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I can appreciate what you're saying, Lebell, but how long do you think it'll take to reach 'equilibrium'? And how long do you think it'll take the soldiers and civilians DU contaminated bodies to reach equilibrium? To me it sounds like you are hoping for a natural, non human answer to this problem. Unfortunatetly, that's not how it works. This fish tank (good anaolgy for pointing out the first ecosystem question, but it has problems matching up after that) is a large area of land. This area of land has been coated with DU every time the U.S. and it's allies decide to beat on the Iraqi people. The 350 or more tons I quoted was only for Desert Storm. There is supposed to be over 890-1300 tons total DU munitions used on Iraqi soil between 1992 and mid 2004. Also, the DU munitions are not spread evenly over the whole of Iraq. A great deal of the munitions were used in towns and cities. In other words, a lot the DU dust is localized in medium to heavily populated civilian areas.
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