I like people that cut straight to the heart of a complicated subject and get it right with no frills!!! Right on Raina

http://www.iht.com/articles/537688.html

utahtex, paul krugman has you pegged.

If you want to think the US (read donald rumsfield) involvement in iraq in the 1980s was not a big deal, that is your view. I can take the opposite view and not be deceiving myself.

Also, how to you "justify" the babies being born with severe deformities
because of DU? Is it their moms fault for getting pregnant in iraq?

Pretty misleading and I don't think you're facts are entirely in line.

I don't really think you know anything about DU ammunition. I have worked with it extensively in the Navy before we switched over to tungsten ammo for the Mk15 Phalanx Close In Weapon System.

Please show me these case studies where fired DU ammunition has been the direct link in birth defects in Iraq.

ANy link i gave would be scoffed at...but...what are your theories as to why there are so many birth defects and why so many of the gulf war vets are on some form of disability(per veterens affairs)? If there are other reasons i would like to know.

weapons released by Saddam, the fumes from the burning oil wells, or the host of other reasons listed by any reputable scientific examination of this problem and the factors that led to it, could it?

Nah.

Catz

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I'm always fascinated when people can just throw around a statement like this with no proof to back it up. I am aware that many are blaming DU for birth defects, but I have seen absolutley no evidence presented that the blame is justified. So far, it is merely a matter of assumptions, people parroting those assumptions, and others accepting them blindly as "truth".

This is much like what Rachel Carson started when she jumped to the wrong conclusion about DDT in the early 60's. What happened? First hysteria, followed by a world-wide ban on a cheap, safe and effective pesticide, resulting in millions of preventable Malaria deaths in Africa - and it's still happening today.
http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm

What you are suggesting here is a catch 22. So if we weren't there they wouldn't be pulling the trigger, but if they weren't pulling the trigger we could get out of there? How about we shouldn't have been there in the first place to begin this cycle of events?

Very nice redirect to lay the burden of proof on me when it was, in fact, you that made the insane accusation in the first place...

"Bush didn't pull the trigger or lob the grenade."

THEN or NOW, I agree

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