"The Board of Directors of the corporate monster are the ones who control it." - What bloody comic book did you lift that from Little Hawk??

"The Board of Directors" according to Company Law this side of the pond have to be nominated and elected to the Board and guess who has the final say as to whether they sit on the Board as Directors - dramatic roll of drums - The shareholders, yes Little Hawk, those poor saps who by investing their money in the corporate monster - actually own the bloody thing.

Now this other one I really liked:

"In this case I would would like to bind you with wire and force feed you DU like a goose in November." - Donuel

Very kind of you Donuel, now let's see what the WHO says would result from your actions.

Point 1 - 98% of everything you feed into me will not be absorbed but would pass right on through.

Point 2 - Contact exposure with DU through the skin is very low and unimportant.

Point 3 - Gut absorption rates for uranium in food and water are about 2% for soluble and about 0.2% for insoluble uranium compounds.

Point 4 - The fraction of uranium absorbed into the blood is generally greater following inhalation than following ingestion of the same chemical form. Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.

Point 5 - In assessing potential health effects of exposure to depleted uranium no consistent or confirmed adverse chemical effects of uranium have been reported for the skeleton or liver.

So I am left with the distinct impression that there would be no swelling to the proportions of a "Macey's Day" Balloon or any engorgement of my liver like a Strasbourg Goose. But anyway Donuel, thanks for the gesture but as with most of your endeavours your time would be a damn sight better spent engaged in something a bit more purposeful.

Now then Donuel care to weigh the issues, truths and tolerance and come up with some sort of reponse to the questions you were asked relating to your assertion that:
"US Depleted Uranium weapons in the Balkans and Iraq amounts to over 10,000 Hiroshima sized bombs in the amount of radioactivity unleashed over 17 years."

Only US Depleted Uranium weapons are the problem, Donuel? What about those fired by Saddam Hussein's gunships? What about those fired by the Soviets?

How is it that these Depleated Uranium weapons are only a problem in the Balkans and in Iraq, Donuel? How about in the locations in various countries where there are "live-fire" ranges where they practice and test these munitions? How about the factories where those munitions are machined and made?

By the bye Donuel have you got any idea why it is called "Depleated" Uranium?

Natural uranium consists of a mixture of three radioactive isotopes which are identified by the mass numbers 238U (99.27% by mass), 235U (0.72%) and 234U (0.0054%).


Depleted uranium contains about 99.8% 238U, 0.2% 235U and 0.001% 234U by mass.

The main difference between DU and natural uranium is that the former contains at least three times less 235U than the latter.
DU, consequently, is weakly radioactive and a radiation dose from it would be about 60% of that from purified natural uranium with the same mass.

So Donuel it is actually less radioactive than natural uranium that can be found just lying about on the face of the planet - how come we didn't all die off centuries ago, if it is as dangerous as Donuel would like to make us all think it is.