Isn't Depleted Uranium use an environmental catastrophy?

Question

I believe it to be. What do you think? Please give evidence and sources.

http://gideontrust.org/Page2.html

Answer 1

actually, nature manages pretty well with low level radiation; if you can put up with the mutations and shortened lives, so do people.

sorry, that was cruel. thousands of soldiers and iraqi civilians have been affected. i used to know an english veteran of the first war, he was tortured by the idea he could never have kids because they would be mutants, like quite a few born to women who were pregnant in the zone. actually, his future kids would have been more likely to get leukemia rather than obvious mutations.

Answer 2

Maybe Iraqi leadership should not have acted like they had, and were willing to use--as they had done in the past, WMD's.

Now it's Iran's turn.

We'll be ready to disarm them too.

Answer 3

No - If it's depleted, then it isn't radioactive.  See Inert.

Answer 4

I thought Saddam's information minister had retired when Saddam left office. I see he's still in business on yahoo answers.

depleted uranium(U238) is no more radioactive than lead.