Depleting Bagdads Kids

[DANG]

Warning: Video is graphic.
Source (http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m36488&hd=&size=1&l=e)

Video: Baghdad Hospital Children's Ward

September 20, 2007


In war and peace children are always amongst the most vulnerable of communities.

Iraq has been no exception.

In this episode, Alive in Baghdad takes you to the children's ward of Baghdad Hospital, to make visible the plight of some very sick children, stricken with cancer by the presence of Depleted Uranium munitions, left over from the last to US wars in Iraq.

Despite official claims that so-called "Depleted" Uranium is mostly harmless, evidence continues to mount to the contrary. Rates of cancer and deformities in Iraq's children have sky-rocketed since 1991.

Here are just a few of their stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvdk3hnNyM
The one thing bush has been honest about?
...That this is a generational war.

It is also a nuclear war that is unleashed in thousands of mini bursts of depleted uranium vapor clouds; rather than one huge mushroom cloud.

Nice, eh?

I am only worried that a few sick people may enjoy this racist torture.

To them I would like to say.... American soldiers are suffering from DU poisoning too. So to demand our enthroned warmongers to end this inhumanity could be purely selfish to them.

Normal people would hate to see this happen to any kids.

[December]

The day will come when America will be sued by the Iraqi people for these crimes...
Thank you, president Bush.
Thank you, neo-cons.

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"It is here, in the realm of politics, that much confusion has been sown. Supporters of Zionism for years skillfully attacted their opponents as "anti-Semites", to the extend that many Americans, Jews and gentiles alike and especially the media, are loath to even question the policies of Isreal no matter how odious.
Furthermore, the broad brush of anti-Semitism frequently has been used to besmirch anyone offering a conspiratorial view of history."

Jim Marrs "Rule by Secrecy"
page 61.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060931841/103-5217172-3542217?v=glance&n=283155

[Marley]

Why aren't similar observations being made of the soldiers handling this stuff? In the same physical place as these Iraqis?

[jafar00]

Sued? Wouldn't you prefer the ones responsible be brought in for an International War Crimes trial at the Hague?[hr]
Why aren't similar observations being made of the soldiers handling this stuff? In the same physical place as these Iraqis?


Heard of Gulf War Syndrome?

[PatrickHenry]

DU is bad news.

Its radiological effects may not be as bad as its chemical toxicity.

And US soldiers are getting dosed too, as DANG noted.

It needs to be discontinued.

[Marley]

Heard of Gulf War Syndrome?

Yes, but I didn't note the term anywhere in the article provided!

Nor have I ever heard that DU was the cause of it.

And I've only heard of the syndrome related to the 1991 war.

I'm skeptical of all this DU stuff coming from the same corners (the left ones). Top officers DO go into the field, even if the politicians don't, I doubt the top officers would subject themselves, or those under them to any REAL harm.

Rates of cancer and deformities in Iraq's children have sky-rocketed since 1991.

Again, are similar observations being made in US military families?

Remember, the UN sent weapons INSPECTORS, not "finders" it;s a fact that Saddam had nuke programs.

Remember also the geography, specifically Chernoble (sp?) What are the prevailing winds?

The right answer isn't the convenient one, it's the right one.

[Elrathin]

I'm skeptical of all this DU stuff coming from the same corners (the left ones). Top officers DO go into the field, even if the politicians don't, I doubt the top officers would subject themselves, or those under them to any REAL harm.

It's called long term exposure. Top officers do not LIVE in all the areas that heavy fighting goes on. They do not live there for years like the Iraqi civilians do.

Take X-Ray technicians. Constant exposure to X-Rays can serisouly affect someone medically if they do it for years and years improperly. However, someone that just goes in 2-3 times a year won't.

Also Gulf War syndrome is thought to be a combination of possible chemical and DU that was in the soil during the fighting. We have yet to have any studies on whether or not there is a return from this war. I will be willing to be in about 5 years we will hear many cases coming out.

[jafar00]

Remember, the UN sent weapons INSPECTORS, not "finders" it;s a fact that Saddam had nuke programs.


Here we go again. The UN inspectors WERE there to FIND weapons and programs. They found evidence of neither.
And who said it's a fact that Saddam had nuke programs? Where is the documentation? Where are his centrifuges? Where are his WMD?

[DANG]

Military staff dont play around the wreckage and rubble thats been hit by DU shells.

Its the kids.

Sure theres some particles that are airborne, and US Soldiers are give birth to freak shows when they get home.