What have WE done to the people of Iraq??
gimmesometruth27
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this is just shocking. more evidence or war crimes committed by the us and the "coalition of the willing" with the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium. these sorts of munitions should be banned, and the use of such weapons should be considered a crime against humanity. i was gonna post pics but decided it was not a great idea. people need to see them though.
don't forget to check out the video on the linked page...
Iraq War Anniversary: Birth Defects And Cancer Rates At Devastating High In Basra And Fallujah (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/2 ... 17701.html
Ten years after the start of the U.S. invasion in Iraq, doctors in some of the Middle Eastern nation's cities are witnessing an abnormally high number of cases of cancer and birth defects. Scientists suspect the rise is tied to the use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus in military assaults.
On the war's ten-year anniversary, Democracy Now! spoke with Dahr Jamail, an Al Jazeera reporter who recently returned from Iraq. Jamail recounts meeting Dr. Samira Alani, a doctor in the city of Fallujah focusing on the issue of birth defects.
She said it's common now in Fallujah for newborns to come out with massive multiple systemic defects, immune problems, massive central nervous system problems, massive heart problems, skeletal disorders, babies being born with two heads, babies being born with half of their internal organs outside of their bodies, cyclops babies literally with one eye -- really, really, really horrific nightmarish types of birth defects.
Jamail says that the current rate of birth defects for the city of Fallujah has surpassed those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear attacks at the end of World War II.
Echoing Jamail's findings, a September 2012 study published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology that focused on maternity hospitals in the cities of Basra and Fallujah recorded a devastating number of birth defects in the past decade. The study also indicated that childhood leukemia and other types of cancers are on the rise.
The study opens:
Between October 1994 and October 1995, the number of birth defects per 1,000 live births in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 1.37. In 2003, the number of birth defects in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 23 per 1,000 livebirths. Within less than a decade, the occurrence of congenital birth defects increased by an astonishing 17-fold in the same hospital.
As David Kenner notes in Foreign Policy, the numbers of miscarriages and birth defects are much higher than before the start of the war and are also "wildly out of proportion" to numbers collected in the rest of the world.
Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the lead authors of the 2012 study and a toxicologist at the University of Michigan, told The Independent in 2012 that there is "compelling evidence" to connect the growing number of defects at birth to the military assaults in Basra and Fallujah.
In a new op-ed for Al Jazeera, Savabieasfahani writes that the cancer and birth defect "epidemic" constitutes an "extraordinary public health emergency in Iraq" and that large-scale testing of the environment in the affected cities is of utmost urgency.
Watch Democracy Now!'s interview Dahr Jamail in the video above, and see the Democracy Now! website for more coverage.
and here is the link to the study:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u35 ... pdf?MUD=MP
don't forget to check out the video on the linked page...
Iraq War Anniversary: Birth Defects And Cancer Rates At Devastating High In Basra And Fallujah (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/2 ... 17701.html
Ten years after the start of the U.S. invasion in Iraq, doctors in some of the Middle Eastern nation's cities are witnessing an abnormally high number of cases of cancer and birth defects. Scientists suspect the rise is tied to the use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus in military assaults.
On the war's ten-year anniversary, Democracy Now! spoke with Dahr Jamail, an Al Jazeera reporter who recently returned from Iraq. Jamail recounts meeting Dr. Samira Alani, a doctor in the city of Fallujah focusing on the issue of birth defects.
She said it's common now in Fallujah for newborns to come out with massive multiple systemic defects, immune problems, massive central nervous system problems, massive heart problems, skeletal disorders, babies being born with two heads, babies being born with half of their internal organs outside of their bodies, cyclops babies literally with one eye -- really, really, really horrific nightmarish types of birth defects.
Jamail says that the current rate of birth defects for the city of Fallujah has surpassed those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear attacks at the end of World War II.
Echoing Jamail's findings, a September 2012 study published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology that focused on maternity hospitals in the cities of Basra and Fallujah recorded a devastating number of birth defects in the past decade. The study also indicated that childhood leukemia and other types of cancers are on the rise.
The study opens:
Between October 1994 and October 1995, the number of birth defects per 1,000 live births in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 1.37. In 2003, the number of birth defects in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 23 per 1,000 livebirths. Within less than a decade, the occurrence of congenital birth defects increased by an astonishing 17-fold in the same hospital.
As David Kenner notes in Foreign Policy, the numbers of miscarriages and birth defects are much higher than before the start of the war and are also "wildly out of proportion" to numbers collected in the rest of the world.
Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the lead authors of the 2012 study and a toxicologist at the University of Michigan, told The Independent in 2012 that there is "compelling evidence" to connect the growing number of defects at birth to the military assaults in Basra and Fallujah.
In a new op-ed for Al Jazeera, Savabieasfahani writes that the cancer and birth defect "epidemic" constitutes an "extraordinary public health emergency in Iraq" and that large-scale testing of the environment in the affected cities is of utmost urgency.
Watch Democracy Now!'s interview Dahr Jamail in the video above, and see the Democracy Now! website for more coverage.
and here is the link to the study:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u35 ... pdf?MUD=MP
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
This has been going on long before Iraq, Clinton used the same shit in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia.
I can not find this one POW's name but he was so badly beaten for almost ten years. The U.S.A. finally found him and rescued him. He is okay, barely. His Wife and Daughter had too leave him though. He's too "broken" to be okay ever again. His captors made him go on videos and tell Americans he was being treated fine.
They would promise food, or a pencil and paper. One of his captors thought is was fun to threaten to kill him every day. He got one message to his family, so he stayed alive. He learned Morse code to communicate with other prisoners. Most of the time he could hear a pop, and he knew they had been killed.
He still wonders why they kept him alive.
I can not find his name anywhere.
The doors swing both ways right?
The United states media censors this stuff. I read about in other countries headlines.
It's horrific on either side.
He came close, but never lost hope. I really wish I remembered his name.
(I need to stop typing in the dark with out my glasses)
All of their medical stats were improving quickly throughout the 70's and 80's, until Gulf war 1 and sanctions crippled their medical system in the 90's.
It takes a special type of human to go through what war veterans have lived through.
I say the same about cancer survivors.
(I've been asked to join several branches of armed forces, The pack they have to carry is 80 pounds? I'm almost 90#. My country asks too much from me. I would collapse and pass out in the sand somewhere )
I told one Marine recruiter, I can't enlist because I do not meet your branches height expectations.
He always bothered me on my Frucking lunch break. At least he gave it up, and I had peace. I have nothing to offer.
Air force? My eyesight is too bad. Please, leave me be.
Yes both sides are EVIL and so many other countries were involved to help Americans. It sucked. Civil War in ANY country is far worse. At least Saddam is DEAD. That's the real reason. That Frucker is worse than Dick Chaney. Do you deny?
But I think saddam was played by men like Cheney and Rumsfeld throughout his entire rule. And I think a guy like Cheney has cause a lot more indirect destruction than we'll ever know, in his part as superpower politician, think-tank lobbyist, and oil baron.....so if we're makin it a popularity contest.....
Russians treat each other was worse and they live in the same country?
(no offense Russia, but y'all are crazy)
Terrorists bombed an orphanage ? What sense is that?
Please take a moment and think. How badly did the U.S. try to make peace. How long? How many Bush's. Clinton tried.
I always say the same thing. " OH wow, a dictator was killed, I'm so surprised."
I really don't know Iraq, I know Saudi stuff more. No one will touch that.
Please do google. But be honest and unbiased ! I will read.
UMMMM....
He WAS a family friend of the Bush family until shet got weird. Please let it go?
There isn't much to be honest and unbiased about. Many are well documented and/or admitted to. I think if you kept an open mind, you would probably find a lot of US/western blame for crimes and massacres attributed to 'insurgents' or 'police' as well.
gone...
"History never repeats, I tell my self before I fall asleep"
It creates money and kills innocent people. The winner is... no one.
Have your heard the expression, "necessary evil" ?
This is thousands of years I'm referring to. People fight everyday, and forever.
Even if he was, that does not give us any right to invade and occupy the country
You're posts are always welcome!
It's about GREED and MONEY, always. It doesn't matter who fights who, or what country .
Are you really going to try and pretend that the U.S government has been opposed to dictators throughout it's history, and that this was the reason for it's invasion of Iraq? Are you really going to try and pretend this in the face of all the evidence?
The Iraq war was primarily, if not exclusively, about the U.S wanting Iraq's oil: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... aq-war-oil
"He [Ahmed Chalabi] and Cheney spent long hours together, contemplating the possibilities of a Western-oriented Iraq: an additional source of oil, an alternative to US dependency on an unstable-looking Saudi Arabia."
...Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of CENTCOM with responsibility for Iraq, had to say about that war:
"Of course it's about oil, it's very much about oil, and we can't really deny that. From the standpoint of a solider who's now fought in the middle east for six years – my son-in-law's fought there for four years, my daughter's been over there, my son has served the nation – my family has been fighting for a long time."
And here is what the current US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, said about the Iraq war back in 2007 (via Dick Distardli):
"People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are. They talk about America's national interest. What the hell do you think they're talking about? We're not there for figs."
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan added in his 2007 book: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." What other evidence do deniers need before accepting this obvious reality?'
As for the U.S being opposed to dictators, please explain to me why the U.S overthrew democratically elected President Allende of Chile, and replaced him with a murderous dictator, to cite just one example from a list of dozens.
Steve, she did say she knew about the house of saud, so maybe she can explain "that" dictatorship. And not for nothing, but quoting Ed lyrics or songs in your posts makes you look all over the place and confusing. You hate war yet wars an evil need??? Huh, go figure....
So, here's one for ya,
"vacate is the word
Vengeance has no place on me or her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear
Vessel stabbed, next up, volunteers?
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere"
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Thanks you, Byrnize! You said the truth. It's a game over OIL. (upton sinclair's The Jungle). America does not want to use our own resources . WE did have money to get it other places. Now we are broke and selling to everyone, our ocean properties... If we tapped into Alaska, America would be rich with money, but every native thing living would suffer or die. Alaska is a fragile ecosystem that should not be messed with.
"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner" I have a box of finger puppets that are dictators. I bought it long ago... Out of 6 , Only one of the characters is still alive.
The Former United States President's were close with the Bin Ladens. At least America rotates dictators. They are all the same. Some screw things up more, and we have a chance to vote for a new one. Kind of like a lottery. If we don't win.... The Person with power can only have it for 8 years. If we had a consistent theme, It would be more fair. I'm glad the USA has three branches of government. My question is, do you think the United States Supreme Court is fair and unbiased? It is just my feeling they have the final say in every matter... If they choose to. Scary?