Leukemia and other cancers have gone up in Iraq since the war...

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040512/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_children&cid=1514&ncid=1473

Iraq children's plight a 'humanitarian catastrophe': aid group

LONDON (AFP) - Iraqi children are living in conditions worse than those endured under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime and US sanctions, a children's rights organization said, warning that they were experiencing a "humanitarian catastrophe".

"Every child has some level of psychological trauma," said Jo Baker, director of the London-based Child Victims of War. snip

It also warned that the US-led coalition's use of weapons containing depleted uranium was producing horrible birth defects and high cancer rates in Iraq.


Leukemia and other cancers have gone up in Iraq since the war, as have births of children with deformities, especially shrunken limbs and missing eyes, and still births, it said.


"We have discovered not one single batch of medicines has arrived in any hospital since occupation except those getting through carried by NGOs (non-governmental organizations)," Baker added.

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1. All the depleted uranium vapors and ash...

...from Gulf War I, plus the latest in weapons of mass extinction that our government has not yet disclosed.

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2. this is shameful

all the money we are pouring into this war, and they have no medicine?
Isn't Bush running around telling us how they have restore the countries schools and hospitals? The ONLY medicines getting through are from NGO's!!!
<"We have discovered not one single batch of medicines has arrived in any hospital since occupation except those getting through carried by NGOs (non-governmental organizations)," Baker added.>