Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

[Jeffrey Miller]

Russell Chapman wrote:
> 
> The Fool wrote:
> 
> > The U.S. did in fact coat most of the munitions used in the Iraqi
> > conflict with depleted uranium.  But that a different argument about
> > morality...
> 
> Where's the morality issue in depleted uranium? It's heavy enough that
> artillery rounds go through armour instead of exploding on the surface, but
> it is barely radioactive. Of all the weaponry deployed on the modern
> battlefield, something that is specifically aimed at destroying tanks and
> other armoured vehicles is positively angelic.

Last time I checked, there's still an open issue about the toxicity of
the dust/particles produced during the use/firing/destruction of said
rounds.

-j-