LAKOFF: The name depleted uranium was carefully selected to imply harmlessness

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Sun, 29 May 2005 17:35:28 -0700 (PDT)

LAKOFF: The name " depleted uranium " was carefully selected to

imply harmlessness. " Radioactive weaponry " raises a red flag.

 

 

 

 

 

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Depleted, it ain't!

 

 

So-called Depleted Uranium, that is!

 

 

George Lakoff, guru of " reframing. " Lakoff suggested

relabeling the issue: " radioactive weaponry. " The name

" depleted uranium " was carefully selected to imply

harmlessness. " Radioactive weaponry " raises a red flag.

 

 

by Bob Nichols

Project Censored Award Winner

 

 

(Oklahoma City, Red State of Delusion) The term " Depleted

Uranium " is misleading, on purpose. So-called " Depleted uranium "

results from making hydrogen bombs. The CIA tries to deceive us all,

all the time. They have succeeded for 55 years. George Lakoff blows

the lid off the " Big Lie " about uranium weapons use.

 

Processing natural uranium removes about half of the bomb

making material. It is then called " depleted uranium " by the powers

that be, because it can no longer be used to make H-Bombs; but, it is

used to make uranium bullets, shells, land mines and regular bombs

instead.

 

The so-called " depleted uranium " is 88% as radioactive as the

original uranium. There is a huge amount, about 1.5 billion pounds, of

" depleted uranium " at H-bomb factories in the US.

 

The word depleted does not mean the uranium is safe or OK to

use, it means it has been used to make H-Bombs, that's all.

 

A less deceptive name would be George Lakoff's " Radioactive

Weaponry. "

 

Or " 12% depleted uranium; " but, Lakoff's term " Radioactive

Weaponry " better describes what the US Military is currently widely

using in Iraq and Central Asia.

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