IRAQ - seven year bitch
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fredxmertzWARNING: Mertz on his soapbox.
In February of 2003, I went on my bike, with the tagalong (or trail-bike) with then 7 year old JP on it. down to the Univeristy of Oregon to join in a a peace march and protest against the invasion of Iraq, and against the war criminal, treasonist fascist liar Dick Cheney (No, W didn't actually do any of it, come on)
2/15/03
The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest was a coordinated day of protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from eight million to thirty million.
Some of the largest protests took place in Europe. The protest in Rome involved around 3 million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history. Opposition to the war was highest in the Middle East, although protests there were relatively small.[clarification needed] Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests, but small demonstrations attended mainly by foreign students were seen later.
As most of you probably know, Iraq has been a Nuclear war from the very beginning. Not nuclear bombs, but nuclear bullets, commonly known as DEPLETED URANIUM rounds.
Depleted uranium (DU) is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 (U-238). Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by mass. The byproduct of enrichment, called depleted uranium or DU, contains less than one third as much U-235 and U-234 as natural uranium. The external radiation dose from DU is about 60 percent of that from the same mass of natural uranium. DU is also found in reprocessed spent nuclear reactor fuel, but that kind can be distinguished from DU produced as a byproduct of uranium enrichment by the presence of U-236. In the past, DU has been called Q-metal, depletalloy, and D-38.
DU is useful because of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3. Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy and industrial radiography equipment, and containers used to transport radioactive materials. Military uses include defensive armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles.
The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.
Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because in addition to being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites or can be inhaled by civilians and military personnel. During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used, mostly in cities.
I was thinking about posting a youtube on DU here. but, dude. the pictures of Iraqi birth defects are NOT something I want to impose on anyone. This shit has got to stop. Our Hopey Changey president took more money from corporations during the 08 election than Palin and whats-his-name. Because they knew, the McCain Palin ticket was a joke, Obama was the onlly viable candidate, despite red state paranoia and Biblical weirdness of much of my country.
We've got to stop this Iraq/Afghanistan 'war on terror' BS and we've GOT TO STOP USING D/U BULLETS.
Now Obama is talking about an 8 billion dollar interest free loan to Georgia companies to build nuclear plants. You know the contractors have dollar signs in their eyes and holy shit, its national corn dog day....
In February of 2003, I went on my bike, with the tagalong (or trail-bike) with then 7 year old JP on it. down to the Univeristy of Oregon to join in a a peace march and protest against the invasion of Iraq, and against the war criminal, treasonist fascist liar Dick Cheney (No, W didn't actually do any of it, come on)
2/15/03
The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest was a coordinated day of protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from eight million to thirty million.
Some of the largest protests took place in Europe. The protest in Rome involved around 3 million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history. Opposition to the war was highest in the Middle East, although protests there were relatively small.[clarification needed] Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests, but small demonstrations attended mainly by foreign students were seen later.
As most of you probably know, Iraq has been a Nuclear war from the very beginning. Not nuclear bombs, but nuclear bullets, commonly known as DEPLETED URANIUM rounds.
Depleted uranium (DU) is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 (U-238). Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by mass. The byproduct of enrichment, called depleted uranium or DU, contains less than one third as much U-235 and U-234 as natural uranium. The external radiation dose from DU is about 60 percent of that from the same mass of natural uranium. DU is also found in reprocessed spent nuclear reactor fuel, but that kind can be distinguished from DU produced as a byproduct of uranium enrichment by the presence of U-236. In the past, DU has been called Q-metal, depletalloy, and D-38.
DU is useful because of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3. Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy and industrial radiography equipment, and containers used to transport radioactive materials. Military uses include defensive armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles.
The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.
Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because in addition to being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites or can be inhaled by civilians and military personnel. During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used, mostly in cities.
I was thinking about posting a youtube on DU here. but, dude. the pictures of Iraqi birth defects are NOT something I want to impose on anyone. This shit has got to stop. Our Hopey Changey president took more money from corporations during the 08 election than Palin and whats-his-name. Because they knew, the McCain Palin ticket was a joke, Obama was the onlly viable candidate, despite red state paranoia and Biblical weirdness of much of my country.
We've got to stop this Iraq/Afghanistan 'war on terror' BS and we've GOT TO STOP USING D/U BULLETS.
Now Obama is talking about an 8 billion dollar interest free loan to Georgia companies to build nuclear plants. You know the contractors have dollar signs in their eyes and holy shit, its national corn dog day....
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Date: 2010-03-21 09:16 pm (UTC)