Bush and Blair and their nuclear wars: Depleted uranium

As the Pope lies in his coffin, we should also think today of all the others who are dead and dying from the depleted uranium nuclear disaster that will go on for millennia as the most fundamental legacy of a military imperialism of the Anglo Saxons that this Polish Pope and man of peace could do nothing to hold back. At least he tried.



Depleted uranium: "A dirty Tyson
'Depleted' uranium is in many ways a misnomer. For 'depleted' sounds weak.
The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price. It is dirt cheap,
toxic, waste from nuclear power plants and bomb production. However, uranium is
one of earth's heaviest elements and DU packs a Tyson's punch, smashing
through tanks, buildings and bunkers with equal ease, spontaneously catching fire as
it does so, and burning people alive. 'Crispy critters' is what US
servicemen call those unfortunate enough to be close. And, when John Pilger encountered
children killed at a greater distance he wrote: 'The children's skin had
folded back, like parchment, revealing veins and burnt flesh that seeped blood,
while the eyes, intact, stared straight ahead. I vomited.' (Daily Mirror)"