Michelle Obama and Rachele Mussolini
Well, when a DU round explodes, the uranium ignites and minute quantities of it become amalgamated with dust particles that will first settle on the ground, then get blown around by the wind and are inhaled by people and animals. These small radioactive particles, giving off very low-intensity gamma radiation, also enter the food chain as they are absorbed by plants and as they seep into the ground water.
While neither the US nor NATO will recognize the devastating effect of DU on human health, in 2008 the Italian defence ministry officially recognized that DU causes cancer. This past January, the Italian government budgeted 30 million euros for the benefit of Italian military victims of DU contamination in the former Yugoslavia. But wherever DU rounds have been fired everyone, both civilians and soldiers, runs the risk of inhaling DU-dust and developing cancer. Mind you, the half-time of DU is about four billion years, meaning it will retain its current radioactivity for as long as there will be life on the planet.
Wide tracts of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan have effectively been made uninhabitable and are still being made uninhabitable each day through the use by the US and its NATO clients of DU munitions. The people still living in such regions will develop cancers, and so will their offspring, if they are at all able to generate normal, healthy children. The number of cancers and ghastly birth defects in DU-ridden regions is already staggering. The people living there may be able to grow their own vegetables, but these will slowly kill them, just like the air they breathe each and every day. One must ask if healthy vegetables can still save them. I do not think so.
Nor do I think that First Lady Michelle will be able to grow enough vegetables to feed all the poor, needy Serbs, Afghans and Iraqis living in DU-infested regions. It would be the decent thing to do: like a true US housewife, she is bound to support her husband who, after all, was elected on his solemn pledge to change things. Nor, I am afraid, will First Lady Michelle be able to grow enough healthy vegetables with the help of the little black schoolchildren from across the street. I even doubt if First Lady Michelle's fifty-five little helpers will ever enjoy the fruit of their labor in the White House gardens. Like their slave forebears, they have been exploited. Exploited in two ways: by working for free and by being used in a cheap propaganda trick.
