Use of depleted uranium in Iraq

[desura]

https://washingtonspectator.org/irradiated-iraq-nuclear-nightmare/

The weapons were first used in 1991 during Desert Storm, when the U.S. military fired guided bombs and missiles containing depleted uranium (DU), a waste product from nuclear reactors. The Department of Defense (DOD) particularly prized them because, with dramatic density, speed, and heat, they blasted through tanks and bunkers.

Within one or two years, grotesque birth defects spiraled—such as babies with two heads. Or missing eyes, hands, and legs. Or stomachs and brains inside out.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

ok.... any reason we are posting a year old news story that informs on something that has been known for decades?