Among other weapons, the Abrams M1A1 tank is equipped with a 120 mm. gun that can fire a variety of ammunition, including a depleted uranium-clad penetrator round. This is one of the culprits that people are complaining about.

I was not aware of the following point, GUEST, so on this you are correct—if a bit ungracious in your eagerness to gloat:   the M1A1 does incorporate depleted uranium armor. Harder that straight steel armor, which is good—but—it can still be penetrated. With quite unpleasant results. Nice, when you're one of the poor sods who happen to be inside the bloody thing when it happens! ". . . the safest armour. . . ."   Really, GUEST?

So we, in our inimitable ingenuity, have figured out some lovely ways of getting rid (more or less, at least domestically) of our nuclear waste. Bully for us!

Now, just today, someone told me (in person) that the Iraqis were also using depleted uranium penetrator rounds. She said she had heard it just recently on PBS. PBS? I watch PBS quite a bit, but I never heard anything about this. But since I don't watch it twenty-four hours a day, it's conceivable that I could have missed it. My immediate reaction was to wonder if she were possibly confusing PBS with Fox News Service, but she's an intelligent person (if, occasionally not too well informed), and I really don't think she could be that confused. We have lots of depleted uranium. Lots of it. But where would the Iraqis get the stuff?

Anybody (GUEST?) heard anything about this?

Don Firth