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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 depleted uranium rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraqNow please take a look at the effects of depleted uranium on babies
https://www.google.com/search?q=depleted+uranium+iraq&client=firefox-a&hs=eOf&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=DIUpVLKOLoa4igKCwoCYAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw
I don't want to post any pictures, nor can I look at them because they are so just ... I just don't know what to say.
Anyone who thinks we are on some kind of humanitarian mission in Iraq needs to wake up.
Please send pictures to fundies who are pro life.
I know they don't care about Iraqis (so why are we 'helping' them?) but our troops are also affected by this and have had babies with birth defects as well.
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US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 depleted uranium rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003 (Original Post)
J_J_
Sep 2014
OP
I looked. God will not forgive this. We did it knowing it was dangerous. Are we using depleted
jwirr
Sep 2014
#1
Yeah I am 73 in two days and I remember when we had some hope left that things would get
jwirr
Sep 2014
#7
"Might makes right" is the only thing America can point to to justify its multiple war crimes.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
#5
jwirr
(39,215 posts)1. I looked. God will not forgive this. We did it knowing it was dangerous. Are we using depleted
uranium again?
reddread
(6,896 posts)2. and willy pete and torture and beheading
mad skills, serious tools.
our tax dollars at work.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)3. Makes on want to puke.
reddread
(6,896 posts)4. the saddest thing of all
being old enough to remember the possibilities and appreciate the slow arc of justice in this country.
that is completely behind us.
Im starting to wonder what flavor bootlickers taste?
jwirr
(39,215 posts)7. Yeah I am 73 in two days and I remember when we had some hope left that things would get
better. Gone, gone, gone.
reddread
(6,896 posts)8. disregard the misery you didnt cause
and have a happy birthday!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. "Might makes right" is the only thing America can point to to justify its multiple war crimes.
JEB
(4,748 posts)6. I no longer have to wonder
why the USA is referred to as the Great Satan. Depleted Uranium, cluster bombs, land mines: indeterminate killing is the USA way.
n/t