[Peace-discuss] US using uranium WMDs in Iraq ...

[Ra Ravishankar]

http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/mar/31iraq3.htm
The United States and the United Kingdom, which invaded Iraq ostensibly to
strip that country of its weapons of mass destruction, now stand accused
of using some of the worst WMDs to overcome the fierce resistance an army,
weakened by 12 years of United Nations sanctions, is putting up ...

Also see
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/892606.asp
... In the opening battle, the tank unit fired two 120 mm high velocity
depleted uranium rounds straight down the main road, creating a powerful
vacuum that literally sucked guerrillas out from their hideaways into the
street, where they were shot down by small arms fire or run over by the
tanks ...

2. http://www.sundayherald.com/32522
BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU)
shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations
resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass
destruction ...

[Doug] Rokke said: 'There is a moral point to be made here. This war was
about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we are
using weapons of mass destruction ourselves.' He added: 'Such
double-standards are repellent.' ...

3. http://www.balochistanpost.com/item.asp?ID=3629
... Interview of the US soldier who fired these shells, perhaps for the
first time in Al Kifl, were carried [in the U.S press] as a hero who has
done some great job for the humanity ...