The consequences of a US war crime

[pragmatic_chimp]

Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima

The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004.

According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia

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[pragmatic_chimp]

Yes, I've seen some of those photos myself. They are very sad.

U.S. war criminals should indeed be prosecuted. But, instead, they're just going to die in their beds, happy and old and rich and surrounded by their healthy children.

Excuses me while I go break something....

[haruhiko]

Petraeus, in turn, was replaced at Central Command by General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who played a key planning role in the US assault on Fallujah in 2004. Mattis revels in killing, telling a public gathering in 2005 “it’s fun to shoot some people.... You know, it’s a hell of a hoot.”

[filbypott]

HTML was invented by Nazis. >:|

[fenris_lorsrai]

Another possibility, besides depleted uranium ammo, is that the large scale burning of debris and military waste may be fueling the problem. OR may be making a bad situation even worse. KBR and Hailburton have been burning waste in open pits all over Iraq including unexploded ammo, debris, batteries, etc. So if you're in the smoke plume, you'll be inhaling burning asbestos, dioxins, rat poison, and various carcinogens.

This article is specifically about the burn pits at Balad but the larger medical study included 15 or so sites around Iraq (Balad is not far from Fallujah, so likely Fallujah has same issues).

Depleted uranium rounds may be a contributing factor, but large scale burning at start of invasion and ongoing since then is probably also a major factor.

[fenris_lorsrai]

website on some more issues with burn pits which are also used in Afghanistan. A lot of the stuff there is anecdotal, but that's a LOT of anecdotes about it causing illness and cancers or all sorts.

[trf_chan]

Yeah...my dad's cousin got cancer and died shortly after spending an extended period of time working in Iraq. :/ We did think it was suspicious, especially considering that there's almost no history of cancer at all in our family.

All I can think of

[leprofessional]

Well we should thank baby Jesus that Karma isn't real and just some batty Buddhist bullshit. Oh and that we weren't given birth to in eye-raq.

[paulnolan]

This is so awful. :(

Oh, and in before squidb0i shows up to kvetch about the source.