CPP Supports Depleted Uranium Weapons Production

When used as a weapon, in ammunition that is spread indiscriminately over country-sides, this radioactive chemical will be a part of the atmosphere for literally billions of years. It has been estimated that 800 tons of Depleted Uranium has been used in Afghanistan, which is the radioactive equivalent of roughly 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. Rain captures the dust clouds, which then contaminates ground water and food sources, making great swaths of land toxic and uninhabitable. Studies have shown that people living in these areas — inhaling the substance, drinking contaminated water, and eating food grown in contaminated soil — will quickly reach both acute and chronic exposure levels, which can trigger a vast array of health issues, including mutations, reproductive defects and extremely high cancer rates. In Iraq, doctors at a hospital in Basra, where depleted uranium weapons were used frequently in the first Gulf War (and are being used again now), have noticed an alarming trend in the health and wellness of the children in the area. Charting incidents of children’s illness between 1990 and 2001 shows an incidence increase of 426 per cent for general malignancies, 366 per cent for leukemias and an over 600 per cent increase in birth defects. This is not a scorched earth policy; it is a toxic earth policy. Military forces are not only destroying life, but creating an environment that is inhospitable to life for billions of years to come. http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6750&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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