This is the tenth anniversay of the Iraq invasion. Among the many crimes committed against the Iraqi people is the legacy of birth defects and cancers found among children, the real victims of this war. According to Democray Now's interview with Al Jazeera's reporter, Dahr Jamail, this legacy was allegedly caused by the large use of depleted uranium and white phosphorous by the U.S. military. Jamail says, "What this has generated is, from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War 11."
I saw the interview on Link TV, and became sickened to listen to the details of the malformations and cancers. More than Hiroshima and Nagasaki! This is a inhumane. Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and other architects of that war should be hauled before the international court in the Hague for the crimes they committed against these children, their mothers, their fathers, and the Iraqi population. The reasons given for that war were entirely bogus. And Iraq is worse off now than it was under Saddam Hussein.
Real reparatons, not paltry sums, should be given to every Iraqi citizen. It will do some good, although it will surely not make up for all the suffering they have endured. On this tenth anniversary all people who love peace should vow that they will do everything possible to try to stop another war like this one. Not in my name.
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