Call It Ecocide

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sent by geobear since 76 days 12 hours 1 minute, published about 75 days 16 hours 1 minute
In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun documenting a startling rise in birth defects — about 15 times the pre-invasion occurrence of early-life cancers and brain and nervous-system abnormalities.
tags: iraq, du, birth defects, environment
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  1. #1    If Jesus didn't want them to have birth defects, he wouldn't have invented depleted uranium.

    From what I understand, birth defects aren't always the egg's fault. Wait for the survey showing birth defects in soldier's newborns back home. (And, yes, a minority of ours over there have their own eggs.)
    written by smchris since 75 days 15 hours 37 minutessmchris
  2. #2    uhh.. hello, the use of Depleted Uranium, which, as you point out, poses a significant threat to future generations, is by definition a WAR CRIME.. and GENOCIDE.

    Heck, "smashing the idols in name of god" Wolfowitz's BOTCHED occupation of Baghdad, were the US military ALLOWED LOOTERS to RAMSAKE Iraq's 4-millenium old cultural artifacts, was a war crime in itself.
    written by veracity since 75 days 11 hours 44 minutesveracity
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