The left and Robert Fisk trot out the tired "uranium based" weapons mantra; this time criticizing the IDF for supposedly using munitions that had spread radioactivity across Lebanon's battlefields.  Perhaps realizing that the depleted uranium mythology has been thoroughly debunked many times over, Fisk and a Dr. Chris Busby of the British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk speculate that the Israelis used, "...some novel small experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (eg, a thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation flash ... The second is that the weapon was a bunker—busting conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium." Got that?  The IDF has either miniturized a nuclear bomb or have devilishly substituted enriched uranium for DU in a bunker bustng bomb.  Why the Israelis would waste a perfectly good batch of enriched uranium in...(Read Full Post)