You will not hear anything about this from the American propaganda networks, but the Canadian Globe & Mail covered it on February 17th in an article titled "The Weapon We Gave Iraq," and the British Mirror just published, on March 26th, another article on the subject titled "Six Days of Shame."

As the Globe & Mail reported; "Depleted uranium is the waste byproduct of nuclear reactors. In the 1980s, U.S. researchers recognized that the material's density gave it tremendous armour-piercing potential. Not only can shells coated with depleted uranium punch through layers of hardened steel, they ignite on impact, creating a fiery burst of radioactive particles inside an enemy armored vehicle. It is this 'aerosol' that most experts believe causes the variety of long-term health problems associated with gulf war syndrome."

Embedded American journalists have been showing us examples of the 7th "Calgary" passing relics of destroyed Iraqi tanks from the first war, and close-ups of holes punched through their armor, still standing in the desert close to Kuwait as our troops advance towards Baghdad. It was the 7th cavalry that General Custer led into Little Big Horn.

The Iraqis have a name for this area where their troops were chased out of Kuwait and made a final stand. It's called the "Highway of Death" and the Iraqi people have been dealing with it for more than a decade mostly by trying to avoid the area.

The radiation particles left behind, particles that when breathed lodge in the lymph nodes and attack the human immune system, have an estimated half-life of 200 million years.

Imagine how much of this stuff is being kicked up by the recent sandstorms. Do you think our guys go through some sort of shower to wash off residue before they take a break along this roadway of death?

Obviously, we've gone far beyond the "agent orange" defoliants used in the jungles of Viet Nam. There has even been mention elsewhere of American tanks coated with DU as a new form of armor although it seems no one knows the effect of this substance when it's inert. That's a question that might be asked of the American labs or factories coating tanks and projectiles with depleted uranium.

Reminiscent of the way the U.S. refused to endorse a ban on land mines, the Globe & Mail reports further; "Despite increasing evidence linking DU to degenerative health disorders, the British and U.S. militaries steadfastly refuse to suspend their use of such weapons. On Aug.16, 2002, at the annual UN Human Rights Convention, a motion was tabled to ban the use of depleted uranium munitions until a full-scale medical survey could be conducted. The only two countries to vote against the motion were Britain and the United States."

Once we've overwhelmed Iraq, watch for the "drop gun" exposure of weapons of mass destruction that the inspectors couldn't find and the possibility of blaming Iraq for illnesses developing in our soldiers.

Here's another bit of information supplied by Britain's Mirror; "As of last July, $5.4 billion worth of humanitarian supplies, approved by the UN and paid for by the Iraqi government, were blocked by Washington, with the Blair government's approval. The former assistant secretary general of the UN, Denis Halliday, who was sent to Iraq to set up the 'oil for food programme', described the effects of the embargo as 'nothing less than genocide'. Similar words have been used by his successor, Hans Von Sponeck."

The article also quotes Tony Blair as saying; "400,000 Iraqi children had died in the past five years from malnutrition and related causes."

Today, we are telling the people of Iraq that tons of humanitarian supplies are in Kuwait waiting to be delivered. All they have to do is surrender or turn over Saddam Hussein.

A republican president is leading the American Republic in an invasion of the Republic of Iraq—in order to establish a democracy.