometimes for fun, but do I seem THAT stupid?

Nathan – the “anti” sites I linked (along with more neutral ones) are no more biased than your military sites.

Of course, I have to understant that according to Nathan Tony’s veteran friend looks so unhealthy because of the efforts of a liberal make-up artist.

Depleted uranium has 40 percent of the radioactivity of enriched uranium.

You do understand the difference don’t you?

That link you refer to has a .mil URL. Of course, it says you can eat DU for breakfast.

Here’s part of a chapter from a Professor of High Energy Physics at CUNY.

“It has been known for over three hundred years that U-238 harms people’s health. For example, Bohemian miners in what is now the Czech Republic would often come across pitchblende ore in their work. Pitchblende ore contains uranium-238. Because of its unusual weight, it would often be used as doorstops in Europe. It was also used to create beautiful colors in ceramic glazes. However, the Bohemian miners would often come down with a mysterious “mountain disease.”

We now know that this mountain disease is really lung cancer, caused by the radioactive emissions of radon gas, a standard byproduct of radioactive decay. Even today the emission of radioactive radon gas and the dispersal of uranium particulates poses a health risk. In the American Southwest, there are hundreds of millions of tons of waste uranium “tailings” left over from the mining and milling of uranium ore. Unscrupulous contractors would sell the uranium tailings to Native Americans, who would then use them to build their adobe homes. It was also sold to developers, who would use the waste uranium for landfill for suburban housing tracts.

It is one of the great unpublicized scandals in this country that Native Americans would breathe the radon gas and uranium particulates, both as miners in unventilated mines, as well as residents in their own radioactive homes. Illness and death have ravaged those in the Native American community who came in contact with uranium waste. But most of the publicity went to several middle-class housing tracts (like Grand Junction, Colorado), which were actually built on top of waste uranium. Much to the embarrassment of the old Atomic Energy Commission, measurements of the radioactive waste uranium showed high levels of radiation and radon gas, so the basements of many of these homes had to be dug up at the taxpayers expense.

http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/kaku.htm

Don’t want to talk about DU munitions anymore?

Is that what you call a “scientific” source?

It is a tragic innicent, yes. The fault of DU munitions? Who knows, I doubt it seriously.

A bunch of hype and political rants from someone, no proof or scientific study.

Actually, it is this comment which proves beyond a reasonable doubt what a pharse your link is:

“The Army thoroughly confirmed that its a radioactive bomb and the shrapnel is there after its use and it’s a problem and everything else so it’s all there.”

LOL

You call that science?

It was nothing but a rant talking about Israel using DU munitions.

We use DU munitions. They are not illegal, like your link kept saying.

What a joke. You call yourself a scientist posting crap like that?