while we are in the sad position of counting up the corpses and the lives, depleted, four soldiers from the
NY National Guard have been battling persistent ailments since their deployment. The soldiers were contaminated by breathing radioactive dust from depleted uranium shells. They say DU is so safe you can eat it. It's a half truth. Yes you can eat it but not because it is safe, but, because you poop it out before it has time to do damage. When the shells explode they make a fine dust that bonds to ceramic because of the heat. The radioactive particulate matter lodges deep in the lung, where it stays eventually causing cancer, radiation sickness. Countless will be depleted as the wind carries the dust, as it mixes with topsoil and is turned by farmers. Low grade nuclear war. It happened in Kosovo, in Bosnia, in Gulf War 1 and now how many and how much more will we be depleted?