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

[Karen Aram]

I’m sorry, I don’t know anyone by the name of Rokke, nor do I have any knowledge of statements made against you.

As to the article in relation to Depleted Uranium, I welcome information refuting the claims that the US used Depleted Uranium in Syria given the damage it does to people, children, newborns.

As to people being angry around the world over the use of DU, well maybe it’s about time, people especially here in the US are angry in respect to our use of bombs, guns, and terrorism killing people in the Middle East and North Africa in order to control their resources, even if we aren’t using DU.

On Feb 17, 2017, at 05:08, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com<mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com>> wrote:

The story is not well written.  It was written by an activist with AirWar.org<http://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target that A10s have flown against since the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 so all Combat Mix belts should have been withdrawn from ready ammunition inventory.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<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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> 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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