If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Stop for a second and think about what it means to be using depleted uranium (DU) in artillary shells and bombs. Think there are any long term health costs to the troops using them? What do you think is happening to the civilians in the countries where they are being used?

The Silent Genocide from America

"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death. When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of the future have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah. This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America, a silence death from which I know we will not escape." (Jooma Khan of Laghman province, March 2003)

Hazards of Uranium weapons for Afghanistan and Iraq

The existence and use of weapons with large uranium warheads - radiological bombs - remains a closely guarded military secret. Their use and hazards have been the subject of systematic misinformation by NATO and other sources. The use of small (less than 5 kg) Depleted Uranium anti-tank penetrators has deflected public and media concern away the use of far larger weapons e.g. the GBU-24 and 28 that may contain 500-1500 kg of Uranium.

This secrecy and deception may have misled UN agencies and other research organisations to seriously under-estimate the potential humanitarian and environmental impacts of radiological weapons and the development of radiological warfare using "conventional" Uranium weapons made from nuclear waste since 1985, possibly even back to the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children"

At a hospital in Basra, Dr. Jenan Hassan revealed an on-going health catastrophe--a ten-fold increase in cancers and a twenty-fold increase in congenital deformities. The grisly realities of the cancer ward provide an appropriate alarm that could help to stop the use of these weapons unless it can be shown they will not harm civilians for generations to come.

America’s big dirty secret

DU is pyrophoric, burning on impact or if it is ignited, with a melting point of 1,132°C; it is much easier to process; and as nuclear waste, it is available free to arms manufacturers. Further, using it in a range of weapons significantly reduces the US nuclear waste storage problem.

Sometimes, you just have to destroy a country and its people to save it.

(Edited to add) Ghettofreak has a link to this very disturbing video. Watch it, but have a barf bag close at hand. What you'll see is truly sickening!

(update) Look everyone. Bigdocmcd has this link to a US goverment web site debunking all the myths those evil doctors in Afghanistan and Iraq are spreading about rising cancer rates and birth defects. Gulf War Syndrome? That's a myth too, so all you conspiracy theorists can just shut up now. Trust the government. Bigdocmcd and Big Brother always tell the truth!