[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Check out this story on Foreign Policy

[Roger Helbig]

The story is not well written.  It was written by an activist with
AirWar.org and I have complained to Foreign Policy.   There are assertions
within the story that are not accurate.  The basic premise, that USAF fired
30mm kinetic energy penetrator rounds in Syria to destroy ISIS tank
trucks is most likely accurate.  That was most likely a mistake because if
you are firing at something, you want 100% of the rounds that you put on
target to be effective and mixing four DU rounds that do nothing more than
punch small holes in fuel tankers with one HEI (high explosive incendiary)
round that blows a much larger hole in the tanker with its explosive charge
and ignites the oil with the incendiary charge means that 80% of what you
hit the target with is not effective. I have asked CENTCOM if they are
investigating, but don't know if they will deign to give me a reply.  I
suspect that they had no purely incendiary round drums available to load to
the A10s flying these two missions.  To me, that seems very odd since DU
rounds have not been effective against any target that A10s have flown
against since the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 so all Combat Mix belts
should have been withdrawn from ready ammunition inventory.

DU was maligned by Saddam Hussein's propagandists which controlled all news
out of Iraq prior to the fall of Hussein's regime in 2003.  The basic lies
that they propagated have been bought into by anti-war activists around the
world.  There is no actual medical evidence to support any of the many
claims about cancers or birth defects.  On the contrary, intensive
monitoring of over a thousand veterans who actually were hit by DU in
friendly fire incidents has found no such medical effects.  Uranium is a
heavy metal.  As a result, just like other heavy metals such as lead, it is
toxic.  None of the claims made about DU actually discuss the true toxic
effects of an overdose of uranium.  A person once tried to kill himself by
taking such an overdose, but he was treated for uranium poisoning and
survived with still functioning kidneys, the first organ to fail due to
uranium poisoning.  Uranium is radioactive, but it is so weakly radioactive
that it has a half-life of 4.5 Billion years, the age of the Earth
calculated by using Uranium - Lead decay dating.

This article is achieving its intended effect - arousing people around the
world to anger, people who have no idea of what they are talking about.

Roger Helbig

independent researcher into DU, the lies about it and the liars who tell
them since your local friend Douglas Lind Rokke in Urbana personally lied
about me in 2004

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> >
> > The United States Used Depleted Uranium in Syria -
> http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-
> depleted-uranium-in-syria/
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