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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:28 AM
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The United States Takes the Matter of Three-headed Babies Very Seriously.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25152.htm

April 06, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- - When did it begin, all this "We take your very seriously"? With answering-machine hell? As you wait endlessly, the company or government agency assures you that they take seriously whatever reason you're calling. What a kind and thoughtful world we live in.

The BBC reported last month that doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the United States during its fierce onslaughts of 2004 and subsequently, which left much of the city in ruins. "It was like an earthquake," a local engineer who was running for a national assembly seat told the Washington Post in 2005. "After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah." Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe.

The BBC correspondent also saw children in the city who were suffering from paralysis or brain damage, and a photograph of one baby who was born with three heads. He added that he heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children. One doctor in the city had compared data about birth defects from before 2003 — when she saw about one case every two months — with the situation now, when she saw cases every day. "I've seen footage of babies born with an eye in the middle of the forehead, the nose on the forehead," she said.

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One could fill many large volumes with the details of the environmental and human horrors the United States has brought to Fallujah and other parts of Iraq during seven years of using white phosphorous shells, depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs, neutron bombs, laser weapons, weapons using directed energy, weapons using high-powered microwave technology, and other marvelous inventions in the Pentagon's science-fiction arsenal ... the list of abominations and grotesque ways of dying is long, the wanton cruelty of American policy shocking. In November 2004, the US military targeted a Fallujah hospital "because the American military believed that it was the source of rumors about heavy casualties." 2 That's on a par with the classic line from the equally glorious American war in Vietnam: "We had to destroy the city to save it."

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Crop Circle Donating Member (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:46 AM
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1. Depleted Uranium is a weapon of mass destruction
and should be banned. Now that Obama is in office is there much of a chance of banning DU? Unfortunately, I think probably not.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:53 AM
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2. Depleted uranium is likely the culprit. Depleted or not, uranium is toxic for the human body. nt
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postulater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 09:05 AM
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3. We could gain the anti-choice movement support
with photos of the 3 headed baby and a slogan like, "Save this baby! More Depleted Uranium!"

(Sorry, I'm feeling a bit wrong-headed today.)
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