Saturday, September 18, 2010

Fallujah Horror: Depleted Uranium?

"...What the people of Fallujah, more than any other people in the world, are facing everyday and every second of every day is hell on earth; they have to witness the death of more than a quarter of the new born within a week of their birth and to make the deeply painful decision of what is to be done about the huge proportion of grotesquely deformed babies that are born with two heads, three eyes, no limbs, one eye.

The world owes the people of Fallujah an explanation of what has triggered this avalanche of deformity and horror. The usual celebratory experience of giving birth has been transformed to a time of anxiety and horror. Women dread becoming pregnant and above all carrying the fetus for nine months only to find out that what they are carrying has been condemned to death the moment that life was to begin. Such rapid and unique developments do not occur without a cause. The only logical proximate cause for this human tragedy was the 2003 war and in particular the 2004 assault on Fallujah. It was estimated that during that assault over 10,000 tons of depleted uranium, DU, was used in the bombardment of the city of 300,000 people.
Both the Pentagon and the British governments insist that the use of DU is not illegal and that the studies that they have undertaken do not reveal DU to be a carcinogen. That might be true but many an international body including the EU and the UN have been trying, unsuccessfully, to prevent the use of DU munitions because there are many physicians, engineers and studies that suspect that the DU produced vapour in battles is capable of contaminating humans, soil and water. It is this radioactive contamination that causes the severe deformities in the newly born “things” since many of them do not look like humans.

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(Thanks Walid)

2 comments:

  1. <p><span><span>The whole Iraq story is horrible. Before the US decided that Iraq needed democracy, mostly everyone had a reasonably good life. Now with the millions killed or injured and millions that have become refugees thanks to America's gift of democracy, most are yearning for the good old days of Saddam. America’s real motive became apparent on the first day of the invasion when US forces surrounded the Ministry of Oil building to safeguard useless records while leaving the national museum containing artifacts from 6000 years totally unprotected even when it became known that the looting had started; we saw the looting in progress live on CNN or Jazeera but the US did nothing to stop it. Now Israel is asking for a repeat performance on Iran.</span></span>
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    </p><p><span>About depleted uranium, Gaza and Lebanon that had been used for decades to test American and Israeli weapons saw the testing in 2006 of DU, DIME bombs and white phosphorus and we can start expecting Fallujah-type births in a few years in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel. It took 10 years for the 50,000 American servicemen to develop the cancer and genetic problems from having handled or being exposed to DU munitions from the first Iraq war. In 2006,  DU bombs were dropped on a Lebanese village less than a kilometre from the Israeli border while the winds were blowing south so Israel got a dose of its own medicine and should start seeing the fruits of its efforts in about 5 years. </span>
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  2. Walid, Saddam was one of the most evil people born in the history of the homo sapien species. Why are so many non Iraqi Arabs unable to understand this basic fact?

    Who killed 15 thousand Iraqi security forces 2003-2008? Why aren't non Iraqi Arabs apologetic?

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