Fewer Iraqi children are likely to die. The reason? Sharp increase in sterility among Iraqi men.

[dajoki]

Public Service Announcement
posted: 6:22 AM, August 27, 2007 by Harkavy
Harkavy/White House
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/2007/08/public_service.php

While George W. Bush's handlers are busy writing General David Petraeus's September 11 "progress report" on Iraq — check out the facts they'll be trying to spin(http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/) — they're not ignoring other health issues.

Just last week, Bush proclaimed National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
For those Iraqi men who haven't been among the millions fleeing the country, that shows that our government cares.

More good news, again connected to Iraqi men's health: Fewer Iraqi children are likely to die in coming years. The reason? There's a sharp increase in sterility among Iraqi men. As the U.N. news service IRIN reports: According to Dr Muhammad Bashier, manager of the family planning clinic in Karada Hospital, Baghdad, the number of sterile men in Iraq has increased dramatically over the past four years as a result of stress, depression and exposure to radiation and possibly chemicals.

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"In our research, we have discovered that most of the men who are completely sterile are from areas where radiation and chemicals from war have been present in higher proportions — especially in the south of the country and in the outskirts of Baghdad," he added.

But that just means more danger to Iraqi doctors, as Bashier explains:
"It is very hard to tell an Iraqi man that he is sterile. We even had a doctor who was killed less than two years ago by a patient after giving him the news."

[ThomCat]

1. If we deal enough depleted uranium behind

and leave enough people sterile, does it count as genocide yet?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. see, if you wait long enough, no more problem!

damn them all. And the news that cancer rates in US troops serving in Iraq have shot up tremendously? Now that is really supporting the troops.