Depleted uranium

describes it incompletely

leading you to believe

its radioactivity

has somehow been drained

of its lethal divinity

 

While D.U. will no longer

sustain a fission reaction

s-

    s-

        s-

            s-

                s-

                    s-

                        BOOM!!!

 

when fired as ammunition

from aircraft Gatling guns

in anti-tank shells,

cruise missiles and

misnamed "smart" bombs,

the heavy metal burns

and burning through

what it hits some of it

va-a-a-a-a-porizes-s-s-s-s

releasing radioactive

DU dust particles

into the air where they

penetrate articles like

protective masks.

 

       Breathe!

 

They lodge in your lungs.

 

        Swallow.

 

Invite! them into your blood,

gonads, marrow and kidneys.

In the water, air and earth

this radioactivity

       lies patiently waiting

              actively creating...

 

       !!!CANCER!!!

 

Radioactive U-238 dust

has a half-life of 4 point 5

BILLION years, plus

it appears to have caused

Gulf War and Balkan Syndromes

and, in Iraq, the death of

1 point 5 million.

 

Though international law has banned

these poisonous smoking guns,

one country uses and sells them

defying rational conventions.

 

In DU weapons the U.S.A.

is Number One!

           Number One!

            Number One!!!

 

         DUH?!!