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Title: Metal of Dishonor: How Depleted Uranium Penetrates Steel, Radiates People and Contaminates the Environment by Helen Caldicott, Michio Kaku, Jay Gould, Ramsey Clark ISBN: 0-9656916-0-8 Publisher: International Action Center Pub. Date: 28 September, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Caldicott needs a dose of reality
Comment: In this book Caldicott messages truths to match her left wing leanings. If you are to the far left you will love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deirdre
Comment: This book is avaliable on www.leftbooks.com
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Summary: A Question of Intent
Comment: There is still some debate in the scientific community as to whther there are indeed secondary effects to the use of depleted uranium shells on the battlefield. One recent study claims that the levels of radiation in DU projectiles cannot be differentiated from that of the natural background. Some have claimed that the vaporization of DU makes the particles more likely to be inhaled, though this is also a matter of debate.
None of this scientific debate is of importance to Caldicott, who blames DU projectiles for every possible illness found on and off the battlefield, including the famous Gulf War Syndrome. Gulf War Syndrome has in fact been widely studied, and is generally believed to be a group of illnesses related to chemical weapons, oil fires and possibly innoculations; this is apparantly not important to Caldicott and her coauthors, who would rather use questionable inferences in order to find the US armed forces guilty of heinous crimes.
I try to have an open mind about this debate, and others like it, but I do admit to having a certain amount of bias when it comes to Helen Caldicott. She was always there to attack the US for its tactics and policies during the Cold War and thereafter, but was never heard to speak ill of the Soviet biological warfare program, Saddam's aggression or that of a dozen other tyrants and mass murderers.
One fact that Caldicott does not consider is this: Modern DU weapons and the systems that use them have greatly increased the range, accuracy and leathality of antitank weapons, which translates into far fewer casulties for those using them, and fewer civilian deaths from indiscriminate bombing. War is and will always be an ugly thing, but modern war is at least more sparing of non-combatants than it has been in centuries.
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Title: The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin ISBN: 1566565529 Publisher: Interlink Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ISBN: 1585422762 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0670032646 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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