Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq

[clem_c_rock]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m10.shtml


But, but the Pentagon just came out w/ er, a report that Gulf War Syndrome was Saddam's fault. There you have it -this article is bullshit!


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Dr Janan Hassan of the Basra Maternity and Childrens Hospital told IRIN in November 2004 that as many as 56 percent of all cancer patients in Iraq were now children under 5, compared with just 13 percent 15 years earlier. “Also,” he said, “it is notable that the number of babies born with defects is rising astonishingly. In 1990, there were seven cases of babies born with multiple congenital anomalies. This has gone up to as high as 224 cases in the past three years.”
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[getmeouttahere]

1. Yes, and depleted uranium will trump agent orange....

in terms of the lasting horrors of warfare!

[KittyWampus]

10. It MIGHT Be DU. It MIGHT Be Something Else. It MIGHT Be Several Factors

along with DU or NOT DU.

When you're blowing shit up all over the place there's LOTS of toxins that can end up in the environment... think NYC downtown after 9/11.

Please don't call me an "apologist" either.

There needs to be solid scientific research done and not accusations based on suppositions.

[clem_c_rock]

12. Oh lordy - you probably wont feel comfortable until it's an investigation

done by the pentagon.
I bet you are still saying the same thing about agent orange.

[realFedUp]

2. one more for the international crimes tribunal

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush Inc. v. the rest of the world.

[thecai]

3. Disgraceful!

recommended this thread...

[G_j]

4. nominated

[noamnety]

5. Sequel to My Pet Goat

One face two face
red base blue base ...

Not one of them
is like another.
Don't ask us why.
Go ask your mother.

Say!
Look at his fingers!
One, two, three...
How many fingers
do I see?

One, two, three, four
five, six, seven,
eight , nine, ten.
He has eleven!

Eleven!
This is something new.
I wish I had
eleven, too!

[clem_c_rock]

6. LMFAO!

Nice!

[Griffy]

7. NOW read this.. and see history repeating..!!

WE knew about radiation posioning in Japan after the WW2 atomic bombs.. but the story was refuted as theres no such thing as radiation sicknesses! guess thats still a theory?.. like gravity...

MORE people suffer as the government lies, and more PAYOLA!

http://www.democracynow.org/static/hiroshima.shtml

<snip>

" a series of ten articles for the Times that served as a glowing tribute to the ingenuity and technical achievements of the nuclear program. Throughout these and other reports, he downplayed and denied the human impact of the bombing. Laurence won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.

It turns out that William L. Laurence was not only receiving a salary from The New York Times. He was also on the payroll of the War Department. In March 1945, General Leslie Groves had held a secret meeting at The New York Times with Laurence to offer him a job writing press releases for the Manhattan Project, the U.S. program to develop atomic weapons. The intent, according to the Times, was "to explain the intricacies of the atomic bomb's operating principles in laymen's language." Laurence also helped write statements on the bomb for President Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson."

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[Griffy]

9. kick to educate someone! nt

[jokerman93]

8. Use of Depleted Uranium Has Biblical Antecedents

In the ancient middle east, conquerors often salted the fields of their defeated enemy so they would remain barren and weaken the people for a generation or so. This was an effective way to permanently pacify entire populations by starving them out and derailing the civic and cultural life of the people.

The intentional use of depleted Uranium against American enemies in foreign lands seems to be a cognate of the same tactic. It's a form of backhanded genocide.

The "fires of freedom" are indeed burning these days. It would be good for Bushco if the entire Iraqi population just quietly went away and perished. Bush-Freedom is the freedom to steal, rape, pillage, lie and magically turning tax dollars into huge profits.

...Well it's nice anyway that our "Christian" Army is using traditional methods discussed in the Bible. Hey, must be Gawd's will!

Anyway, who knew?

[dogday]

11. Don't forget our soldiers are also exposed and may have

health problems and babies with birth defects also. Who cares as long as the elite rich are not affected by any of this. Send them to their dealth or let them get sick.