Beware of Your Own Belief and the Appearance Of Truth
by Vince?Daliessio
On lewrockwell.com today is an article from the Catholic newspaper The Wanderer, on the alleged harm done to Iraqi children?through environmental exposures to?depleted uranium (DU) munitions expended in the first Persian Gulf War.
This story has been floating around for a long time.?I have spent almost 15 years in the business of cleaning up environments that have become contaminated?with substances such as?uranium, so I have a little background in it. I?have checked up on this story several times, and?I have to say that although the birth defects pictured in the link are gruesome, absolutely no evidence is presented in the story that would even come close to linking expended DU rounds to the deformities seen.
This is not to say that the US Government has any concern at all for the health and well-being of civilians living in "enemy territory", to say nothing of its own soldiers - clearly this is not the case. But this story has no scientific basis, and I told an LRC correspondent so yesterday in an email when he blogged it. To no avail, apparently. I?had the same sinking feeling I get whenever I see a correspondent repeat the ridiculous and thoroughly discredited? (not to mention ungrammatical) Pentagon 9/11 missile story.
Please, gentlemen, for the greater liberty, be careful what you write. You don't want to look like a crank.
