Re: DU Story

["Phil Hypes" <laradcon@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Who says the US "basically controls Kuwait"?  If we control Kuwait, why 

isn't it a democracy?



As for the DU exposure, the last models I saw estimated that someone who 

entered a burning or smoldering tank shortly after a DU round hit would get 

a couple hundred millirem.  That's probably the maximally exposed 

individual.  Everyone else is going to get a lot less.  If those couple 

hundred millirem are enough to "make things worse" to any significant 

degree, we need to throw out the last few decades of health effects 

research, evacuate any inhabited area of more than a few thousand feet in 

elevation, and stop all medical use of radiation.  Thankfully, it's 

ridiculous to even wonder if doses of that magnitude are doing anything 

significant to those involved.



I'd gladly live in a house built of DU if it would get all the militant 

activists off this issue and let our soldiers use the best tools available 

to do their jobs of defending freedom.  The DU activists have done those 

soldiers a grave disservice by stirring up completely baseless fears.



In freedom, truth, and justice, whithout which peace is an illusion.



Phil Hypes

Los Alamos Radiation Consultants

laradcon@hotmail.com

505.920.9712



radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: DU Story

>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:34:36 -0500

>

>Dave,

>I don't argue with your position, nor do I argue with the positions

>stated by others that their were and are numerous toxics at work in Iraq

>in addition to DU. But I do think, from what I've reaad,  that exposure

>to DU has made things worse, at least for some people. Should there be

>similar effects in Kuwait? yes. Why aren't there reports? I don't know,

>except to point out that the US basically controls Kuwait.

>

>norm

>

>Daveandrewswxm1@aol.com wrote:



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