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J_J_

(1,213 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 12:23 PM Sep 2014

US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 depleted uranium rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq



Now please take a look at the effects of depleted uranium on babies

https://www.google.com/search?q=depleted+uranium+iraq&client=firefox-a&hs=eOf&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=DIUpVLKOLoa4igKCwoCYAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw

I don't want to post any pictures, nor can I look at them because they are so just ... I just don't know what to say.


Anyone who thinks we are on some kind of humanitarian mission in Iraq needs to wake up.

Please send pictures to fundies who are pro life.

I know they don't care about Iraqis (so why are we 'helping' them?) but our troops are also affected by this and have had babies with birth defects as well.

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US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 depleted uranium rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003 (Original Post) J_J_ Sep 2014 OP
I looked. God will not forgive this. We did it knowing it was dangerous. Are we using depleted jwirr Sep 2014 #1
and willy pete and torture and beheading reddread Sep 2014 #2
Makes on want to puke. jwirr Sep 2014 #3
the saddest thing of all reddread Sep 2014 #4
Yeah I am 73 in two days and I remember when we had some hope left that things would get jwirr Sep 2014 #7
disregard the misery you didnt cause reddread Sep 2014 #8
Thank you. jwirr Sep 2014 #9
"Might makes right" is the only thing America can point to to justify its multiple war crimes. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5
I no longer have to wonder JEB Sep 2014 #6
kick J_J_ Sep 2014 #10

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
1. I looked. God will not forgive this. We did it knowing it was dangerous. Are we using depleted
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 12:33 PM
Sep 2014

uranium again?

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
4. the saddest thing of all
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 01:58 PM
Sep 2014

being old enough to remember the possibilities and appreciate the slow arc of justice in this country.
that is completely behind us.
Im starting to wonder what flavor bootlickers taste?

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
7. Yeah I am 73 in two days and I remember when we had some hope left that things would get
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 03:16 PM
Sep 2014

better. Gone, gone, gone.

 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
6. I no longer have to wonder
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 02:15 PM
Sep 2014

why the USA is referred to as the Great Satan. Depleted Uranium, cluster bombs, land mines: indeterminate killing is the USA way.

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