> Battlefields are polluted, nasty places but depleted uranium shells
> are not nuclear warfare and getting hysterical about them makes
> lefties look as though they are too squeamish to be trusted with
> matters of war and peace.
humbug!
i've written briefly on this, with some rather good references, here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg80058.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg80133.html
see web-site linked listed in item #2 in that second URL for a well-reasoned case for calling DU weapons nuclear weapons.
les schaffer