6-year-old loses eye to Israeli rubber bullet

[Roudy]

WHY IS DU WEAPONRY ALREADY ILLEGAL?

The depleted uranium (DU) weaponry that the United States is using in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has used in the former Yugoslavia, is clearly illegal.

This is an essential point that the public, and victims of DU poisoning, including U.S. veterans, need to understand and stress in their arguments against DU weapons.

DU weapons fail the 4 point legal test, as international lawyer Karen Parker describes below:

A weapon is made illegal two ways: (1) by adoption of a specific treaty banning it; and (2) because it may not be used without violating the existing law and customs of war. A weapon made illegal only because there is a specific treaty banning it is only illegal for countries that ratify such a treaty. A weapon that is illegal by operation of existing law is illegal for all countries. This is true even if there is also a treaty on this weapon and a country has not ratified that treaty.

The laws and customs of war (humanitarian law) includes all treaties governing military operations, weapons and protection of victims of war as well as all customary international law on these subjects. In other words, in evaluating whether a particular weapon is legal or illegal when there is not a specific treaty, the whole of humanitarian law must be consulted.

There are four rules derived from the whole of humanitarian law regarding weapons:

(1) Weapons may only be used in the legal field of battle, defined as legal military targets of the enemy in the war. Weapons may not have an adverse effect off the legal field of battle. (The "territorial" test).

(2) Weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict. A weapon that is used or continues to act after the war is over violates this criterion. (The "temporal" test).

(3) Weapons may not be unduly inhumane. (The "humaneness" test).

(4) Weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment. (The "environmental" test).

DU weaponry fails all four tests:

(1) It cannot be "contained" to legal fields of battle and thus fails the territorial test.

(2) It continues to act after hostilities are over and thus fails the temporal test.

(3) It is inhumane and thus fails the humaneness test. DU is inhumane because of how it can kill -- by cancer, kidney disease, etc. long after the hostilities are over. DU is inhumane because it causes birth (genetic) defects thus effecting children (who may never be a military target) and who are born after the war is over. The use of DU weapons may be characterized as genocidal by burdening gene pools of future generations.

(4) DU cannot be used without unduly damaging the natural environment and thus fails the environment test.

THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS IS ILLEGAL *PIC*

I would be ashamed if all I could do was cut and paste lying propaganda. Off topic propaganda at that. The OP is about a 6 year old losing an eye. Was he shot with a DU round, ShiaSherri?

The way Sherri carries on you would think the kid was shot in the eye with a Tomahawk missle.

Meanwhile she doesn't even bat an eye when Assad drops poison gas on his own people, killing 400 kids in their sleep. Oh wait, she DOES care. She'll find a way to make it look as if the Jooooos did it. Ha ha ha. Disgusting.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

No evidence Assad used chemical weapons against civilians, but lots of evidence Israel has!

 

[Roudy]

No evidence Assad used chemical weapons against civilians, but lots of evidence Israel has!

See, I told you. Like clockwork, they repeat the same garbage. Fake outrage over this Palestinian boy, 400 children die when Assad drops poison gas...THE JOOOS DID IT.

Picture of Sherri blaming the Jooos for everything under the sun:

 

[Peterf]

Show me one report of a suicide bombing in Iraq before the US invasion.

Show me one report of a suicide bombing anywhere before the Norman invasion.

Logic is not your forte, is it Mr Tinmore. Let me explain: because B happened after A it not mean that A caused B. Some Greek chap pointed this out over 2000 years ago.

You make a claim about suicide bombings in Iraq, you back it up.

Not so. I made no 'claim' about suicide bombings in Iraq. I pointed out the absurditiy of someone else's unsupported and illogical assertion.

 

[P F Tinmore]

White Phosphorous weapons

Depleted Uranium Weapons, to include D.I.M.E. weapons

Explain what a depleted uranium weapon is and what affect it has, genius.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcCWaLXXJI]Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube[/ame]

You're welcome, Bloodrock.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Explain what a depleted uranium weapon is and what affect it has, genius.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcCWaLXXJI]Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube[/ame]

You're welcome, Bloodrock.

Health aspects of DU

Depleted uranium is not classified as a dangerous substance radiologically, though it is a potential hazard in large quantities, beyond what could conceivably be breathed. Its emissions are very low, since the half-life of U-238 is the same as the age of the Earth (4.5 billion years). There are no reputable reports of cancer or other negative health effects from radiation exposure to ingested or inhaled natural or depleted uranium, despite much study.

However, uranium does have a chemical toxicity about the same as that of lead, so inhaled fume or ingested oxide is considered a health hazard. Most uranium actually absorbed into the body is excreted within days, the balance being laid down in bone and kidneys. Its biological effect is principally kidney damage. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a tolerable daily intake level for uranium of 0.6 microgram/kg body weight, orally. (This is about eight times our normal background intake from natural sources.) Standards for drinking water and concentrations in air are set accordingly.

Like most radionuclides, it is not known as a carcinogen, or to cause birth defects (from effects in utero) or to cause genetic mutations. Radiation from DU munitions depends on how long since the uranium has been separated from the lighter isotopes so that its decay products start to build up. Decay of U-238 gives rise to Th-234, Pa-234 (beta emitters) and U-234 (an alpha emitter)m. On this basis, in a few months, DU is weakly radioactive with an activity of around 40 kBq/g quoted. (If it is fresh from the enrichment plant and hence fairly pure, the activity is 15 kBq/g, compared with 25 kBq/g for pure natural uranium. Fresh DU from enriching reprocessed uranium has U-236 in it and more U-234 so is about 23 kBq/g.)

In 2001, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) examined the effects of nine tonnes of DU munitions having been used in Kosovo, checking the sites targeted by it5. UNEP found no widespread contamination, no sign of contamination in water of the food chain and no correlation with reported ill-health in NATO peacekeepers. A two-year study6 by Sandia National Laboratories in USA reported in 2005 that consistent with earlier studiesn, reports of serious health risks from DU exposure during the 1991 Gulf War are not supported by medical statistics or by analysis.

An editorial in the Radiological Protection Bulletin of the UK's National Radiation Protection Board stated: "DU is radioactive and doses from inhalation of dust or from handling bare spent rounds need to be assessed properly. However, the scientific consensus at present is that the risks are likely to be small and easily avoidable, especially compared with the other risks the armed forces have to take in war."8

Thus DU is clearly dangerous for military targets, but for anyone else – even in a war zone – there is little hazard. Ingestion or inhalation of uranium oxide dust resulting from the impact of DU munitions on their targets is the main possible exposure route.

Uranium and Depleted Uranium

 

[irosie91]

Todd----have some compassion for the limited intellectual capacity
of-----jihadists

 

[Bloodrock44]

Explain what a depleted uranium weapon is and what affect it has, genius.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcCWaLXXJI]Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube[/ame]

You're welcome, Bloodrock.

For what, Ahmed? Your lying propaganda? You really expect us to believe DU did that? You expect us to believe DU is a chemical weapon? I was a tank commander of an M1A1 Abrams tank. A DU round does not explode. It's a projectile comprised of a rod a little over a foot long weighing 9 pounds and travels a mile a second. It's only used against enemy armor. Why would anyone use a round that cost a couple of thousand dollars when a 99 cent bullet would do the trick more effectively?

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Unbelievable, the words that come from the mouths of Zionists.

You would think depleted uranium was candy we should all be lining up to buy.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

White Phosphorous weapons

Depleted Uranium Weapons, to include D.I.M.E. weapons

Explain what a depleted uranium weapon is and what affect it has, genius.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcCWaLXXJI]Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube[/ame]

4.5 billion year half-life means the Middle East is contaminated.........forever. LOL!

What a bunch of ignorant claptrap.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Testimony before UN about depleted uranium causing birth defects in Iraq

ALSO, testimony of other adverse consequences of US invasion of Iraq in 2003!

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Explain what a depleted uranium weapon is and what affect it has, genius.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcCWaLXXJI]Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube[/ame]

4.5 billion year half-life means the Middle East is contaminated.........forever. LOL!

What a bunch of ignorant claptrap.

The US has contaminated Iraq forever.

That is a fact, why can your mind not comprehend this?

Do you think it is funny?

 

[Bloodrock44]

Unbelievable, the words that come from the mouths of Zionists.

You would think depleted uranium was candy we should all be lining up to buy.

You own a tank Frau ShiaSherri? That's what shoots a DU round.

 

[Bloodrock44]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvW5N8g055Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Testimony before UN about depleted uranium causing birth defects in Iraq

ALSO, testimony of other adverse consequences of US invasion of Iraq in 2003!

Yawn. Another Pallywood propaganda production.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Beyond Treason (Depleted Uranium US-WMD Iraq War Veterans Dying 2005).divx2 - YouTube

4.5 billion year half-life means the Middle East is contaminated.........forever. LOL!

What a bunch of ignorant claptrap.

The US has contaminated Iraq forever.

That is a fact, why can your mind not comprehend this?

Do you think it is funny?

Depleted uranium is one of the least radioactive elements in existence.
Your poor math skills don't make your ignorant whining any more credible.

 

[Roudy]

No evidence Assad used chemical weapons against civilians, but lots of evidence Israel has!

Vegas odds are Assad did it, and the UN and world just agreed. In fact he same Syrians who lied about having chemical weapons, just admitted to having them and agreed to dismantling and destroying their stockpiles.

But I guess it doesn't matter to you that Assad just took out 400 Syrian kids in one swoop. As long as he's Israel's enemy, that's the inky thing that counts to Sherri.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

The UN has made no findings about who was behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

They are investigating alleged chemical weapons use in multiple incidents.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

4.5 billion year half-life means the Middle East is contaminated.........forever. LOL!

What a bunch of ignorant claptrap.

The US has contaminated Iraq forever.

That is a fact, why can your mind not comprehend this?

Do you think it is funny?

Depleted uranium is one of the least radioactive elements in existence.
Your poor math skills don't make your ignorant whining any more credible.

Your ignorance is glaring.

I will believe the UN and intl authorities, what they report about depleted uranium, they have knowledge and expertise you lack.

 

[irosie91]

Unbelievable, the words that come from the mouths of Zionists.

You would think depleted uranium was candy we should all be lining up to buy.

Sherri----did you pass high school geometry? I tutored lots of kids with
your level of intellect thru high school geometry. Uranium is a metal
that exists IN NATURE Like all other metals---it contains various ISOTOPES
of the metal atom for which it is named (a common name exists are per ATOMIC
NUMBER----number of protons) The isotopes of a particular named substance
have variable numbers of NEUTRONS The isotope that is important in sustaining
FISSION in Uranium is U235 it is also a "radioactive" isotope in that it ---gives
up radiation. Depleted Uranium is Uranium which actually has LESS U235 than
natural Uranium and thus is LESS RADIOACTIVE than is natural Uranium.
Lots of stuff is radioactive ----there is a baseline level of RADIATION all over the planet--
all the time ..........
Depleted Uranium is useful because it is a VERY HARD AND DENSE METAL----it is
not useful as a RADIATION PRODUCING SUBSTANCE ----in fact it can be used as
a SHIELD

Its use in weaponry is based on its hardness and density-----no actual link
between its military use and cancer incidence has ever been demonstrated.
CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION ----there are lots and lots and lots of
STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS between cancer and all kinds of activities and
substances in the medical literature and even more in the popular literature----
proving a CASUATIVE issue----is quite an undertaking ----but can be done----
and has been done for all kinds of "cacinogens" like the tars taken to the
lung by smokers-----or THE INHALLATION of ASBESTOS-----but depleted
uranium has never been demonstrated to be a cause of cancer in any animal
or in humans --------Folate deficiency has been demonstrated a cause of
SPIINA BIFIDA in human fetuses-----so take your pre-natal vitamins ----ladies.
Ignore the jihado nazis

agent orange does not cause impotence

coca cola is not a HEALTH POTION

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The US has contaminated Iraq forever.

That is a fact, why can your mind not comprehend this?

Do you think it is funny?

Depleted uranium is one of the least radioactive elements in existence.
Your poor math skills don't make your ignorant whining any more credible.

Your ignorance is glaring.

I will believe the UN and intl authorities, what they report about depleted uranium, they have knowledge and expertise you lack.

If their expertise leads them to say that depleted uranium is dangerously radioactive, they need new experts.

Radiation shielding

238U is also used as a radiation shield — its alpha radiation is easily stopped by the non-radioactive casing of the shielding and the uranium's high atomic weight and high number of electrons are highly effective in absorbing gamma rays and x-rays. It is not as effective as ordinary water for stopping fast neutrons. Both metallic depleted uranium and depleted uranium dioxide are used for radiation shielding. Uranium is about five times better as a gamma ray shield than lead, so a shield with the same effectiveness can be packed into a thinner layer.

DUCRETE, a concrete made with uranium dioxide aggregate instead of gravel, is being investigated as a material for dry cask storage systems to store radioactive waste.

Uranium-238 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia