Reply #37: I did not know Wes said this...Does he still feel this way? [View All]

[chknltl]

The biggest problem from the depleted uranium happens AFTER it has been fired. It leaves a vapor trail of depleted uranium oxide particles. Next as it impacts anything solid it creates a cloud of depleted uranium oxide particles. The radioactivity of this stuff, though very small as Wes states, does it's damage through persistence. These microscopic particles easily pass through the military mops gear (anti biological/radiological gear standard military issue) and get into the human body via the very air we breath! Once in, the single particle tends to find a place to lodge, this could be ANY internal organ to include sex organs, and sends out it's deadly little pulse of radiation. The damage cumulates over time, the effect is unstoppable, (halflife almost 5 billion years), and radiation damage will build and build until that particle exits the body...(the body could have been turned to dust thousands of years later before that might happen). THIS IS BUT ONE PARTICLE.

Folks exposed to DU OXIDE particles through respiration are hardly going to be lucky enough to ONLY BREATH IN A SINGLE PARTICLE. Oh yeah and I mentioned sex organs for a good reason: There are documented cases where infected soldiers have come home and infected their girlfriends through sex AND there is documentation out there about children being born to these infected soldiors...that stuff is a horror that keeps going and going. Google Leuren Moret or Dennis Kynes or Doug Rokke and learn more if you really don't know about this...

leftchick, I started this as a response to you but it appears that my words have morphed into an intended education to all who read your post and this thread who may not know about what I am saying here. I know that I am preaching to the choir here but some of our fellow DUers may be sitting on the fence inre. to this issue. This is the very issue which brings me to the Democratic Underground. Vets, click on my "Beyond Treason" signature line if you or anyone of you reading my words would like a DVD which discusses this.

Perhaps Wes Clark believed what he was saying back when he said those things...if he is still saying this OR if he has not retracted these statements then he has my strong disgust starting right now. I would challenge him to go to those sites contaminated with DU Oxide and handle that stuff...he has got to know better. Holy Hell, I have been singing his praises for 2 years now...If he is really still saying these things I'll lead an ANTI CLARK charge here in the DU that even the free republic will be talking about!