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That shitstain Bush ought to be in jail for the rest of his life for this alone.
http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/330-131/9306-fallujah-babies-under-a-new-kind-of-siege
By Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges since 2005.
"We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities, both in numbers you cannot imagine," Alani told Al Jazeera at her office in the hospital, while showing countless photos of shocking birth defects.
As of December 21, Alani, who has worked at the hospital since 1997, told Al Jazeera she had personally logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009. Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city on December 29, that number had already risen to 699.
"There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we've never seen them until now," she said. "So when I describe it all I can do is describe the physical defects, but I'm unable to provide a medical term."
Magoo48
(4,652 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)There is a blog called arab woman blues that goes into this matter in very nasty, vivid detail. It is not for the squeamish. As for the blogger herself, she is not one that is easy to empathize with (as her anti semitic anti shia and pro Saddam sentiments can leave you dizzy, but you have to look past that when you see that we wound up ruining the lives of millions who were not like her at all
malaise
(267,461 posts)I remember the discussions right here
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)They'll just respond with:
"And.........?"
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)I did some Googling on this. The Guardian seems to have been reporting this for several years. Not much in American media.....not yet. This story is just beginning.
The medical community should name the birth defects phenomenon "the Bush-Cheney Syndrome".
DCKit
(18,541 posts)There are children being born with deformities Hollywood couldn't imagine if they tried.
madokie
(51,076 posts)And yes the turd needs to be incarcerated for the crimes he and his crew are guilty of, that some have even admitted too.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)I remember listening to Dr. Coldicott discuss the entired DU issue. It's so old it's a crime that nothing has been done about it. And we have an EPA... What a joke. What a joke. Frack, dump DU all over a nation, and no one even does a thing about it.