Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers

[bananas]

In part two of our interview, Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military's extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus. Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: "They're are extremely hard to bear witness to, but it's something that we all need to pay attention to ... What this has generated is from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War II." Jamail has also reported on the refugee crisis of more than one million displaced Iraqis still inside the country, who are struggling to survive without government aid, a majority of them living in Baghdad.

Full transcript at http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/20/ten_years_later_us_has_left

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Mission accomplished. Now all they need is a US styled health care cystern

and our job there will be done.

[proverbialwisdom]

2. Democracynow.org is very brave to cover this, as are you. What a tragedy.nt

[DhhD]

3. When will the world courts start assessing the fines and set payment dates?

[truth2power]

4. Oh. My. God!!! Those babies.

GWB, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all the so-called leaders who perpetrated this horrendous crime against the Iraqi people deserve to burn in Hell for a thousand eternities.

And that includes that worthless waste of flesh, Madeline Albright. Burn in Hell, you harridan, for what you've done.

And Satan got a new heart.....

[progressoid]

5. Good lord.

[midnight]

6. It is so difficult to know how we allow this war to continue... Time for the coalition forces

that are responsible for this horror to assist in the medical care of this terrible cost of doing this type of damage...

[limpyhobbler]

7. List of Democrats who voted to allow the Iraq War

Bush couldn't have done it without the support of them.

Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Carnahan (D-MO), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Cleland (D-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Edwards (D-NC), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hollings (D-SC), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Torricelli (D-NJ), Yea

[Kurovski]

9. Not to be too much of a drama queen, but do these people not break down

and weep from time-to-time for what they allowed?

The theory that Sociopaths and psychopaths seek out and strive for high positions of power comes to mind.

[AikidoSoul]

11. But these people who voted were repeatedly lied to...with not small, but HUGE lies that scared

the crap out of them.

LIES are powerful when they create fear.

[ThomThom]

14. Yes but if they had looked a little deeper they would have known that what they

were hearing didn't add up.
We here at DU knew that it was all bullshit and we did not fall for that crap.

[NorthCarolina]

12. Third-Way Conservadems...go figure. nt

[pansypoo53219]

15. election blackmail. georgee POLITICIZED a war.

war criminal.

[Quantess]

17. I'm going to go ahead and say they were politically cynical.

Yes, it was apparent to anyone who paid attention that there probably were no WMDs. But, it was politically risky at the time to go against the grain --the popular widespread opinion in the USA-- that Saddam had WMDs.

[stupidicus]

8. this has been more than a pet peeve of mine for over a couple of decades now

going back to the first Bush andmin.

It's just a way of disposing of the poison we created in the most obscene way possible.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+clinton+depleted+uranium&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGHP_en#hl=en&gs_rn=7&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=Bush%20bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&pq=bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&cp=9&gs_id=s&xhr=t&q=Bush%20and%20bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&es_nrs=true&pf=p&rls=com.microsoft:en-us%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGHP_en&biw=1680&bih=847&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Bush+and+bill+clinton+depleted+uranium&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.aWc&fp=5c1c9833dc6c5608

[sheshe2]

10. I listened, however I could not

finish watching. That broke my heart.

[LeftInTX]

13. These birth defects are horrific...should be shown in the MSM

[mojowork_n]

16. Your avatar is a reminder...

The Christian population in Iraq has declined by half. Those
that are left mostly had to flee to 'havens' that are now
getting worse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/world/middleeast/exodus-from-north-signals-iraqi-christians-decline.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

From a year ago:

Christian families in Baghdad grabbed clothing, cash and a few other provisions and headed north for the Christian communities along the Nineveh plain and Kurdistan’s three provinces. They joined tens of thousands of other Christians from the capital, Mosul and other cities who traced similar arcs after earlier attacks and assassination campaigns.

“They traded everything for security,” said the Rev. Gabriel Tooma, who leads the Monastery of the Virgin Mary in the Christian town of Qosh, which took in dozens of families.

The Christians in northern Iraq make up a tiny fraction of Iraq’s legions of displaced people. In all, there are 1.3 million of them across the country, according to the most recent United Nations estimates. Many live in garbage dumps, shanty towns and squalor far worse than anything facing the Christian families in Kurdistan.

Still, Christians and other minorities were singled out in the years of sectarian cleansing that bifurcated a once-diverse Baghdad into pockets of Sunnis and Shiites. Estimates by the United States and international organizations say that Iraq’s prewar Christian population of 800,000 to 1.4 million now stands at less than 500,000.

[WillyT]

18. Sad K & R !!!

[JohnyCanuck]

19. k&r n/t