109 dead Italian troops due to DU poisoning

[donsu]

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410191947-1213-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

DEPLETED URANIUM: OBSERVATORY LAMENTS DENIAL
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Oct. 19 - According to the Italian Military Health Observatory a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium. The observatory stressed the fact that 41 pct of active personnel casualties relate to disease. According to Domenico Leggiero at the Military Health Observatory, "The total of 109 casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted uranium". Leggiero pointed out the fact that the Senate has to date failed to establish a probe committee on this matter: "it is proof of a worrying lack of oversight on matters which are frankly dramatic". Members of the Observatory have petitioned a urgent hearing "in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers".
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wonder what the US body count is?

(Clinton charged our military/VA admin. to take all precautions with DU but they ignored the charge.)

[clonebot]

1. YES WE POISONED THEIR MINDS! US! THE DUers!

WE ARE EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED! MUST THE KILLING CONTINUE?? THINK OF THE CHILDREN! ;)

[rocktivity]

2. We've GOT to come up with a way to differentiate depleted uranium from DU

could we call depleted uranium DepU or D-U or something?

:crazy:
rocknation

[aden_nak]

4. /agree

[clonebot]

5. NO!!

then i won't be funny anymore. :(

[DemBones DemBones]

6. "anymore"? When were you funny?

:evilgrin:

[clonebot]

9. HEY

i'm gonna get on the radio, get a ultra conservative base, brainwash them, and then tell them to go after you with their air rifles! WHO WILL BE LAUGHING THEN demBones you bony skeleton guy.

...

i stayed up all last night playing ssx3 on gamecube. sorry.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. The most effective prevention would be not to sell them to the US

for use as expendables in its various population reduction activities.

[donsu]

7. ain't that the truth

nt

[MadHound]

8. Sell to the US, hell, that shit is virtually given away

Seen as a useless byproduct of the fision process, DU is virtually given away to the military and private companies by the nation's nuclear reactors.

This is a win win situation for all concerned. The reactors get to rid themselves of a waste product that they would otherwise have to spend big bucks either storing on site, or transporting to store somewhere else. The defense industry gets the raw material for their bunker busters cheap, as do the companies who mill DU into various kinds of shielding material for other radioactive products.

[seventhson]

10. I am sure the US bocy count is much much higher

www.radiation.org

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

11. The Iraqis have lived with this crap for 14 years

How many hundreds of thousands of them have died from du poisoning? This is a country that has never done anything to america!! It's an arab holocaust but the media never mentions it.

[seventhson]

12. The Nuclear Inmdustry should be brought up on Nuremberg-style charges

It is much worse than most suspect and it is a wmd in our backyards leaking poison on all of us daily


see www.radiation.org