Depleted Uranium

[Carl Remick]

> This is not specific to Yugoslavia, but relevant to DU in 
> general. There 
> is much uninformed hysteria about this subject (e.g. claims that NATO
> was using "nuclear weapons" against Serbia.)
> 
> From <http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug1998/n08101998_9808107.html>:
> 
>  Bernard Rostker, special assistant to the secretary of defense
>  for Gulf War illnesses, said during a Pentagon news conference
>  Aug. 4 that even veterans most severely exposed to depleted
>  uranium show no symptoms.
>  ...
>  Rostker said even a worst-case scenario does not show release of
>  significant enough amounts of depleted uranium to harm people. A
>  worst-case scenario, according to investigators, would be two
>  depleted uranium rounds hitting a uranium-sheathed Abrams tank.

Whoo-wee!  Not just Pentagon denials but HIGH-LEVEL Pentagon denials, at
that -- who could fail to be convinced of DU's non-toxicity on the basis
of such powerful, independent evidence?


>  DoD will continue the investigation into depleted uranium.

Do keep us posted!  Once those truth-ferrets at the Defense Dept. get
their teeth into something, no mystery remains unsolved for long.


> "Truth unfolds in time through a communal process."

What is the Pentagon, after all, but the ultimate commune?

Carl Remick