js7a's Journal: Here's an idea: Let's poison most of our troops!

Someone asked if there was proof that D.U. accumulated in the testes. Here it is: "A review of the effects of uranium and depleted uranium exposure on reproduction and fetal development," Toxicology and Industrial Health, 17(5-10): 180-191 (June 2001.)

This one is most interesting for the fact that they admit they haven't assayed the uranium combustion products. That doesn't stop them from showing how they can travel tens of kilometers: "Modeling the Dispersion of Depleted Uranium Aerosol," Health Physics 84(4):538-544 (April 2003.)

This is going to be with us for generations, messing with the genes of anyone descended from an exposed vet.

More in the directory.

Re:you're getting into scary territory

[tomhudson]

Worse comes to worse, he can always come to Canada as a political refugee.

Re:you're getting into scary territory

[sam_handelman]

Why would they bother? A pliant media will not report it.

"In other news, terrorists communicating via the internet are plotting to poison our troops using a depleted Uranium aerosol! Their ringleader, known only as 'js7a', is the target of a five-state FBI manhunt. Details at 11."

Re:you're getting into scary territory

[Safety Cap]

Their ringleader, known only as 'js7a' ~.

This just in, the infamous international terrorist j27a was captured by an Army Commando Unit trying to infiltrate the northern border between the US and Canada. Army spokesmen neither confirmed nor denied any such capture took place, but our terrorism expert, Dr. Likor, informed us that if indeed the government had j27a, he would be immediately transported to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This, in light of the Bush Administration's latest declaration t

Re:you're getting into scary territory

[js7a]

terrorists communicating via the internet are plotting to poison our troops using a depleted Uranium aerosol

The same terrorists who fought for years to keep tobacco legal. Can we charge them with RICO?

Re:you're getting into scary territory

[BandwidthHog]

I wouldn't worry. I'm sure they see this stuff as merely more 'junk science' to toss on the pile with the rest of that alarmist crap 'the left' keeps spewing out.