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Unread postby killJOY » Thu 12 May 2005, 11:02:04

{This argument has been split and moved here-jato}

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n the other hand you can't blame troops for opening fire on cars with hardly any provocation

War: "a perpetual shithole that validates the most god-awful rationalizations." GOD BLESS

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Unread postby Specop_007 » Thu 12 May 2005, 11:37:40

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Unread postby Specop_007 » Thu 12 May 2005, 11:41:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n the other hand you can't blame troops for opening fire on cars with hardly any provocation


War: "a perpetual shithole that validates the most god-awful rationalizations."

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I hope your not implying that picture is from DU, becuase its not.

Nice job of spreading misinformation.
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Unread postby killJOY » Thu 12 May 2005, 12:46:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') hope your not implying that picture is from DU, becuase its not.
I'm open to refutation, by all means. If you can confirm, please supply a source. I would, in fact, appreciate it.
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Unread postby OilsNotWell » Thu 12 May 2005, 16:42:35

We'll I'm beginning to see that I'm going to have to repeat myself:

Flash Presentation - Depleted Uranium
http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html

And then see this US Dept. of Army video, which those going to Iraq don't get to see:

US Dept of Army DU Training Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm

Second Link to US D.of Army DU Video
http://213.84.233.194/DU/

Here's some more links

Responding to your links to GW2 illness in vets being found, see:

Heads Roll at VA - Mushrooming DU Scandal Blamed
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/headsroll.html
based on this:

DU - Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missles, Dirty Bulllets - A Death Sentence Here
and Abroad]
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml


Here's a clip:

Quote:
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that Gulf-era veterans now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a dirty bomb on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Here's are few other informative links:

Gulf War - Extreme Birth Deformities..WARNING!!! DISTURBING AND GRAPHIC CONTENT
http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

"NOTICE THE SHADOWS"
http://www.denniskyne.com/DU%20Photos.htm


Some Graphic Pictures of DU Babies (scroll down - WARNING!!!!! EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES - NC-17!!
EXTREME DU DEFORMITIES

DU The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

'War Crimes' in Iraq
War Crimes in Iraq

Daughter of Soldier Contaminated with Depleted Uranium in Iraq Born with Deformities
Soldier's Daughter

So.....you make the call spec..you're a parent...telll me how you feel after looking at those photos

You have eyes but yet you refuse to see.

This is not misinformation.

So I'll go one step further... and post a few, ok? With attribution, ok?


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had enough?

More are here:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')dditional pictures were taken by Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, President of the International Yellow Cross. Most appeared in his 1996 book "URANIUM PROJECTILES - SEVERELY MAIMED SOLDIERS, DEFORMED BABIES, DYING CHILDREN" (Published by AHRIMAN - Verlag, ISBN: 3-89484-805-7). The book is a documentary record of DU ammunition after-effects, and they were taken between 1993 and 1995. Dr. Gunther also supplied me with additional photographs from his unpublished collection, some of which feature the birth deformities being experienced by Western Gulf war veterans' children. I have asked Dr. Gunther's permission for his pictures to be treated as 'Public Domain' and copyright free. He has agreed and you may reproduce them as you see fit.

DU Kills


and how about these from a

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Which were found here:
Alliant Action

Oh, and KillJoy, you MUST see and read the site thoroughly:

Dennis Kyne - Support the Truth
Spec, he's a vet, who's mad as hell and not going to take the BS anymore...

And, spec, don't you hate it when I make you look like an ass, again?? :) Apparently subtlety doesn't work with you (I tried being polite HERE: http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic4628-30.html )
but now I know you must be b-slapped with the truth, repeatedly. The military is a neceessary institution and many many men have served with honor and distinction, and recognized for valor, including members of my family, and true soldiers would stand up and kick your ass if you agreed with this kind of warfare...

So, stop saying things you can't prove....and being a troll. You're better than that. THINK.
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Unread postby killJOY » Thu 12 May 2005, 16:50:30

Yes, repeat.....repeat...again. don't stop.

I did hear you the first time, though, and I checked out a lot of your sources. I just finished posting some on a separate thread:

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic7835.html

I'm also actively corresponding with some folks to get verification of facts. I know squat about radioactive isotopes.
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 11:40:46

The pictures are false. Oils can post all his bullshit propoganda he wants, those pictures ARE FALSE.
Its a skin disease of some type, and I cant remember the name of it. The rarity of the disease means theres very, very little exposure to it as its so rare most people dont even know about it. Which is nice in a way, because then asshats can use the pictures and claim it to be whatever they want it to be.
Regardless, it has NOTHING to do with DU rounds being used. Plain and simple. Its a skin disease in its most aggresive form, and a very rare disease at that.
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:03:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '[')b]OneSicPuppy Observed
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he pictures are false. Oils can post all his bullshit propoganda he wants, those pictures ARE FALSE.
Its a skin disease of some type, and I cant remember the name of it. The rarity of the disease means theres very, very little exposure to it as its so rare most people dont even know about it. Which is nice in a way, because then asshats can use the pictures and claim it to be whatever they want it to be.
Regardless, it has NOTHING to do with DU rounds being used. Plain and simple. Its a skin disease in its most aggresive form, and a very rare disease at that.


3 Stages of Truth

1/ It is ridiculed...as in above rant by one sic puppy

2/ It is violently opposed...all the sic puppies running around yapping and biting everyone.

3/ It is accepted as self-evident...sic puppies are nursed back to health...however some will need to be put down, eh Specop 007, how ya feeling?

Namaste


I'm feeling 100% correct. How are you feeling.

Oh, almost forgot.

I just owned you

Theres the info on that "horrible DU caused disease"

As I said, its NOT because of DU. DU is NOT dangerously radioactive. Period. End of story. Check the link I gave you, then google some images of it.

Any other questions?

Maybe the moral of the story here is dont trust information from aljazeera eh? I know their only job is to "report the truth" but lets try to at least use slightly credible resources shall we?
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Unread postby OilsNotWell » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:14:47

Specious, as I mentioned, you will have to be beaten on the head with the truth, repeatedly...

Here's another pic for ya...yeah, some SKIN DISEASE, huh, born with FUSED HANDS/FEET or a TUMOR in the mouth...

I apologize to others for using these in an inflammatory way, but Specious, you are like a Holocaust denier,...

Tell me Specious, do you still believe the Earth is flat?

When you pray, do you do so with your head inside or outside the toilet bowl?

And, finally, Specious, who reads these posts for you?

Keep digging that hole for yourself.


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Unread postby killJOY » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:24:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m feeling 100% correct. How are you feeling.
That's not the attitude of a critical thinker or a skeptic, it's the attitude of a convert.

You have not proven your case any more than Oil has. You're no doctor, you can't diagnose what the child has in the photograph, and you obviously have not read any of the links posted.

How about the testimony of a retired Major, whose "job was to prepare soldiers for nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare. He was in charge of cleaning up American tanks hit by friendly-fired depleted uranium (DU) munitions as well as helping casualties contaminated with DU."

He calls DU a NIGHTMARE.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rior to deployment to the Perisan Gulf, Dr. Rokke worked with the University of Illinois Physics Department and served in Vietnam. His PhD is in health physics. His original training was in forensic science. Today, he travels the global informing people and governments of the dangers of DU exposure.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dr Rokke', '"')You won’t find hardly anything on the web. If you go to the Department of Defense website, and you put in the “Depleted Uranium Project” for which I was director, you won’t find any of this stuff. You won’t find any report on the depleted uranium assessment team from Gulf War I, and all the reports we did. It’s just not there.
We had all these orders mandating medical care, going way back to day one.I issued the initial one and have a whole shitpot of medals. In ’91, the commanding general issued the order to provide medical care for everybody, identifying those who needed it. It never happened.
And then General Shinseki, who is retired as the head Army general, issued the order himself Aug. 14, 1993, mandating medical care, thorough environmental clean-up and remediation, and education and training. As a consequence of that, as director of the DU Project, we developed all the regulations, environmental clean-up, all the training and education, videotapes to support it, and in September of 2002 General Shinseki signed Army regulation AR700-48 making it mandatory. But they just ignore it."
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Unread postby OilsNotWell » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:32:53

You still didn't respond to my challenge to eat the tip of an AP ammo bullet, have ya Specious?

You SAID it was, and I quote, "HARMLESS".....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') was assigned to the ODS DU assessment team as the health physicist and medic by Headquarters Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. What we found can be explained in three words: "OH MY GOD".

This suggests that depleted uranium (U-238) is mobile and contaminating, air, water, and soil just as specified in the October 1943 letter to General Leslie Groves.

Depleted uranium (DU) which is 99.8% by mass U-238 is made from uranium hexaflouride, the byproduct of the uranium enrichment process. Recent documents released by the U.S. Department of Energy state that a small proportion of other toxic heavy metals such as plutonium also are present. Although the 60 % of the ionizing radiation given off by gamma emissions from U-235 and U-234 was eliminated during the enrichment process, alpha particles at 4.2 Mev and 4.15 Mev that cause significant internal ionization with consequent cellular damage were proportionally increased. The continuing incomplete statement that DU is 60% less radioactive than natural uranium simply ignores the serious internal damage caused by alpha emissions! In addition daughter products emit beta particles and gamma rays that may cause further radiological damage. While DU may not be an external hazard it is a very serious internal hazard. Consequent inhalation, ingestion, and wound contamination pose significant and unacceptable risks. Also spent penetrators or fragments emit beta particles at 300 mrem/ hour and thus can not be touched or picked up without protection.

It is important to realize that DU penetrators are solid uranium 238. THEY ARE NOT TIPPED OR COATED!!!! During an impact at least 40 % of the penetrator forms uranium oxides or fragments which are left on the terrain, within or on impacted equipment, or within impacted structures. The remainder of the penetrator retains its initial shape. Thus we are left with a solid piece of uranium lying someplace which can be picked up by children. DU also ignites in the air during flight and upon impact. The resulting shower of burning DU and DU fragments causes secondary explosions, fires, injury, and death. Simply: Who would want thousands of solid uranium pencils of masses between 180 and 4500 grams lying in your backyard? Who would want any uranium contamination of any type lying in your backyard?

-“The Child: A Victim of War and a Messenger of Peace”
United Nations – UNESCO International conference, May 24-25, 2001, Athens, Greece
presented by Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D Abu-Qare AW, Abou-Donia MB;
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

http://www.desertconcerns.org/duscourge.html




[URL=http://www.desertconcerns.org/duscourge.html]
The TOP DOD DEFENSE OFFICIAL on DU (U-238)[/URL]

DU is U-238.

Note to yourself how this BASIC fact has remained hidden from you up until now....and why....

DU is U-238.
DU is U-238.

It is radioactive

Care to withdraw your assertion yet, Specious?

Slink away in the corner? Kind of hard now that you put your word on the line, isn't it?

And why do you insist on jumping threads on this argument?
I expose your ignorance on one and you hop to another...

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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:34:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m feeling 100% correct. How are you feeling.
That's not the attitude of a critical thinker or a skeptic, it's the attitude of a convert.

You have not proven your case any more than Oil has. You're no doctor, you can't diagnose what the child has in the photograph, and you obviously have not read any of the links posted.

How about the testimony of a retired Major, whose "job was to prepare soldiers for nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare. He was in charge of cleaning up American tanks hit by friendly-fired depleted uranium (DU) munitions as well as helping casualties contaminated with DU."

He calls DU a NIGHTMARE.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rior to deployment to the Perisan Gulf, Dr. Rokke worked with the University of Illinois Physics Department and served in Vietnam. His PhD is in health physics. His original training was in forensic science. Today, he travels the global informing people and governments of the dangers of DU exposure.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dr Rokke', '"')You won’t find hardly anything on the web. If you go to the Department of Defense website, and you put in the “Depleted Uranium Project” for which I was director, you won’t find any of this stuff. You won’t find any report on the depleted uranium assessment team from Gulf War I, and all the reports we did. It’s just not there.
We had all these orders mandating medical care, going way back to day one.I issued the initial one and have a whole shitpot of medals. In ’91, the commanding general issued the order to provide medical care for everybody, identifying those who needed it. It never happened.
And then General Shinseki, who is retired as the head Army general, issued the order himself Aug. 14, 1993, mandating medical care, thorough environmental clean-up and remediation, and education and training. As a consequence of that, as director of the DU Project, we developed all the regulations, environmental clean-up, all the training and education, videotapes to support it, and in September of 2002 General Shinseki signed Army regulation AR700-48 making it mandatory. But they just ignore it."

What am I denying?
Of COURSE its a hazard!
Of COURSE its a nigthmare to clean up!
Of COURSE its a health risk!
Of COURSE it needs cleaned up!

I've never said it doesnt!

But maybe I should do like OIls does, and go find some pictures of someone with herpes or genital warts. Then I'll post the pictures and label it "This is what eating meat does to you!" (Well, I guess eating "meat" COULD do it to you....)
And by the way, I posted the medical definition and description of the picure in question. Whats not to understand? Not some questionable website trying to push an agenda, but a medical website. Those pictures are not representative of DU's evil horrible afteraffects!
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:38:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilsNotWell', 'Y')ou still didn't respond to my challenge to eat the tip of an AP ammo bullet, have ya Specious?

You SAID it was, and I quote, "HARMLESS".....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') was assigned to the ODS DU assessment team as the health physicist and medic by Headquarters Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. What we found can be explained in three words: "OH MY GOD".

This suggests that depleted uranium (U-238) is mobile and contaminating, air, water, and soil just as specified in the October 1943 letter to General Leslie Groves.

Depleted uranium (DU) which is 99.8% by mass U-238 is made from uranium hexaflouride, the byproduct of the uranium enrichment process. Recent documents released by the U.S. Department of Energy state that a small proportion of other toxic heavy metals such as plutonium also are present. Although the 60 % of the ionizing radiation given off by gamma emissions from U-235 and U-234 was eliminated during the enrichment process, alpha particles at 4.2 Mev and 4.15 Mev that cause significant internal ionization with consequent cellular damage were proportionally increased. The continuing incomplete statement that DU is 60% less radioactive than natural uranium simply ignores the serious internal damage caused by alpha emissions! In addition daughter products emit beta particles and gamma rays that may cause further radiological damage. While DU may not be an external hazard it is a very serious internal hazard. Consequent inhalation, ingestion, and wound contamination pose significant and unacceptable risks. Also spent penetrators or fragments emit beta particles at 300 mrem/ hour and thus can not be touched or picked up without protection.

It is important to realize that DU penetrators are solid uranium 238. THEY ARE NOT TIPPED OR COATED!!!! During an impact at least 40 % of the penetrator forms uranium oxides or fragments which are left on the terrain, within or on impacted equipment, or within impacted structures. The remainder of the penetrator retains its initial shape. Thus we are left with a solid piece of uranium lying someplace which can be picked up by children. DU also ignites in the air during flight and upon impact. The resulting shower of burning DU and DU fragments causes secondary explosions, fires, injury, and death. Simply: Who would want thousands of solid uranium pencils of masses between 180 and 4500 grams lying in your backyard? Who would want any uranium contamination of any type lying in your backyard?

-“The Child: A Victim of War and a Messenger of Peace”
United Nations – UNESCO International conference, May 24-25, 2001, Athens, Greece
presented by Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D Abu-Qare AW, Abou-Donia MB;
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

http://www.desertconcerns.org/duscourge.html




[URL=http://www.desertconcerns.org/duscourge.html]
The TOP DOD DEFENSE OFFICIAL on DU (U-238)[/URL]

DU is U-238.

Note to yourself how this BASIC fact has remained hidden from you up until now....and why....

DU is U-238.
DU is U-238.

It is radioactive

Care to withdraw your assertion yet, Specious?

Slink away in the corner? Kind of hard now that you put your word on the line, isn't it?

And why do you insist on jumping threads on this argument?
I expose your ignorance on one and you hop to another...

[URL=http://peakoil.com/fortopic7847-0.html]
http://peakoil.com/fortopic7847-0.html[/URL]

http://peakoil.com/fortopic4628.html

http://peakoil.com/fortopic7835.html

Ah Oils. I love a diehard liberal. Their thought processes are so out of the nrm as to be nearly impossible to follow.
I "thread jumped" because the picture was posted in more then 1 thread. But (as usual for your kind) dont call out the pic poster. Funny how THAT works.

So, if DU is SOOOO radioactive, why is it called DEPLETED? Why can I go out RIGHT NOW and buy as much of it as I want? And store it on my counter! Or hand it out to kids!

I could go on, but you (as usual for your kind) willr efuse to believe ANY fact that doesnt tie in to your little parade and agenda. So why bother? You'll simply degrade (Actually, already have!) into name calling. Funny, liberals are ALWAYS the same. If ya cant win with skewed facts, just start calling people names.

Since you've moved beyond posting questioable and one sided facts and have just went right on into name calling, I'll just have to concede.
Your right Oils. Everything you say is right.
Happy?

Anyone else who's more level headed and civilized want to carry on?
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 13:50:39

Oils, you were so friendly in one of those other threads..
"First of all, specop, I like reading your posts because, well, I like your fighting spirit, and you keep things interesting. But first watch this flash presentation, then the army video, the graphic pictures...then do your own research on "depleted uranium", or see the following links...and maybe you might see things differently. "

Why'd you have to go and suddenly be a dick? Having a bad day? I can understand that and let it slide, we all have bad days.

In that Flash Video you posted in one of the other threads too, whats the music in the background? I dig it.
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Unread postby OilsNotWell » Fri 13 May 2005, 14:03:18

Ah, Spec...

you said:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')U is harmless unless you breathe the dust.
Dont believe me?
ANY of us can buy it right over the counter, and its used in many applications outside of war.


http://peakoil.com/fortopic4628-0-asc-45.html

HARMLESS.....you are incredible...like I said before I like your posts because you keep things interesting...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')epleted uranium (DU) which is 99.8% by mass U-238 is made from uranium hexaflouride, the byproduct of the uranium enrichment process. Recent documents released by the U.S. Department of Energy state that a small proportion of other toxic heavy metals such as plutonium also are present. Although the 60 % of the ionizing radiation given off by gamma emissions from U-235 and U-234 was eliminated during the enrichment process, alpha particles at 4.2 Mev and 4.15 Mev that cause significant internal ionization with consequent cellular damage were proportionally increased. The continuing incomplete statement that DU is 60% less radioactive than natural uranium simply ignores the serious internal damage caused by alpha emissions! In addition daughter products emit beta particles and gamma rays that may cause further radiological damage. While DU may not be an external hazard it is a very serious internal hazard. Consequent inhalation, ingestion, and wound contamination pose significant and unacceptable risks. Also spent penetrators or fragments emit beta particles at 300 mrem/ hour and thus can not be touched or picked up without protection.

Army Scientist Says

You obviously don't read through any of the links that have been posted.

I'm sorry to have to teach in such a brutal way, but your denial defenses are quite strong, sweetie...That's actually a compliment, since your ability to question in the face of opposition is a valuable asset.

And, you're right, no excuse for ad hominen attacks and I apologize. I try to admit when I am wrong.

And, oh, by the way, be careful about your liberal assumptions...you really have no idea where I fit along the political spectrum, what I generally believe, and so forth. And it's NOT about an ideology, it's about the truth. You are certainly correct that if an ideology is making you blind to the facts, then it should be re-examined.

Food for thought for you. And me.

EDIT. added aAnd me." Everyone is biased in some way. It is unavoidable to the human condition.
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Unread postby OilsNotWell » Fri 13 May 2005, 14:05:32

And you've got great toys. I likey.
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Unread postby killJOY » Fri 13 May 2005, 14:05:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')h Oils. I love a diehard liberal.
What does this have to do with anything? DU either causes mutations and death, or it doesn't. It has nothing to do with politics.

The photographs come from the following source and were not just picked up somewhere. Your medical definition comes from a separate source which is not associated with the picture. Here's the picture source:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')dditional pictures were taken by Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, President of the International Yellow Cross. Most appeared in his 1996 book "URANIUM PROJECTILES - SEVERELY MAIMED SOLDIERS, DEFORMED BABIES, DYING CHILDREN" (Published by AHRIMAN - Verlag, ISBN: 3-89484-805-7). The book is a documentary record of DU ammunition after-effects, and they were taken between 1993 and 1995. Dr. Gunther also supplied me with additional photographs from his unpublished collection, some of which feature the birth deformities being experienced by Western Gulf war veterans' children. I have asked Dr. Gunther's permission for his pictures to be treated as 'Public Domain' and copyright free. He has agreed and you may reproduce them as you see fit.


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Unread postby Specop_007 » Fri 13 May 2005, 14:17:38

Oils,
You realize uranium is present, and fairly commonly at that, in every dirt right? In fact, I've heard granite would have large concentrations of uranium.
You realize even the Army video you posted support me in saying DU is harmless.

Perhaps I use "harmless" in a sense your not used to.
You realize theres NO toxic substances on earth right? Oly toxic doses. You can kill yourself drinking pure plain old tap water.
From that standpoint, DU really truly is harmless. It emits primarily alpha particles which cant penetrate skin.
So, as long as your not sprinkling DU on your Wheaties in the morning, you have nothing to worry about. As for any Gulf War syndrome, people dont know if it was a reaction to immunizations, if it was from DU, if it was from chemical usage from Saddam's part, if it was from the radioactive materials in the Russian tanks (They use Radium for instrument illumination) or if it was from exposures to camels. They DONT KNOW. So, to point to GW Syndrome as DU being bad is pretty damned sketchy to say the least.
Not saying GWS doesnt exist, but the correlation to DU exposure has not been proven, except to use it to push a personal agenda.

As for personal attacks, I do them sometimes too. I'm really REALLY tryin not to though. Theres simply no reason for it in an online discussion board.

As for imparting "facts", well, theres always 2 sides to every "fact" unfortunately.
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Unread postby killJOY » Fri 13 May 2005, 14:21:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')heres always 2 sides to every "fact" unfortunately.

Negative. I'd call that a "post-modern" view, a "relativist" view. Otherwise, anything goes.
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