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Privateer
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 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject: The murder of children |
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http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/330-131/9306-fallujah-babies-under-a-new-kind-of-siege
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| While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities. |
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| "There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we've never seen them until now," she said. "So when I describe it all I can do is describe the physical defects, but I'm unable to provide a medical term." |
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| Most of these babies in Fallujah die within 20 to 30 minutes after being born, but not all. |
Who decided it was ok to take pieces of nuclear waste and spray them all over civilian areas? This is a crime against humanity and depleted uranium should be banned.
The US is already responsible for sickening birth defects caused by Agent Orange in Vietnam. If there was any justice, it would be paying massive compensation both in Vietnam and in Fallujah. |
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| FYI: Depleted Uranium may be nasty stuff but nuclear waste it is not. Hence the word depleted. The chemical hazards outweigh the radiological hazards a million to one. (Source wiki.) |
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Privateer
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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^ Ok, it may not be recovered from spent reactor fuel; instead it's a byproduct of producing enriched uranium for reactor fuel.
The point is DU should be banned. |
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:28 am Post subject: |
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I wouldn't argue against that myself, but the military benefits of the material are such that I wouldn't be holding my breath.
Reminds me of the banning of hollowpoint bullets for military use. Fat lot of good that did, the army used explosive rounds instead. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| In the old days cities were destroyed with salt in the fields, now its depleted Uranium. |
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Privateer
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| Salt doesn't cause birth defects. And it was sown into the ground when the object was to destroy the city utterly - was that supposed to be the case in Fallujah? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| Salt doesn't cause birth defects. And it was sown into the ground when the object was to destroy the city utterly - was that supposed to be the case in Fallujah? |
Are you really surprised? Fallujah was a gangster city and a hotbed of resistence against the Americans. Again, what was and has been the American military's approach to armed resistence in the 21st Century? |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| Salt doesn't cause birth defects. And it was sown into the ground when the object was to destroy the city utterly - was that supposed to be the case in Fallujah? |
I think you're reading too much into my statement... |
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