By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, October 28th, 2006, 12:32 pm
Filed under: Human Rights, Videos: Political, World: Asia, War, Environment, Videos, World Issues, US Politics
This video describes how the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) has been disastrous, not only to targeted combatants, but to our own soldiers who spend hours in close contact with the radioactive ammunition. DU also contaminates the air, food, land, and water, poisoning non-combatants.
The US military has unloaded thousands of tons of Depleted Uranium in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq. Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, every innocent generation born in these regions will be forever poisoned.
The US has dispersed the following amounts of Depleted Uranium:
340 tons in the first Gulf War in 1991
1,000 tons in Afghanistan in 2001
2,400 tons in Iraq in 2003
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