So I just got a comment from someone who claims the concerns about depleted uranium are a big hoax...that it's not deadly and that I just don't know any better than to listen to a bunch of quacks...
Well, one person who would beg to differ on that front would be Captain Terry Riordan of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Well, he would beg to differ if he weren't dead from the effects of depleted uranium poisoning.
Captain Riordan served in the Gulf War and came home to Canada in 1991. Unfortunately, he was ill from that point on from the effects of the radioactivity he had been exposed to. Really fun stuff like headaches, body pain, oozing rashes, exhaustion, violent mood swings and...oh yeah...burning semen that would cause blistering.
His condition progressed to the point where he had no fine motor co-ordination. By 1998 - 1999, he lost most cognitive function entirely and was lucid only a few hours per week.
Shortly before Captain Riordan died, he was tested for DU (depleted uranium) by Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and former professor of Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University. It was found that he had 100 times the yearly maximum "safe" level of DU in his body. High concentrations were found in his bones and lungs.
He died three days after finding out the results of his tests.
There are hundreds of thousands of sick soldiers from the first Gulf War. Many have died. Many have had children with severe birth defects and chromosome damage. And still there is denial that "Gulf War Syndrome" even exists.
Call me gullible if you will, but the stories of the people affected don't lie.
Here is a link to Part One of an excellent short documentary about the effects of depleted uranium called The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children. The other parts are also available on YouTube.
Again, showing the real people affected, not just spouting the official line.
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Depleted uranium munitions are munitions that have depleted uranium at their core so that they are hard/dense enough to penetrate tanks. Despite the name, the uranium is still radioactive. When the munitions hit their target, they turn to dust. This dust is then breathed in or ingested by people coming into contact with it. It is spread around in the air and water currents and can travel long distances.
Contamination from depleted uranium has caused devastating ill health (including cancer) in many NATO soldiers and in the people of Iraq, as well as in other countries that have been on the receiving end of it. This has also caused horrific birth defects in the offspring of Iraquis and NATO soldiers, as well as chronic ill health and shortened life spans. Entire genetic lines have been destroyed by the use of depleted uranium munitions and bombs. The women of Fallujah were told by doctors to simply stop having babies because the birth defects were so common.
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0SFM7Oho4k
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEY-q7mJOy4
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frh_tbsNFLM
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Vt2fSRkOo
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx7ECfyqMQ
Part 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsgmPQktsA
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