By Dave Lindorff, Couterpunch, Oct 20, 2009
The horrors of the US Agent Orange campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors of the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it used much more extensively, and in more urban, populated areas, in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War.
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Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are No Joke
By Dave Lindorff, Couterpunch, Oct 20, 2009
The horrors of the US Agent Orange campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors of the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it used much more extensively, and in more urban, populated areas, in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War.
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Tags: 1991 Gulf War, Afghanistan, depleted uranium, depleted uranium weapons, Iraq, United States, US Agent Orange campaign, Vietnam
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