Why do Americans act so self righteous about chemical weapons when they use depleted uranium ammunition?
962260
Self-rightousness is a trait of American citizens.
831461
Are you trying to tie in depleted uranium?
364429
Or they use them against us, which they already SAID they would. But hey just because a country that harbors terrorists, and pretty much wants to see all Americans DIE a horrible painful death, and IS going to get nuclear weapons and DID say they WILL use them again us, our citizens, and our allies, does not mean we should stop them. I mean come on, let's let them kill a few million peoiple first, THEN maybe we will let NATO try some political sanctions for a few years.
665911
You said, "we Americans"!!!  I can't believe it!  Hooray!!!\n\nYou know, judging by what I've seen here at YA, if Americans HAD to read instructions to have a gun, they might have to be just knife nuts.  Or stick and rock nuts.
701978
The reason is is that people believe anything that confirms what they want to hear.As recently as a few months back failed  senate incumbent from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum stated wmd's had been found, he later backtracked on this. Yet many of the most gullible ideologues started claiming "See, see their are weapons in Iraq."
370776
The world is full of a bunch of low lifes...and moral trash... the same people who ciriticize the americans are the same cowardly dogs that put their tails between their legs, and did not want to get involved in IRaq. After all, let Saddam slaughter innocent people and destroy nations, it is not their problem that people are being persecuted by terrorists..We would be out of Iraq by now if we had gotten the right kind of help from these pig nations who were more worried about getting oil from sadaam than the slaugher of innocent men, women and children and global terrorism. \n\nanti-americanism is not acceptable....except to other terrorists...like the cowardly dogs that have no morals, that sit around and trash other people...\n\nI have decided I am an anti-european....because there is no one out there in europe, that is worth my respect.
914130
At on point in time, most people made there own ammunition.  If you need the ammo enough, you use any available metal.
113661
I doubt it.  What could stoke the fires of passion in a holy war more than fighting against the inevetable?  Most Americans don't seem to realize that is how they see this.  In their eyes, they're not "evil-doers."  The way they see it, they are trying to save the rest of the world from us.  If you saw yourself on the side of the righteous rebels, would YOU ever give up?
600923
First of all - it won't fit in our weapons. \n\nNext is the fact that their ammunition does not meet our safety standards.\n\nNor does their ammunition meet our reliability standards.\n\nAnd we do not know if that ammunition has been properly maintained or stored.
405356
Feel better now that you've got that out of your system, you asshole? I hope so. \n\nMy brother-in-law served two tours in Iraq. He told me about what he saw over there, and it sounded to me like we HAVE done some good in removing Saddam. I can't regret removing a monster like that from power.\n\nAs for who's ashamed of what - there's plenty of shame to go around in this world. Looks to me like your dose is due at least in part to self-righteous, self-serving bullshit. \n\nNobody WANTS war. War means death and destruction and terror. Hindsight is 20/20, my friend, at worst, the American people were led around by the nose. Verbally abusing and belittling the people who had the balls to get up and do something about what they had good reason to believe was a dangerous situation is simply reprehensible. \n\nWhy don't you use your ball-busting verbosity to DO something to make the situation better rather than preaching distain and attempting to spread blame? Go overseas and hand out aid. Send people money to rebuild infrastructure or start an organization to sponsor business overseas. But don't sit around Monday morning quarterbacking - it's useless and only breeds distrust and discontent. Learn from the mistakes of history and do better than those who came before you.
487998
Do the 'insurgents' (meaning native inhabitants) who are defending their families, have anywhere near the resources or technology the US has? Have they killed from long distances with the efficiency of the US bombs dropped on wrong targets? \nDo their high tech weapons match that of the US for contamination, radiation, poison, or are they designed to inflict disease and cancer for the coming generations? \nFor the Iraqi's, they know they're dead anyway, but now it's just determination to rid their home of an unwanted invader. All this resistance from a country the US cheated and left defenceless in the last Gulf War. \nDoes any US person care that there'll be lots more service men coming home with tumours and cancers caused from sitting around their own radiactive weapons? \n\nLike anyone who's actually followed the non-US version of events and lies, who wouldn't love to see every gram of radioactive fallout from the water and soil lovingly returned to the US where it came from, so their own citizens can enjoy the agonising pain of tumorous growths and deformed children. Surely that would convince GWB to form an exit strategy from Iraq, with or without his oil.\nI bet lots of people don't see anything wrong with supporting of an illegal invasion to selfishly get what they want at the cost of anyone who gets in their way.\n\nHow sick and shameful it really is.
922910
It's just more of this fool telling some Americans what they wish to hear. The truth of this man is that he is a thug. He participated in the hostage taking during the Carter years and will not rest until Israel, America, the UK and every western influence nation is either wiped out or converts to his perverted version of Islamic religion.\n\nEdit: Zahier, read this - Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) generally include nuclear, biological, chemical and, increasingly, radiological weapons. The term first arose in 1937 in reference to the mass destruction of Guernica, Spain, by aerial bombardment. Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons. ...\n\nThere WERE WMD based on this definition. Barrels of chemical weapons. What do you think he murdered the Kurds with, dirty language?
78527
yes, they are developing "bunker buster" cruise missles that "dig" underground and explode. They also make "tactical nukes" which are essentially low yeild nukes fired from a cannon. and there is of course the uranium shells used by U.S. tanks in Iraq. They use uranium to harden the steel of the shells to better pierce armor, although these are not specifically "nukes" they have a lot of the nasty side effects like cancer causing radiation. I don't know if the U.S. still makes ICBM's, but I'm pretty sure they do. I know the most recent ICBM's are multiple warheads essentially 7 nukes in one, each with a blast zone exponentially larger than Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
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one source ws from the former soviet union...after that fell apart many former soviet officials started peddling off their stuff like a yard sale on the black market.  I would guess a lot comes to them through Syria who gets them from russia and china.  You are right Jennifer.  There are international arms dealers who don't care who they sell to...some have lived right here in the U.S.  In wwII there were people who were American citizens who actually sold equipment to Hitler.  I'm sure it continues and that is a disgrace.
721061
You are a smart cookie!  Our fiasco in Iraq has given Iran the guts they needed to challenge the US.  After seeing how we're getting our asses kicked by a ragtag bunch of jihadists, they figured it was time to kick some sand in the bully's face.  And yes, anybody who's been paying attention knows that Saddam didn't want to admit he didn't have WMDs because he didn't want to appear weak to the Iranians.  Just another example of how stupid and self-absorbed some Americans can be.  We stumble into areas of the world where we don't have the first clue what's going on.
893863
Because dumb rednecks are easily duped. They don't realize they're getting raped by evil, thieves that call themselves Christians. They'd rather watch Nascar and think everything is ok while all our soldiers die. I am a Gulf War vet (E-5, 91A, 93rd evac Hospital) who is appalled by the war profiteering by cheney and Haliburton. How do people still stand up for these lunatic, Bible-thumping pedophiles. It is SICK!
787025
We didn't give them to Saddam.  Somebody sold them to Saddam, so he could use them against whomever he wished.  Then they were blown up so he could buy more.  And of course we had to buy more all the time as well.  Somebody is making a "killing" in all this alright.  And they don't want to change this formula that has worked for so long down through the ages.  I think they call it "business as usual."  It is time we all woke up to this game you are calling attention to, and put an end to it.\nYou bet they will be armed, even if they ask us to leave!  An arms dealer never met a client he didn't like doing business with.  And they may well be used against us yet again in the not to far distant future.  It is a most disgusting practice.