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dikayasobaka ([personal profile] dikayasobaka) wrote2006-02-22 04:42 pm

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От обедненного урана, используемого в боеголовках, уже, по некоторым сведениям, умерли тысячи человек только среди американских военнослужащих, побывавших в Ираке во время "Бури в пустыне" в 1990-91 годах. Пиздец какой-то...

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DU Death Toll Tops 11,000 (англ.)

[identity profile] dikayasobaka.livejournal.com 2006-02-22 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

There are plenty of holes in the reasoning here - for instance, plenty of those who served in the armed forces during that war or any other die because of PTSD-related things (people start drinking, oding drugs, acting recklessly, etc.). But what astounds me is how many of those vets I know got sick, sometimes very ill, after the war, being relatively young and without any combat wounds. I judge it unscientifically, I admit - never had time to really go through realted stucies - btu what I see astounds me.