Video: BBC reports on increase in birth defects in Fallujah after 2004 offensive.

[JohnyCanuck]

Cancer, leukaemia and infant mortality are all increasing in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, which saw fierce fighting between US forces and Sunni insurgents, a new survey says.

Still one of the most dangerous places in Iraq, doctors have been reporting a large number of birth defects since the 2004 offensive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10721562

[SpiralHawk]

1. "It's all Sherrod Brown's fault." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Or maybe it's Bill Clinton's fault. Not sure. Whatever, I am certainly not responsible for these little brown birth-defectorized rug rats. I was on vacation, I think. And by the way, I did not have lies with those WMDs. I did not have torture with all those Eye-rackis, and everybody else. I was busy (smirk) playing with my putter."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Just some Oil-profits Crusade collateral damage." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney

"Sneer. That's just the cost of doing business. Ya gotta look on the bright side at all the profits republicon war cronies have reaped. Smirk."

- xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R - Chickenhawk War Profiteer)

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Just more 'collateral damage' from the empire.

[defendandprotect]

4. K&R --

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Boy this post takes me back in time on DU when it happened

I and others said ......... this and worse would and will happen
Now wait for the Depleted Uranium used there....

The US military is not Green Peace.


Remember the threads on the use of illegal weapons and bombs used on certain
theaters of the Iraq War by the US?


WHY ARE WE STILL THERE?

[malaise]

10. I remember that well

I hope Cheney finds time in hospital to think about the people of Fallujah

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. It is already reported the amounts of Defects of newborns in Iraq

Is way above any Statistical Anomaly and becoming a Normality
that has taken the curve well beyond the norm
according to EU reports.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Coming soon to Kandahar and other locations in Afghanistan.

[digitaln3rd]

7. Shades of Japan after WW2 all over again.

It's not the first time the US has made life worse off for people.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. I remember reports that followed from that siege

Also, based on the photos and some eye-witness reports, the information was that napalm/agent orange/white phosphorus had been used. What happened to that info? What happened to those photos right after the siege?

[KansDem]

9. All because of an imperialist's lies...

...and the children suffer.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. kick n/t

[laughingliberal]

13. K & R nt