This wars real effects are not all here yet

I don't know if everybody has seen this yet, and would have attached it to another post somewhere but it was too gross. So if this thread dies do let it be said no one ever said anything about that?

This is somewhat of a old story, but will become brand new when others here in the States have it happen to their children from exposure the GI's encountered while in country. How much happens I wouldn't think anybody knows. I would be willing to bet there is a big time cover up going on with this too.

Warning! extremely ghastly pictures!

http://www.einswine.com/atrocities/du/
(Click on "please read" for this story)
EXTREME BIRTH DEFORMITIES
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"Unborn children of the region being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA."

- Ross B. Mirkarimi, The Arms Control Research Centre, from his report: ‘The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to Iraq.’ May 1992

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I have recently received large numbers of photographs of horrendous birth deformities that are being experienced in Iraq. I have not, quite frankly, ever seen anything like them. I urge you to copy this page / these pictures and circulate them as widely as possible.

In an act of stark cruelty, the US dominated Sanctions Committee refuses to permit Iraq to import the clean-up equipment that they desperately need to decontaminate their country of the Depleted Uranium ammunition that the US fired at them. Approximately 315 tons of DU dust was left by the use of this ammunition.The Sanctions Committee also refuses to allow the mass importation of anti-cancer treatments, which contain trace amounts of radio-isotopes, on the grounds that these constitute '...nuclear materials..'

The majority of the pictures were supplied to me by a source who prefers to remain anonymous at the current time. I was unable to acquire either original negatives, or prints from negatives. They arrived in the form of colour A4 copies. I scanned them into Photoshop and attempted to clean and sharpen them as best I could. There has not, and I repeat not, been any digital alteration other than the cleaning and sharpening process. No text documentation arrived with the pictures, so I have described them as accurately as I can. It is my understanding that the photographs were taken from 1998 onwards. I would be grateful to anyone who could potentially supply me with further information about these types of deformities; medical terms for them, etc.

Additional pictures were taken by Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, President of the International Yellow Cross. Most appeared in his 1996 book "URANIUM PROJECTILES - SEVERELY MAIMED SOLDIERS, DEFORMED BABIES, DYING CHILDREN" (Published by AHRIMAN - Verlag, ISBN: 3-89484-805-7). The book is a documentary record of DU ammunition after-effects, and they were taken between 1993 and 1995. Dr. Gunther also supplied me with additional photographs from his unpublished collection, some of which feature the birth deformities being experienced by Western Gulf war veterans' children. I have asked Dr. Gunther's permission for his pictures to be treated as 'Public Domain' and copyright free. He has agreed and you may reproduce them as you see fit.
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back and procreate. Evil is as evil does.

In fact I've posted it here a couple of times and I think we should all know what our tax dollars are paying for and those pictures and the ones from the prisons in Iraq show us! Bush IS, getting ready for it! He's cutting Veteran's Benefits!

I didn't want upset people but I just couldn't pass them by and ignore them either. Some people will not listen, but others will. I have given hope a short leash, the tipping scale I have thrown out the window and think it is never too late to do something, and much too late not to be doing anything.

The American's Terror On Iraq
http://www.albasrah.net/index1.html

America is not so beautiful any more, like the old song says!

I see thing like this and try to figure out what good could ever come from it (This one is a tough one for me too)

The earth will eventually blend every ones body back into it's self, in so in effect we all a part each other.

The anguish I feel is for these people that claim to be these so and so righteous people, want or claim to be protecting the lives of unborn people and yet support people that think these type of things are okay and necessary. (The mothers that happen of these gargantuan of problems still try to care for them, if that says anything)

The anguish is tempered by knowing that denial can kill you and many around you. The knowledge that is worth knowing would never hurt anyone if one seeks the life affirming type.

I refuse to be sad unless it is necessary for me to heal, if I can't figure it out, I put it aside and come back for it later. I also know we must depend on each other. To that end I do a disservice to myself or others I know letting sadness take away any energy from what I am doing. Our bodies are of the flesh, but the spirit is inextinguishable. Them sermons the religions give are for the religious, but people who are not can still learn from them too.

To become a mirror or a beacon, or part of that massive space in between it all, that would be a question I would ask

I profess to be nothing if it's more proficient to get me from point A to point B.

My sadness gives me the strength and the energy to fight back!

I am always looking for the "WHY" most, if not all of my day

Who really knows what anyone really knows, the thing is getting people to stop long enough to think, wonder and ask "WHY", and I thank you for that :-)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)"

http://www.miniluv.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=471

Some great quotes there! Things that makes one ponder!

When I think about the innocent children maimed. I am sad, angry and ashamed that my country (and thus me) has done this horrible thing. Poisoned the very ground for centuries to come.

The brass in the military knew about this. They do not care whatsoever about the troops or the civilians. They wave their little flags and wear their little emblems and pieces of ribbons that claim what honorable men they are. Yet using munitions like DU is not honorable, it is despicable, and they are despicable men. They do not deserve to receive honor because they have no honor.

Every veterans group from every war has been screwed by this government when it came time to honor the commitments made to the veterans.

Then we find out there was no reason to attack Iraq. Except maybe to enrich Cheney and those fine corporate leaders behind Cheney. As for Bush*, he got his rocks off playing tin soldier. What a shallow human. I doubt he even knows what he has caused. Christian leader my ass.

I wish every fundamentalist church would show these pictures to their congregation. Let the pastors explain to the congregation what a fine thing we are doing liberating the Iraqi people.

These pictures are the results of Gulf I. There is no telling what the future holds from the current war.

I am ashamed of America and what we have become. There is no way to atone for this.

This is a crime against humanity.