A Burning Bush, or a Glowing Raed?

Raed Jarrar (scroll down a bit), thinks he's found the WMD in Iraq. It first arrived in 1991, and more was delivered over the last twelve months:

More than 40% of the American soldiers are affected by the radiations of the Depleted Uranium used by the American Forces during this war.

Well… I did check many sites personally, using a Geiger Counter, and found that the radiation level is like 25000 – 50000 times more than the regular background reading. I saw hundreds of Iraqi tanks destroyed by DU bullets, in the middle of the residential areas… I mean… Saddam is a criminal, he put those tanks between civilian houses, but Bush is a criminal too… he used radio active weapons to destroy them.

Iraqis were cutting parts of the radio active tanks, and melting them to be re-used as steel I beams for constructing houses. I met dozens of Iraqis working in a huge area near the southern gate of Baghdad where the American forces collected some hundreds of destroyed Iraqi tanks… those Iraqis didn’t know the meaning or Uranium, or the meaning of radiation… they didn’t have other jobs and they had official papers from the CPA, as an approval for cutting and transferring the parts of the Iraqi weapons.

In some places like Nasryya, Basra, Amara and Kut, destroyed Iraqi tanks were not moved from their locations, I tried – in cooperation with dozens of other volunteers -to start some small awareness campaigns in those cities, I hope they reduced the number of children playing inside the tanks.

I noticed many holes in the ground near the destroyed tanks, which means that hundreds of bullets are contaminating the surface water of Iraq now, (the bullet can reach easily the dept of 75 cm under the ground, and the Iraqi surface water is around that level) I mean… I can easily identify the tank destroyed by a DU bullet now, if you search carefully you’ll find the hole of penetration, which is the point the bullet entered from. When the DU bullet (which is extremely solid and strong) hit an Iraqi tank, it penetrates the 8 – 10 cm of metal as if you are punching a can of Pepsi using a screw driver… it’s really nothing for the bullet. The thing is that during this penetration so much friction happens between the two metals (steel and DU) that makes the DU bullet burns like a mass of fire, it burns up everything in the tank (including the tank ammunition) causing a big explosion inside the tank, that’s why usually you can notice the turret thrown upside-down some meters away from the burned tank.

Be sure to check out his post, which includes the source material.