Well, I would say in our country depleted uranium is not exactly at the top of the list anymore. When people are sick, not even just after a deployment, people start racking their brains to come up with an explanation for why they don't feel right. As a clinician who's done this for 35 years, what I see in the human condition is people start making a list of stuff that could possibly have been the reason, and they go through a process of eliminating the candidates on that list. I'm just talking in general; I'm not even talking about veterans right now. But something that people have less experience with, let alone something that might be radioactive, are all the kinds of issues that people who are experts in health risk communication have identified as things that would be worrisome to anybody. Also, in a climate of suspicion, it makes it hard for people to believe that something that sounds as exotic as depleted uranium is not why they're suffering.
On March 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.