LP: Heads Roll At The Veterans Administration: Mushrooming Depleted Uranium (DU) Scandal Blamed

"a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret..."
ummm, not at all clear why this person is an "eminent scientist"... she is an activist. As to published and reviewed papers? I don't see much at all.
Deplete Uranium could be very very dangerous, but I do NOT know of any respected work in the field that says it IS dangerous. The US government has said categorically it is NOT dangerous. It has NOT been corrected by the press, academe, etc... but little has been (nothing yet on the bluge in the Bush shirt during the debate..)
The book The Tipping Point talks about the "broken window" theory of crime... well, of social behavior in general, crime in particular. People are sensitive the their environments and move into those openings. Unrepaired broken windows say that something is untended, not watch, un owned, and says there is a vacuum of public or private overship of the space, and in move the vandals, followed by... etc.
The Bush administration has broken many many "windows" of civil liberties and democratic governance, legitimate business practice, conflicts of interest, and the effect is not only widespread in the United States but abroad... who are at once attracted by the vacuum, and see too that the US would be harder put to criticize, being a bad example and making political gain into national interest and wanting support more than thoughtful laws and processes