At 09:56 AM 9/26/01, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:33 AM >Subject: Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech > > > > > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Come on now, Jeroen, are you really so easily fooled? > > > > > > > > > > I'm beginning to think that if someone started telling you that the > > US > > > > puts > > > > > Iraqi children in their soup, we'd be hearing about that criticism > > on > > > > the > > > > > Brin List in short order....... > > > > > > > > > > > > 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... > > > > > > > > > > There are foods that are about as radioactive, maybe more, than > > depleted > > > uranium. > > > > Like Iraqi children. Yum, yum. > > > >No, do you know what food is more radioactive? Hint, we went to Krogers (a >local food store) to buy a source to test our natural gamma tool. That >source is also used by folks on low sodium diets.
Uh . . .KCl, perhaps? > > Statistically the cancer rate in those area went up 900%. > > > >Could you please cite a scientific study of that. I'd like to see it, too. >If the radiation in >depleted uranium were to cause cancer at that rate, then people couldn't >live in Aberdeen. As Gautam said, depleted uranium is used for its >density. > >Dan M. IIRC, enough heat is generated by friction when a DU projectile penetrates thick armor to ignite the DU, and the uranium oxide dust thus produced is toxic if breathed in sufficient quantity. -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
