Few notes I would like to addon..

Gulf war syndrome (I thought) was mostly attributed to the many biochemical cocktails injected on the western soldiers as a test.
Note that the during the Gulf War there were other soldiers too ie, Arabic, asian etc. but they were left out hmmmm...

Yes the count of DU rounds fired is right ...about a million rounds!! of DU were fired to contaminate the southern oil fields.
Iraq has protested formally many times to te UN agencies over the past 10 years that their oil workers are miscarrying at alarming rates and when the preganancies go through there are high amounts of mutations.

The pigmedia was even forced to give publicity to this slowly after Al-Jazeerah made it very clear in the late 90s. No awards for the arab journalists invovled!

And where does Du come from?
IS it not that most of the DU is the waste product from nuclear reactors like Sellfield that are at the hub of our wasteful way of life. Since the Irish protested at the practice of burying Nuclear waste in the Irsih sea, dumping it in Iraq seems to be the solution. Now what solution they will come up with?

Also note that the UK forces painfully fund time to point out that they fired DU shells after the first week when encountering minimal resistance.
I *think* this is an attempt to explain away the large contamination problems that will be highlighted once Iraq becomes more open for independent investigations.

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