Re: DU

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I am confused.  Do you consider DU to be radiological

weapons?  If so, then lead bullets are chemical

weapons.



--- "Rick Haaker, CHP, CIH" <radpro@aqsafety.com>

wrote:

> 

> 

> DU ordinance does seem to leave us in an

> inconsistent and cynical position.

> 

> Our leaders derive great benefit from stirring up

> fear of terrorism in our 

> population and from beating the drum about

> terrorists detonating a "dirty 

> bomb." The degree of fear mongering is like nothing

> I have ever seen 

> before. All the while we are about as likely to die

> from being struck by 

> lightening as dying in a terrorist attack.  We use

> large numbers of our own 

> dirty DU weapons and then claim that they are

> harmless, and not a 

> radiological weapon at all.

> 

> 



=====

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." 



Dwight D. Eisenhower  



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



__________________________________

Do you Yahoo!?

Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.

You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/