Common Dreams reports (September 11th):
On
a single day in Iraq there were 29 bombing attacks in 19 cities, killing 111
civilians and wounding another 235. On September 9th, reports indicate 88 people
were killed and another 270 injured in 30 attacks all across the country. Iraq
continues in a seemingly endless death spiral into chaos. In his acceptance
speech for the Democratic nomination for President, Obama claimed he ended the
war in Iraq. Well… not quite.
The
city of Fallujah remains under siege. Not from U.S. troops, but from a deluge of
birth defects that have plagued families since the use of depleted uranium and
white phosphorus by U.S. forces in 2004. No government studies have provided a
direct link to the use of these weapons because no government studies have been
undertaken, and none are contemplated.
Dr.
Samira Alani, a pediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, told Al
Jazeera,
"We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities, both in numbers you cannot imagine. There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we've never seen them until now."
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