Depleted Uranium Is A War Crime

*U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott: “Depleted Uranium is used on the ends of bullets and on the ends of shells because it is so hard (that) almost any armament is vulnerable to something that is tipped with Depleted Uranium.”
In the cities and towns of Afghanistan
In the heart of the Balkans – the heart of Iraq
Not your Grandfather’s style of deadly munitions
It’s silent and deadly years after the mission
Depleted uranium is a war crime
Gonna cut through their armor, then cut through your lungs
If you make it home alive you’ll still die young
A greedy gang of liars, yeah we've seen it all before
A moneymaking scheme led by war-profiteering whores
*U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott: “They were throwing it away until they figured out they could use it for armament.”
Half Life – 4.5 Billion
Half Life – You’ll waste away
We've heard their lies before and we know they’re lying again
Feels like a déjà vu of Agent Orange and Vietnam
Weaponry so sadistic it is hard to comprehend
War profits surge with every breath by Uncle Sam
*U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott: “We went to a hospital in Southern Iraq, and a woman was there with a very deformed child and her husband had been in the Iraqi Army and had been in the battles in Southern Iraq and came home and they produced a baby with very severe malformations… Both the Leukemia rates in children and malformations at birth had increased by 600% and it was clearly an epidemic where all this DU had been dumped… It becomes a dust that can be inhaled and infect the blood stream and the rest of the body and it was the opinion of the doctors there that this was caused by depleted uranium… They simply saw this as being a direct result of the war by United States.”
Half Life - 4.5 Billion
Half Life - We waste away
*U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott: “The doctor said, ‘Women (in Iraq) at the time of birth don’t ask if it’s a boy or a girl, they ask: Is it normal?’ …The military denies first, and then after the evidence builds to the point where they can no longer deny, then they do the research. That’s what happened in the Vietnam era around Agent Orange and I suspect and I’m worried that that’s what will happen this time.”
*The talking segments in this song come from an October 2005 interview conducted by Justin Sane of Anti-Flag with U.S. Representative, Jim McDermott (D-WA).