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Related: About this forumTen Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers
In part two of our interview, Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military's extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus. Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: "They're are extremely hard to bear witness to, but it's something that we all need to pay attention to ... What this has generated is from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War II." Jamail has also reported on the refugee crisis of more than one million displaced Iraqis still inside the country, who are struggling to survive without government aid, a majority of them living in Baghdad.
Full transcript at http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/20/ten_years_later_us_has_left
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)and our job there will be done.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)truth2power
(8,219 posts)GWB, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all the so-called leaders who perpetrated this horrendous crime against the Iraqi people deserve to burn in Hell for a thousand eternities.
And that includes that worthless waste of flesh, Madeline Albright. Burn in Hell, you harridan, for what you've done.
And Satan got a new heart.....
progressoid
(49,999 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)that are responsible for this horror to assist in the medical care of this terrible cost of doing this type of damage...
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Bush couldn't have done it without the support of them.
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Carnahan (D-MO), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Cleland (D-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Edwards (D-NC), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hollings (D-SC), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Torricelli (D-NJ), Yea
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)and weep from time-to-time for what they allowed?
The theory that Sociopaths and psychopaths seek out and strive for high positions of power comes to mind.
AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)the crap out of them.
LIES are powerful when they create fear.
ThomThom
(1,486 posts)were hearing didn't add up.
We here at DU knew that it was all bullshit and we did not fall for that crap.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,997 posts)war criminal.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Yes, it was apparent to anyone who paid attention that there probably were no WMDs. But, it was politically risky at the time to go against the grain --the popular widespread opinion in the USA-- that Saddam had WMDs.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)going back to the first Bush andmin.
It's just a way of disposing of the poison we created in the most obscene way possible.
http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+clinton+depleted+uranium&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGHP_en#hl=en&gs_rn=7&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=Bush%20bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&pq=bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&cp=9&gs_id=s&xhr=t&q=Bush%20and%20bill%20clinton%20depleted%20uranium&es_nrs=true&pf=p&rls=com.microsoft:en-us%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGHP_en&biw=1680&bih=847&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Bush+and+bill+clinton+depleted+uranium&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.aWc&fp=5c1c9833dc6c5608
sheshe2
(83,910 posts)finish watching. That broke my heart.
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)The Christian population in Iraq has declined by half. Those
that are left mostly had to flee to 'havens' that are now
getting worse:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/world/middleeast/exodus-from-north-signals-iraqi-christians-decline.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
From a year ago:
Christian families in Baghdad grabbed clothing, cash and a few other provisions and headed north for the Christian communities along the Nineveh plain and Kurdistans three provinces. They joined tens of thousands of other Christians from the capital, Mosul and other cities who traced similar arcs after earlier attacks and assassination campaigns.
They traded everything for security, said the Rev. Gabriel Tooma, who leads the Monastery of the Virgin Mary in the Christian town of Qosh, which took in dozens of families.
The Christians in northern Iraq make up a tiny fraction of Iraqs legions of displaced people. In all, there are 1.3 million of them across the country, according to the most recent United Nations estimates. Many live in garbage dumps, shanty towns and squalor far worse than anything facing the Christian families in Kurdistan.
Still, Christians and other minorities were singled out in the years of sectarian cleansing that bifurcated a once-diverse Baghdad into pockets of Sunnis and Shiites. Estimates by the United States and international organizations say that Iraqs prewar Christian population of 800,000 to 1.4 million now stands at less than 500,000.