Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home (to Kansas)

[donsu]

http://www.sfbayview.com/110905/radioactivetank110905.shtml

Across the plains of Kansas, destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks, perched on railroad flatcars, rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting death mask. The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium."

The Abrams tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster than an F-16 fighter aircraft, mach III to airplane pilots and very, very fast to the rest of us.

American taxpayers paid to ship the tanks to Iraq and to return them for disposal or re-building in the United States. The tanks are 12 feet wide and weigh a stout 70 tons, or 140,000 pounds.

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From America to Iraq and back, these giant radioactive hulks can only sicken and kill Americans. On top of the sheer, unrelenting stupidity of playing with radiation with unsuspecting soldiers, now the neo-con government is involving everyday Americans in their radiation madness.

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and the article ends with:

"In my view, use of DU weaponry violates the grave breach provisions of the Geneva Conventions," Parker concluded, "and so its use constitutes a war crime, or crime against humanity."

in my view too - bushgang crimes against americans and the world.

drag them out of the W.H., Pentagon, halls of Justice and the military and throw their traitorous behinds in prison.

[MuseRider]

1. Well, I wondered

where in Kansas they were and worried that they would come on the tracks by my farm. Well, I was looking for tanks but these don't look like what I was looking for. They look just like the flat beds that spent about 2 weeks parked down the tracks from my farm. I rarely drive that road but it is between me and the feed store so I will make a point to go back and see if they are still there and take some pictures. Shit, shit, shit.

[donsu]

3. let us know please and do the people of Kansas know about this

radiation in their midst?

[MuseRider]

6. See my post below. n/t

[MuseRider]

2. You know what,

this is very interesting. I saw an article about this a couple of weeks ago here on DU but then got really busy and forgot about it (yikes, there is enough stuff going on to forget about this?).

I have not seen or heard one single word about it here in Topeka, nothing at all yet I get two articles about it from across the country where people are concerned.

I have forwarded this link to the governor and to two other people who I am close to who work directly with her because I know they will open my mail and read it and make her aware of it. My guess is that she doesn't even know about this, or at least not about the DU part of it or I think we would have heard about it. Children playing around these tanks as they sit there? How could this happen?

[AngryAmish]

4. DU is not radioactive

Well, everything is radioactive but this is ridiculous.

Again, DU is a toxic heavy metal but not radioactive.

Did they learn science in a KKKristian school?

[Sinistrous]

9. Am I correct that DU is most dangerous in particulate form, in which it

can be inhaled? I have heard that a slab of DU is not particularly dangerous until it is burned, ground up, or destroyed by explosion.

Sinistrous

[AngryAmish]

11. Yup.

I would not want to inhale lead dust and DU is very similar to lead.

[sam sarrha]

5. check these- out propaganda free ..,LINKS ...to Depleted Uranium

this is the best source of info
http://www.robert-fisk.com/depleted_uranium_links.htm

this one is VERY DISTURBING !!!! PHOTOS OF THE BIRTH DEFECTS CAUSED BY DEPLETED URANIUM.. AND IT IS FOR EVER IT NEVER BREAKS DOWN
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/gulf_war_syndrome/uranium_infanticide.html

[MuseRider]

7. Donsu thanks

I just posted the link in the Kansas Forum.

I am not sure any of us would have known about this or where in Kansas they are if you had not posted this. Damn shame, shameful behavior of our government.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Didn't they talk about shipping nuclear waste across KS a few years ago?

And wasn't a HUGE deal made out of that and then the plan abandoned?

I'm with you on this, Muse, this is scary in so many ways.

[MuseRider]

10. Yes they did

and I know an old woman who actually put on white and went out and stood on the tracks with a bunch of other people. They were arrested and the trains went on through. Also trucks. Yes it is a big deal and I don't think it was ever abandoned entirely, probably just undercover of darkness or coverup.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. So how long do you figure the press will ignore this?

I am sending it to a couple reporters here in KC. One TV station did an expose on a farmer buying fertilizer not long ago. Turns out he couldn't have built any bombs with it but the TV station certainly left the impression that he could. I would hope they would be interested in this story.

[MuseRider]

13. Good for you.

Hell, I buy fertilizer by the tons. We all share it since we can no longer get it close by.

Good luck, I will do the same but I doubt anyone in my area will be able to squeeze it in between the sports news and the good news. :eyes: I no longer watch. If it had been covered by anyone the others would have picked it up at some point and we would have heard about it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. The fertilizer story

was on channel 5. They secretly taped a farmer buying a large amount and implied that was enough to make a sizable bomb. They interviewed the owner of the feed store (it was in Tonganoxie) and he said hey, that's the wrong kind of fertilizer. They aired the story anyway. The media watchdogs blasted them, the farmer and the feed store owner filed lawsuits and many laughed at their stupidity. But that reporter still has a job on that station. :eyes:

So guess who I sent that link on this story to? :)

I also sent a link to the environmental reporter at The Star.

You know who else we should contact? Did you ever meet Hatrack at one of our meetups? He is into environmental issues and seems quite knowledgable. I'll send him a PM.

:hi:

[MuseRider]

15. Good idea.

I have never had the pleasure of meeting him, I have always missed him.