Many soldiers have gotten sick in Iraq and the cause is believed to be depleted uranium or DU. DU is used for things like 25mm rounds that the Bradley’s (what I drove in the Army) and tanks use for some of their munitions. With DU they can pierce the shit out of another tank with just about any type of armor. This sounds great but we left a bunch of shit lying around and solders are getting sick which sucks but what sucks worse is that they aren’t doing anything about it yet. I say yet because this is exactly how the Army and government as a whole operate.

First they deny! They act like they did nothing wrong and that the soldiers are just cry babies. After enough people get sick and sue they finally admit they did something wrong. After they admit guilt and give the soldiers some cash to shut up they forget any lessons learned. Lather, rinse and repeat!

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