All the Iraqi equipment, a lot of U.S. equipment contain radiological components. When that equipment was blowing up a lot of radiological material was released into the environment. Exposing and contaminating. And then to top it all off we use uranium munitions known as depleted uranium. They’ve been used back in 1973 by the Israelis against the Egyptians. But, during Gulf War I, Desert Shield and Desert Storm, we took it to a totally new level. The use of radioactive materials on the battle field. Deliberately taking tons and tons, actually over 350 tons of solid radioactive materials and dispersed it across Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Taking our radioactive waste and throwing it in someone else’s backyard.
The history of depleted uranium goes back to a 1943 declassified memo known as the Groves Memorandum. In this memo depleted uranium is recommended for development as a poison gas warfare weapon. According to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which has declared depleted uranium illegal, approximately seventeen countries have purchased depleted uranium weaponry from the United States.
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