'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies (what we have done)

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http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=42762


Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.


The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing campaigns in Fallujah in 2004.

After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used a year earlier in Fallujah.

In addition, depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste, were used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon admits to having used 1,200 tonnes of DU in Iraq thus far.

Many doctors believe DU to be the cause of a severe increase in the incidence of cancer in Iraq, as well as among U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War and through the current occupation.

"We saw all the colours of the rainbow coming out of the exploding American shells and missiles," Ali Sarhan, a 50-year-old teacher who lived through the two U.S. sieges of 2004 told IPS. "I saw bodies that turned into bones and coal right after they were exposed to bombs that we learned later to be phosphorus.

"The most worrying is that many of our women have suffered loss of their babies, and some had babies born with deformations."

"I had two children who had brain damage from birth," 28-year-old Hayfa' Shukur told IPS. "My husband has been detained by the Americans since November 2004 and so I had to take the children around by myself to hospitals and private clinics. They died. I spent all our savings and borrowed a considerable amount of money."

Shukur said doctors told her that it was use of the restricted weapons that caused her children's brain damage and subsequent deaths, "but none of them had the courage to give me a written report."
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snake cheney and the neo cons are so bloody you can smell them before you see them.


and the rest of us are guilty of letting them do it. we are still letting them.

I tried my best to stop the neo cons ever since the 2000 coup d'etat. I, we, should have tried harder.

my apologies and tears to the women of Iraq

[ananda]

1. Sigh.

A lot of us tried. I voted for Gore and Kerry.

Before the war, I protested and participated in
candlelight vigils, signed petitions, did what I
could.

Obviously, it wasn't enough.. but at least I tried.

Sue

[Bluerthanblue]

2. DU from the first Gulf War was known, and documented

to have caused misscarriages, stillbirths, deformities and illnesses. Our soldiers who were exposed have been dealing with this- and trying to get the message out- but people turn away.

:shrug:

so very sad- so very wrong.

peace~

[jwirr]

4. You just cannot help but think about the right to life idiots who think

they were helping to preserve life by voting for the death prez. Fools and worse.

[leftchick]

3. Video: DU for dummies

*WARNING* graphic photos of US war crimes.

:(


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://planetquo.com/Gulf-War-Syndrome-Depleted-Uranium-And-The-Dangers-Of-Low-Level-Radiation&h=399&w=512&sz=134&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=eAFl-qNrvjIBoM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddepleted%2Buranium%2Bfallujah%2Bbabies%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG