Billo_Really
Litre of the Band
While we remember the fallen on Memorial Day here, it's like Chernobyl there.
Iraqis are suffering through a 30-40% increase in cancer rates that are a direct result of the over 300 tons of depleted uranium munitions dropped on that country by us and the British.
Another doctor said..."Before the Gulf war,...we had two or three cancer patients a month. Now we have 30 to 35 dying every month. Our studies indicate that 40 to 48% of the population in this area will get cancer: in five years' time to begin with, then long after. That's almost half the population. Most...have no history of the disease. It is like Chernobyl here; the genetic effects are new to us; the mushrooms grow huge; even the grapes in my garden have mutated and can't be eaten."
- Dr Jawad Al-Ali
According to a US military physicist assigned to clean up the Gulf war battefield in Kuwait said..."Before the war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years,...[n]ow we have many cases, mostly with no family history. I have studied what happened in Hiroshima. The sudden increase of such congenital malformations is the same."
- Dr Ginan Ghalib Hassen
What we did to that country is just unconscionable."Each round fired by an A-10 Warhog attack aircraft carried over 4,500 grams of solid uranium. Well over 300 tons of DU was used. It was a form of nuclear warfare."
The best thing we can do to honor our dead this Memorial Day, is to end these fucking wars, cut the defense budget in half, close all our bases around the world and respect the UN Charter.
Only then, will this country become great again.