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  • Terrifying

    I really hope Aljazeera is being biased and totally propagandist on this one.
    Freedom Doesn't March.

    -I.

  • #2
    Take a wild guess.
    ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
    ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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    • #3
      Its more fair and balanced than FOX.
      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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      • #4
        ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
        ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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        • #5
          BBC, News, BBC News, news online, world, uk, international, foreign, british, online, service
          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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          • #6
            Discusting.

            But am I surprised, no.


            Spec.
            -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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            • #7
              it was really clever keeping DU out of the thread title, to avoid having folks who actually have technical knowledge of DU show up.
              "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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              • #8
                Read the first part and got to this:

                The WMD in question is depleted uranium (DU).
                So the DU issue rides again. As for the article, well, I stopped reading there. Not because I think DU is harmless (I actually think the long-term health effects require serious study), but rather due to the clear slant of the article. I couldn't take it seriously.

                -Arrian
                grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                • #9
                  This is one instance where Al Jazeera has a point... they are the Islamic World's FOX though... no doubt about that.

                  BTW, the use of depleted uranium is considered use of a weapon of mass destruction by the UN.
                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #10
                    There's nothing new about this. Depleted Uranium has been used since GW I and also has been used in Kosovo. You don't have to read Aljazeera for knowing that. I' d even rate it as common knowledge.
                    And, DU doesn't only harm it's targets, but also the coalition soldiers. It harms virtually everyone who spends a longer time there.
                    justice is might

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                    • #11
                      BTW, the use of depleted uranium is considered use of a weapon of mass destruction by the UN.
                      Which is rather silly.

                      -Arrian
                      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                      • #12
                        Well bear in mind that Uranium itself it incredibly toxic.
                        Speaking of Erith:

                        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                        • #13
                          I think the military's claims about the relative harmlessness of DU to be unlikely, I'll say that. At the end of the day, the Army doesn't seem to really give a **** what the battlefield ends up like after they've fought the battle. Which isn't good.

                          But DU, whatever you may think about it (use it, don't use it, use it in only certain situations), is certainly not a WMD as we know them.

                          -Arrian
                          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Arrian


                            Which is rather silly.

                            -Arrian
                            WHy don't you strap some of those rounds next to your nutsack for a while and tell me what you think then.
                            To us, it is the BEAST.

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                            • #15
                              Yeah, it is not that radioactive. But when fired at such high velocities would form a dust. It would be like breathing in lead dust, not very good for you...
                              Speaking of Erith:

                              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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