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Old 03-22-2013, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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Contamination from U.S. weapons, particularly Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, has led to an Iraqi health crisis of epic proportions. “Children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems,” are just some of the congenital birth defects being linked to military-related pollution.

Today, 14.7 percent of Fallujah’s babies are born with a birth defect, 14 times the documented rate in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fallujah’s babies have also experienced heart defects 13 times the European rate and nervous system defects 33 times that of Europe. That comes on top of a 12-fold rise in childhood cancer rates since 2004. Furthermore, the male-to-female birth ratio is now 86 boys for every 100 girls, indicating genetic damage that affects males more than females.


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Old 03-22-2013, 11:42 PM
 
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Sorry, not buying this silly twaddle. The MSM loves nothing better than krapping all over Bush and they would have been all over this. Hell, the Obama administration would've made sure of it.
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Old 03-23-2013, 12:50 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Contamination from U.S. weapons, particularly Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, has led to an Iraqi health crisis of epic proportions. “Children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems,” are just some of the congenital birth defects being linked to military-related pollution.

Today, 14.7 percent of Fallujah’s babies are born with a birth defect, 14 times the documented rate in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fallujah’s babies have also experienced heart defects 13 times the European rate and nervous system defects 33 times that of Europe. That comes on top of a 12-fold rise in childhood cancer rates since 2004. Furthermore, the male-to-female birth ratio is now 86 boys for every 100 girls, indicating genetic damage that affects males more than females.


Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima | Dispatches from the Underclass (photos)
yeah but what about all the chemical weapon Saddam used that would be in the food and water supply and passed down and more likely the cause DU would mean higher cancer rates will he had nerve agents and biological weapons he used on his own people also DU was heavily used in the Gulf war because it is made to take out heavy armourer of tanks and Saddam had the forth largest armoured tank s in the world at the time so we had to take them out and DU was the main choice for anti- armour rounds.
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Old 03-23-2013, 01:05 AM
 
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yeah but what about all the chemical weapon Saddam used that would be in the food and water supply and passed down and more likely the cause DU would mean higher cancer rates will he had nerve agents and biological weapons he used on his own people also DU was heavily used in the Gulf war because it is made to take out heavy armourer of tanks and Saddam had the forth largest armoured tank s in the world at the time so we had to take them out and DU was the main choice for anti- armour rounds.
Did you get into the nerve agents? That's quite the sentence
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Old 03-23-2013, 02:05 AM
 
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Did it say anything about the Viet Nam war? Probably not since the Dems started it and kept it going but they did use some powerful chemicals there. Strong poisons to kill the heavy jungles. Men that came home suffered with the effects and still are.
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Old 03-23-2013, 02:07 AM
 
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Did it say anything about the Viet Nam war? Probably not since the Dems started it and kept it going but they did use some powerful chemicals there. Strong poisons to kill the heavy jungles. Men that came home suffered with the effects and still are.
It was a horrific outcome. I'm surprised Bush Jr wasn't smart enough to learn from the past. But that's just expecting too much from him.
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Old 03-23-2013, 02:13 AM
 
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War is hell---that is the lesson. Will war ever be stopped forever? I don't think so, not in this life.
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Old 03-23-2013, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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Contamination from U.S. weapons, particularly Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, has led to an Iraqi health crisis of epic proportions. “Children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems,” are just some of the congenital birth defects being linked to military-related pollution.

Today, 14.7 percent of Fallujah’s babies are born with a birth defect, 14 times the documented rate in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fallujah’s babies have also experienced heart defects 13 times the European rate and nervous system defects 33 times that of Europe. That comes on top of a 12-fold rise in childhood cancer rates since 2004. Furthermore, the male-to-female birth ratio is now 86 boys for every 100 girls, indicating genetic damage that affects males more than females.


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Bad science never impressed me.

Epidemiologically...

Mircea
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Old 03-23-2013, 11:53 AM
 
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Marrying your cousin, an Iraqi tradition, causes many of the same defects.
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