A hidden 'legacy' of Bush's America
posted by MedfordTim 06/14/2008 02:28:50 AM EST
Long time forum participants might remember how I used to rail on about how uranium tipped weapons and the use of white phosphorous weaponry in Iraq would continue to kill long after we were gone. Well,
no one could have anticipated that we would still be twiddling our thumbs in Iraq at this late date, so it turns out I was wrong. The victims of our long term killers
couldn't wait us out; the babies are dying and being born malformed
already.
From Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail,
'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies Read it and weep.
The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing campaigns in Fallujah in 2004. After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used a year earlier in Fallujah.
In addition, depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste, were used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon admits to having used 1,200 tonnes of DU in Iraq thus far. Many doctors believe DU to be the cause of a severe increase in the incidence of cancer in Iraq, as well as among U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War and through the current occupation.
How can the use of DU and WPh
NOT be considered acts of terrorism?
Add a 36th count to that impeachment resolution and let another Bush crime be ignored by the people put in office to provide oversight of Executive Branch excesses.
