Fallujah Doctors Claim Increased Deformities in Babies After ‘Special Weaponry’ Used by US
July 23, 2008 · Print This Article
Another shameful legacy the United States may be leaving behind in Iraq – deformed children. Doctors and residents in Fallujah are saying that babies born there are showing increasing rates of deformities after the US began using ‘special weaponry’ in the two massive bombing campaigns in the city during 2004.
Though they denied it at first, the Pentagon admitted in 2005 to using ‘white phosphorous’, a restricted incendiary weapon. Depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste, were also used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon has admitted to using 1,200 tons of it in Iraq thus far.
From AfterDowningStreet.org:
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.”
Doctors and the Fallujah General Hospital administration will not go on record about the deformities, fearing reprisal, so no official data is available – we can only go on anecdotal evidence. Unfortunately, it may be many years before we find out the whole truth of how children in Iraq are being affected by this unnecessary war.
Shameful. We sent our troops to Iraq, to risk their own lives, for the wrong reasons – and as a result, who paid for it the most? Innocent citizens of Iraq. Families torn apart, lives destroyed – and for what?
Link [AfterDowningStreet.org]
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
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This is disgusting. The war in Iraq is completely unnecessary, and more to the point it is shameful and disturbing. There is yet untold environmental and social impact of the occupation. Someone stop this regime!
of course the iraq war is yet another horrible example of our mercantilistic empire, but crying about it on the internet not only does nothing to end it, but absolutely fluff-all to deal with the root reasons why america fights wars like this. i find that the vast majority of people have no idea why america is so war-like.
wars are methods of expanding state-power, which is why traditionally the left has been so pro-war. they are also methods of using the government as a tool for what amounts to theft of wealth.
you may eventually get the government to pull out of iraq (btw it is in the interest of the people who control the government to prolong the war), but unless you address the underlying reasons for why we went to war, we will be fighting another in under a decade, i guarantee it. the single most important step towards making america a peaceful country again is abolishing the federal reserve.
It horrible what is happining to those innocent children, but don’t even think about putting the blame on the US.
‘Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation’s capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn’t they?
And I’m supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was ‘desecrated’ when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?…Well, I don’t. I don’t care at all.
I’ll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I’ll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about theHoly Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia
I’ll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for chopping off Nick Berg’s head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I’ll care when the cowardly so-called ‘insurgents’ in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I’ll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide .
I’ll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution’sBill of Rights.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care.
When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don’t care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don’t care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed ’special’ food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being ‘mishandled,’ you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don’t care.
And oh, by the way, I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s spelled ‘Koran’ and other times ‘Quran.’ Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and-you guessed it-I don’t care!!
Sooner or later, this meesage will get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!
If you don’t agree, then by all means ignore this post. Should you choose the latter, then please don’t complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country!
And may I add:
‘Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem’ — Ronald Reagan
I have another quote that I would like to add…
‘If we ever forget that we’re One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under’ Also by.. Ronald Reagan
One last thought for the day:
In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England ’s Prime Minister words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said: ‘A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.’
On more thing to add, those are AMERICANS caring for those people in that photo. AMERICAN Solders & Marines!!!
Carla, you are a moron and frankly, kind of a shitty person.
Carla you’ve been sucked into this hook, line, and sinker.
Why don’t you ask the question:
Why did Bin Laden attack America?
Publishers Note: Carla’s comment was entirely too stupid for print. If you’d like to hear what she said, swing over to Rush Limbaugh’s website and soak in the dumbassery.
aww come on. as long as she wasn’t personally attacking anyone I think she’s entitled to her misguided views.
Nice…Now you are practicing censorship… Communism at its best. Only hear what you want to hear… COWARDS!!
Yeah, I am practicing censorship. I can put up with Edwards pseudo-science skepticbabble, but Carla’s “Obama is a radical Muslim” line of bullshit is too much.
Carla, don’t take this the wrong way, but you are a very stupid, ignorant person with a delusional, simplistic view of the world. You make our planet a worse place. You are free to rant on all you want about what Rush, Glen, and Sean have told you on the talking box in your manufactured home, but you won’t have a free hand here on our site.
We’re not a public square, we don’t have to follow the Constitution, and the FCC can kiss our ass. And we don’t have to put up with stupidity that rises to the level of people like Carla.
If you want an uncensored site, start your own blog.
In that case, Fuck you, and die.
It’s a wonder how you even stand living here in the US?
Go hug a suicide bomber or somthing…
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It’s been great talking to you Carla. I hope that whole crazy right wingbat thing works out for you.
Jesus, did TownHall.com have their full quota of dumb-as-dirt-Rethuglicans filled for today, Carla?
It’s tempting to engage you, but you know the old saying: “Never wrestle with a pig, you get dirty and they like it…”.
I’ll just reiterate Shea’s sentiment: you’re an ugly person.
P.S. Gotta love the way it’s always the god-fearin’, peace-lovin’ Krisjun that falls back to violent rhetoric or action when losing the debate.
Okay dick head… MA first off it was going normal (as normal can get in here) I didn’t start name calling!! All you other assholes did. I gave my opinion and for a bunch of peace loving intellectuals all of you turned into savage animals. Being the warmonger I am, you damn right I fought back. And to tell you the truth, I can’t stand for the life of me the right or the left, extrems never work, you people are extrem. Even if the solution is the right thing to do, and a few republicans agree, IT’S WRONG, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE!!! And the same goes for the republicans. The divide that this country is going through is too sharp and many are going to get cut. Welcome all to the hall of shame!
“Even if the solution is the right thing to do… IT’S WRONG, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE!!!”
WTF? Carla, you’d best just stop right there. Now you’re really ceasing to make any sense at all. Raving like a lunatic isn’t going to get anyone to agree with you.
I’m done…It was nice making your bloods boil. Thank GOD for the USA for letting us do this without having to worry about getting put in prison, executed, or worse having our families executed in front of us to teach us a lesson in speaking out against our leaders and Government. In the end we are all Americans and I love you all for it. Aslam o alaikum
Proud to be an Dumbass.
Carla, don’t flatter yourself. You didn’t make our blood boil at all, just made me sigh in sadness; sadness because I know there are a lot dead ender, cold blooded, proudly ignorant dumbasses like yourself out there. I’m pretty sure your ilks time in power is about to come to a very abrupt end in November though. Good luck in our new world, you’re going to need it.