From: The Daily Bell
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 – by Staff Report
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects. New study links increase with military action by Western forces ... It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war. Fallujah's homes and businesses were left shattered; hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed. Its residents changed the name of their "City of Mosques" to "the polluted city" after the United States launched two massive military campaigns eight years ago. Now, one month before the World Health Organisation reveals its view on the legacy of the two battles for the town, a new study reports a "staggering rise" in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war. High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded. Even more disturbingly, they appear to be occurring at an increasing rate in children born in Fallujah, about 40 miles west of Baghdad. – UK Independent
Dominant Social Theme: We did what we had to do but no harm was done.
Free-Market Analysis: People in the West would be shocked to know that their taxes had funded the wholesale poisoning of parts of the Middle East and Afghanistan but increasingly, that's how it seems.
We've written about it before numerous times. The culprit is depleted uranium and the powers-that-be have been "studying" for years and years the possibility that the radioactive dust from NATO and US weapons is a deadly poison.
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