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INFANT MORTALY SOARING IN IRAQ
Guardian, UK - Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting. . . Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects - which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumors, and others with nervous system problems - are unprecedented and at present unexplainable.
A group of Iraqi and British officials, including the former Iraqi minister for women's affairs, Dr Nawal Majeed a-Sammarai, and the British doctors David Halpin and Chris Burns-Cox, have petitioned the UN general assembly to ask that an independent committee fully investigate the defects and help clean up toxic materials left over decades of war - including the six years since Saddam Hussein was ousted. . .
A group of Iraqi and British officials, including the former Iraqi minister for women's affairs, Dr Nawal Majeed a-Sammarai, and the British doctors David Halpin and Chris Burns-Cox, have petitioned the UN general assembly to ask that an independent committee fully investigate the defects and help clean up toxic materials left over decades of war - including the six years since Saddam Hussein was ousted. . .
2 Comments:
Propaganda is subtle sometimes.
The area around Fallujah has not suffered from 'decades of war'. Fallujah is on the far side of Iraq from Iran, so was almost certainly quiet rear area in that war. War came to Fallujah with the US occupying the area shortly after the fall of Baghdad.
Also, as far as I've ever heard, Fallujah didn't have any of Hussein's chemical warfare facilities in it, so the mess there is almost totally the result of the US war on Fallujah.
Can you say DU, depleted uranium?
A high density material that comes to us as a waste product from the enrichment process for fuel rods, warheads, etc. The extreme mass makes it an ideal material for armor piercing projectiles. One example being the 30mm cannon on A-10 Warthog aircraft which fire DU rounds. Impact generates so much heat that the material is instantly pulverized into a fine radio active dust--the gift that keeps on giving.
We trade in death, illness, and destruction.
and on it continues...
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