[quote]orion wrote:
DrSkeptix wrote:
orion wrote:
DrSkeptix wrote:
orion wrote:
Just in case these pictures do not make it as long as your more patriotic ones you can find them here :
American heroes, just doing their job.
Uh…no.
I do not know what the first photo shows.
I am not fetologist, but the other photos show meningoencephalocole and other neural tube defects, and fetal hydrops and cretinism. It is far more likely that the causes are perinatal deficiencies of B vitamins and folic acid, and iodine, respectively; both conditions are unfortunately very common in rural Afghanistan.
I do know a bit about radiation exposure; I believe it is called depleted uranium for a reason. Someone else may know if there is a risk of gamma emission, but I would doubt it–too risky to store and handle. Alpha and beta irradiation is not penetrant to the fetus, and single or multiple episodes of radiation do not cause the fetal monsters demonstrated here.
So, orion, if you were taken in by this Jihadist propaganda, you are a willing believer in nonsense, because it is a lie that serves your chronic refractory Anti-Americansism; or, like some of the tikes here, cretinism is also common in semi-rural Austria.
So you do not know really and those kids just happen to be born there and depleted ammunition could never pose a threat when it disintegrates after hitting a target.
So you are talking out of your ass really?
Human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in the offspring of persons exposed to DU.[11] A 2001 study of 15,000 February 1991 U.S. Gulf War combat veterans and 15,000 control veterans found that the Gulf War veterans were 1.8 (fathers) to 2.8 (mothers) times more likely to have children with birth defects.[83] After examination of children’s medical records two years later, the birth defect rate increased by more than 20%:
"Dr. Kang found that male Gulf War veterans reported having infants with likely birth defects at twice the rate of non-veterans. Furthermore, female Gulf War veterans were almost three times more likely to report children with birth defects than their non-Gulf counterparts. The numbers changed somewhat with medical records verification. However, Dr. Kang and his colleagues concluded that the risk of birth defects in children of deployed male veterans still was about 2.2 times that of non-deployed veterans."[84]
In early 2004, the UK Pensions Appeal Tribunal Service attributed birth defect claims from a February 1991 Gulf War combat veteran to depleted uranium poisoning.[85][86] Children of British soldiers who fought in wars in which depleted uranium ammunition was used are at greater risk of suffering genetic diseases such as congenital malformations, commonly called “birth defects,” passed on by their fathers. In a study of U.K. troops, “Overall, the risk of any malformation among pregnancies reported by men was 50% higher in Gulf War Veterans (GWV) compared with Non-GWVs.”[87]
Your soldiers beg to differ.
I would bet I am a damn sight better acquainted with obstetrics and embryology than you will ever be.
If there is someone talking out his ass, it is you; so much so that it is hoarse from the operatic presentation to which it is constantly subjected.
These photos shows absolutely nothing that is directly connected to depleted uranium; exccept for the first photo, all the others represent fairly common fetal abnormalities with ready explanations.
“…a veteran.” This is it? That is your cited evidence One pension board–perhaps for political reaasons, and with no science–allowed the guy a break? Sad and ridiculous.
Everything else you have cited is simply unverifiable nonsense. The sources you have sited–with which I am familiar–cannot in any fashion connect, for example, Gulf War syndrome to U238. Period. So many things have implicated, it is hard to figure out anything.
So you have been taken in, eagerly so, by heart-breaking photos. That you persist in your ignorance is a stunning testament to your small-mindedness.
I actually had put up some pictures of kids that were just plain killed by US soldiers, with perfectly normal bombs so these posts are missing.
While I think that the deformed children popping up everywhere the US waged war are interesting they are more or less a side show
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Jihadis fete the fetid fetus
But know that lies cannot defeat us:
The truth trumpets, washed in times’ tincture.
When orion speaks, it is through his anal sphincter.
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