On 27/04/2005 5:11 PM, Dan wrote:
In article ,
clvrmnky wrote:


On 27/04/2005 3:29 PM, Dan wrote:

In article ,
Al Patrick wrote:


http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin...cgi?read=62203

CAUTION! The picture is not pleasant.

The "picture" has nothing to do with "troops" - it's showing birth
defects - which are not shown to be even remotely connected with
"DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS" - whatever *those* are.


Indeed, the "picture" might have little to do with depleted uranium
shell casings. This does not change the fact that such ordnance is
known to cause all sorts of health problems in soldiers as well as the
people who collect the casings months or years after hostilities end.

The stuff is poison, and pretending otherwise is disingenuous, at best.


So you are using an unrelated, possibly doctored picture to "illustrate"
how "DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS" are "killing our troops".

I'm doing nothing of the sort. I am not the OP, and I specifically said
the embedded image on that linked page had little to do with the subject
of the original post. Go back and reread my reply.

It's quoted, above.

One has nothing to do with the other. Kind of like using forged
documents in a phony story about President Bush in the last election.
Hence my "CBS News" reference.

I "got" your reference. I never made any assertion that these two
things had anything to do with each-other. You expressed incredulity at
"depleted uranium weapons." I pointed out that the dangers of using
depleted uranium in weapons systems is harming people right now,
including the soldiers using them.

I pointed out that commercial propaganda machines usually like to brand
their "news" in a more slick, professional manner so we are more likely
to accept it as fact. I trotted out the tired old CBS and Fox as
examples of this. This web page is pure agitprop, and is easily dismissed.

Try not to think of every reply as some sort of argument. This is a
threaded discussion of sorts. I'm merely running with the ball, as they
say.