RE: Did "depleted uranium" munitions cause birth defects and cancer in Basra?
December 20, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Quote:Not necessarily "breaking news"
Sick American veterans have been trying to force the government to admit the culpability of DU for a long time.
You see, when you reach my age you tend to recall similar situations from several wars earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
Quote:While in Vietnam, the veterans were told not to worry, and were persuaded the chemical was harmless.[50] After returning home, Vietnam veterans began to suspect their ill health or the instances of their wives having miscarriages or children born with birth defects might be related to Agent Orange and the other toxic herbicides to which they were exposed in Vietnam.
Yeah....same shit - different decade.