jamiroguy1

I'll be there...if I'm thinking or who I think you're thinking.

Al Jazeera is airing video of the damage. http://www.aljazeera.net/showMedia.asp?item_No=217447&videoPath=&oldMediaItURL=1_217447

Tell that to the soldiers that have tested positive for uranium poisoning returning from iraq, you moron.

Well if bombing mosques is getting the job done, we need to get to more bombing of mosques then and hurry up and end this.

This, quite possibly, is the most rediculous thing you've ever posted. It not only has uranium in the name...IT CONTAINS URANIUM, YOU FUCKING CLOWN!!!! I give up, you're hopeless.

and predictably so.

In lieu of the week's past events between the closing of the a popular shi'ite newspaper, the bombing of mosques, capturing of close adviser of radical clerics, seizing of cities, etc...Do you feel the Bush Administration's plan for Iraq is working?

Iraq is in shambles. Bombing mosques and killing/capturing clerics isn't the answer. This is a sad day. I expect it to get even worse.

This post is fucking hilarious. Apparently, you totally ignore the fact that depleted uranium produces radioactive dust. Explain to me how the fuck this isn't toxic. Explain to me to how the small group of soldiers that were tested, tested positive for uranium exposure. I'm looking at this objectively but when soldiers are testing positve for uranium exposure your arguement means shit. Oh, and if you meant to say "the pot calling the kettle black" you're fucking retarded. Find one example, of where I'm avoiding the topic shit head? I always, stay on the topic of the thread. You fucking clowns keep saying that DU isn't harmful to humans but I've shown examples of how it is and there is quite a bit more out there. So who the fuck is ignoring the facts, jerkoff? Get a life why don't you? Fucking pentagon puppets.

Cintron should read this again. Clueless.

Chill out retard. What the fuck are you so pissed about, gay boy? You obviously can't argue the issue if you get pissed when someone asked you questions about it. It's ok to admit that depleted uranium is harmful to humans, fuck nut.

Ok, DU is not toxic. I got it. Do you mind show me the sources where you got your information because the international depleted uraniun study team has found otherwise: DU is a highly toxic heavy metal with a radioactive half-life of four and one-half billion years. DU has accumulated in enormous quantities since the dawn of the nuclear age. Despite the name "Depleted" Uranium, DU has 60% the radioactivity of Natural Uranium, which is pure uranium. Another question, do you actually think that US soldiers in Iraq and Iraqi civilians aren't inhaling or have inhaled the radiactive dust left from du shells whether in Gulf War I or Gulf War II?

Correction. These are classified as nuclear weapons, no?

So basically what your saying is every soldier that was in a tank and fired a shell will be exposed to depleted uranium. Hm.. Sounds safe to me.

The government isn't testing everyone for depleted uranium exposure and the soldiers are suffering.

Poisoned? Shocking report reveals local troops may be victims of america's high-tech weapons By JUAN GONZALEZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Army Sgt. Hector Vega at his Bronx home. Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found. They are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military Police, who say they have been battling persistent physical ailments that began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah. "I got sick instantly in June," said Staff Sgt. Ray Ramos, a Brooklyn housing cop. "My health kept going downhill with daily headaches, constant numbness in my hands and rashes on my stomach." A nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested nine soldiers from the company says that four "almost certainly" inhaled radioactive dust from exploded American shells manufactured with depleted uranium. Laboratory tests conducted at the request of The News revealed traces of two manmade forms of uranium in urine samples from four of the soldiers. If so, the men - Sgt. Hector Vega, Sgt. Ray Ramos, Sgt. Agustin Matos and Cpl. Anthony Yonnone - are the first confirmed cases of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the current Iraq conflict. Augustin Matos with his daughter Samantha The 442nd, made up for the most part of New York cops, firefighters and correction officers, is based in Orangeburg, Rockland County. Dispatched to Iraq last Easter, the unit's members have been providing guard duty for convoys, running jails and training Iraqi police. The entire company is due to return home later this month. "These are amazing results, especially since these soldiers were military police not exposed to the heat of battle," said Dr. Asaf Duracovic, who examined the G.I.s and performed the testing that was funded by The News. "Other American soldiers who were in combat must have more depleted uranium exposure," said Duracovic, a colonel in the Army Reserves who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. While working at a military hospital in Delaware, he was one of the first doctors to discover unusual radiation levels in Gulf War veterans. He has since become a leading critic of the use of depleted uranium in warfare. Depleted uranium, a waste product of the uranium enrichment process, has been used by the U.S. and British military for more than 15 years in some artillery shells and as armor plating for tanks. It is twice as heavy as lead. Because of its density, "It is the superior heavy metal for armor to protect tanks and to penetrate armor," Pentagon spokesman Michael Kilpatrick said. The Army and Air Force fired at least 127 tons of depleted uranium shells in Iraq last year, Kilpatrick said. No figures have yet been released for how much the Marines fired. Kilpatrick said about 1,000 G.I.s back from the war have been tested by the Pentagon for depleted uranium and only three have come up positive - all as a result of shrapnel from DU shells. But the test results for the New York guardsmen - four of nine positives for DU - suggest the potential for more extensive radiation exposure among coalition troops and Iraqi civilians. Several Army studies in recent years have concluded that the low-level radiation emitted when shells containing DU explode poses no significant dangers. But some independent scientists and a few of the _Army's own reports indicate otherwise. As a result, depleted uranium weapons have sparked increasing controversy around the world. In January 2003, the _European Parliament called for a moratorium on their use after reports of an unusual number of leukemia deaths among Italian soldiers who served in Kosovo, where DU weapons were used. Full article http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html

Ok.. changing it up now.

I love these Guiness Promo parties... Who's going? I'll be there on 4/28.

Chill out, Bob. No one is shitting on "your" country.

Agreed it's a crazy world we're living in today but hasn't it always been?

Diffierent celebrities support both sides.

Exactly. Only morons type in all caps.

Agreed.

Spread of Bin Laden Ideology Cited Iraq Invasion Said To Alter Dynamics Of Local Militants By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 4, 2004; Page A13 The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has accelerated the spread of Osama bin Laden's anti-Americanism among once local Islamic militant movements, increasing danger to the United States as the al Qaeda network is becoming less able to mount attacks, according to senior intelligence officials at the CIA and State Department. At the same time, the Sunni Triangle has become a training ground for foreign Islamic jihadists who are slipping into Iraq to join former Saddam Hussein loyalists to test themselves against U.S. and coalition forces, these officials say. Islamic militant organizations in places such as North Africa and Southeast Asia, which were previously focused on changing their local country leadership, "have been caught by bin Laden's vision, and poisoned by it . . . they will now look at the U.S., Israel and the Saudis as targets," a senior intelligence official said last week. "That is one manifestation of how bin Laden's views are expanding well beyond Iraq," he said. J. Cofer Black, the State Department coordinator for counterterrorism and a former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, gave the same message to a House International Relations subcommittee last Thursday, saying that bin Laden's "virulent anti-American rhetoric . . . has been picked up by a number of Islamic extremist movements which exist around the globe." Full article http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48425-2004Apr3?language=printer