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To: maceng2 who wrote (915)	8/13/2006 6:15:51 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

Re DU usage. news.yahoo.com It won't be just USA people who suffer though. Thanks to Box on the CFZ thread for the link.

To: maceng2 who wrote (915)	8/13/2006 6:42:05 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

I think in time we will first acknowledge the problem wrt our own soldiers. It would be unusual if a heavy metal like this didn't cause some interesting systemic problems in a living system- and the more DU is studied, or the more soldiers who come down with illnesses unattributable to other things, the more likely it will be that DU will be implicated. It's unfortunate that things like this take so much time to be fixed- but DU is so useful, it's no wonder that militaries around the world don't want to use other materials. DU is an excellent material for warfare. It's too bad it also happens to be dangerous to one's own soldiers, and civilians...

To: maceng2 who wrote (915)	8/13/2006 7:07:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

I'm sure DU was used wherever there were enemy tanks or other armored vehicles. That's what its for - penetrate armor. Some of those places could be in urban areas - most likely on the outskirts of urban areas. As I recall Iraq's elite units were blocking the routes to Baghdad. Regardless it wasn't spread all over the country. I wouldn't disagree there might be health affects, though I doubt they are widespread. And it would be hard to pin them down to any particular case. Maybe some scrap metal dealer will have higher odds of getting cancer - something like that. IMO the antiwar movement is dramatically over-exaggerating any likely health problem. Iraq has its own elected leaders now. I don't recall them up in arms over this even if foreign antiwar folks wish they were.