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What are weapons of mass destruction? Many people would like to say they're weapons that can kill a large number of people at one time, like a bomb. But when the term is used, it is generally accepted to be a certain kind of weapon. Conventional weapons are ones that cause injury by exploding and sending shrapnel or bullets into one's body. They go off, and they are finished. Weapons of mass destruction are ones that cause harm in an unconventional manner such as poison gas or nuclear radiation.
The worst kind of WMDs are the ones that leave a lasting effect on those is does not kill. Conventional weapons cause permanent effects, but the wounds heal. Some weapons cause illness that can linger and kill many years later. I feel this sort of warfare is unconscionable.
8. Depleted Uranium Weapons:
"More than 9,600 of the relatively young Operation Desert Storm veterans have died since serving in Iraq, a statistical anomaly," wrote Dan Kapelovitz, the reporter who interviewed Picou. Of those still living, more than a third--upward of 236,000--have filed Gulf War Syndrome-related claims with the Veteran's Administration.
Research overwhelmingly suggests these ailments and deaths were caused by depleted uranium.
In Iraq incidences of cancer, childhood leukemia and rare mutations in newborns have skyrocketed.
"In effect, George Bush Sr. used weapons of mass destruction on his own people," Kapelovitz continued.
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The worst kind of WMDs are the ones that leave a lasting effect on those is does not kill. Conventional weapons cause permanent effects, but the wounds heal. Some weapons cause illness that can linger and kill many years later. I feel this sort of warfare is unconscionable.
8. Depleted Uranium Weapons:
"More than 9,600 of the relatively young Operation Desert Storm veterans have died since serving in Iraq, a statistical anomaly," wrote Dan Kapelovitz, the reporter who interviewed Picou. Of those still living, more than a third--upward of 236,000--have filed Gulf War Syndrome-related claims with the Veteran's Administration.
Research overwhelmingly suggests these ailments and deaths were caused by depleted uranium.
In Iraq incidences of cancer, childhood leukemia and rare mutations in newborns have skyrocketed.
"In effect, George Bush Sr. used weapons of mass destruction on his own people," Kapelovitz continued.
see also
