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Depleted, it is NOT!

by Open-Publishing - Monday 30 May 2005
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Nuclear Wars and conflicts USA

George Lakoff, guru of "reframing." Lakoff suggested
relabeling the issue: "radioactive weaponry". The name
"depleted uranium" was carefully selected to imply
harmlessness. "Radioactive weaponry" raises a red flag.

(Oklahoma City, Red State of Delusion) The term "Depleted Uranium" is misleading, on purpose. So-called "Depleted uranium" results from making hydrogen bombs. The CIA tries to deceive us all, all the time. They have succeeded for 55 years. George Lakoff blows the lid off the "Big Lie" about uranium weapons use.

Processing natural uranium removes about half of the bomb making material. It is then called "depleted uranium" by the powers that be, because it can no longer be used to make H-Bombs; but, it is used to make uranium bullets, shells, land mines and regular bombs instead.

The so-called "depleted uranium" is 88% as radioactive as the original uranium. There is a huge amount, about 1.5 billion pounds, of "depleted uranium" at H-bomb factories in the US.

The word depleted does not mean the uranium is safe or OK to use, it means it has been used to make H-Bombs, that’s all.

A less deceptive name would be George Lakoff’s "Radioactive Weaponry."

Or "12% depleted uranium;" but, the Lakoff’s term "Radioactive Weaponry" better describes what the US Military is currently widely using in Iraq and Central Asia.

Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner.
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Forum posts

  • I’m sure that the government would prefer any references to this weaponry to be DELETED! Using the terminology "depleted" is about the most mealy-mouthed hypocrisy I can think of. This is really a weapon of mass destruction, masquerading as harmless, and America and its allies are deploying it! In future eras, they will be the ones remembered as the evil ones, not those they warred against.

  • Relabeling depleted uranium "radioactive weaponry" might score propaganda points, but it would itself be misleading. The major dangers from depleted uranium do not come from its (low) radioactivity, but from its chemical toxicity.

    — Dan Clore

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/

  • I remember hearing 20-odd years ago that the U.S. Army was developing "Tactical Nuclear Weapons". At the time these were described as "Nuclear Artillery Shells". My reaction at the time (being somewhat less informed on Orwellian doublespeak and "framing" than I am today) was visualizing Hiroshima out of a tank muzzle. OHMYGOD!, I thought. They can’t be THAT crazy!! Now that we know that DU penetrators have been on line since the ’70’s (Don’t forget...some of the 7.62mm NATO rifle ammo is DU, too) and the more insidious fashion in which DU particles CAN kill, I think (reframe that...I KNOW) they are THAT crazy, and a whole lot more. These weapons, will, in all likelihood, be turned against American citizenry if we refuse to be properly "trained", or "educated", or whatever euphemism our corporate/religious/poitical oligharchy is fond of this week.

  • Speaking of re-framing, does anybody have another term for our so-called "war on drugs" which has
    transformed the U. S. into the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization?

    The so-called "war on drugs" is not really a war on drugs but rather a war on politically selected people.
    White people arrested and jailed are just colateral damage.

  • Boeing used a long time uranium as a wing component in the 747.