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Irish_Dem

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14. I am sure the Iraqi women and children are relieved that the US only shelled them with depleted uranium.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 25, 2024, 06:24 PM

Dec 25

Depleted uranium (DU) is a chemotoxic and radiotoxic heavy metal and is classified by the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a carcinogen.

The US and UK militaries used DU weapons in Iraq during the First Gulf War in 1991 and the Iraq War starting in 2003.
It is estimated that 170 to 1,700 metric tons of the toxic metal were disperse across Iraq.

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