Monday, November 21, 2005

Depleted Uranium Contaminated Tanks in the US

SanFranBayView: UA taxpayers paid to ship the Abrams tanks to Iraq and to return them for disposal or re-building in the US. The tanks are 12 ft wide and weigh 70 tons, or 140,000 lbs. And across the plains of Kansas, these destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks are perched on railroad flatcars; just sitting there and contaminating the KS environment w/depleted uranium, and they will be radioactive forever. From America to Iraq and back, these giant radioactive hulks can only sicken and kill Americans. On top of the sheer, unrelenting stupidity of playing w/ radiation w/unsuspecting soldiers, now the Neo-Cons are involving everyday citizens in their radiation madness. The Pentagon can't even follow simple radiation hazard instructions: Dr Doug Rokke is the Pentagon's former dir of the Army DU Project, & he said this about the radioactive tanks in KS: "The radioactive damaged Abrams tanks that were left unsecured on a KS railroad track are a perfect example of exactly how not to ship damaged radioactive equipment and how not to protect our Army's Abrams tanks from possible sabotage and compromise of classified battle systems." Oh yeah... BushCo has certainly made us all safer. And as far as KS goes, they are 1 of the reddest of the Red States AND they are waging an "intelligent design" war against science. Guess when their residents start popping up w/rare cancers due to DU exposure, they might rethink loving Bush and hating science, huh? Oh who the fuck am I kidding? They'll just pray for the cancer to *poof*!.. miraculously go away.
Posted by Tina :: 12:23 AM :: 2 Comments:

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