Monday, May 16, 2005
Conspiracy Planet - Iraq (Nam) - Birth Defects Soar from US Depleted Uranium (DU)
Conspiracy Planet - Iraq (Nam) - Birth Defects Soar from US Depleted Uranium (DU):
by JAMES COGAN
"Birth Defects Soar from US Depleted Uranium (DU) Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq are being reported.
"Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world's attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children.
"The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
"The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in 2001, is soaring further.
"Dr Nawar Ali, a medical researcher into birth deformities at Baghdad University, told the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) last month: 'There have been 650 cases [birth deformities] in total since August 2003 reported in government hospitals. That is a 20 percent increase from the previous regime. Private hospitals were not included in the study, so the number could be higher.
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2000 Victims in Fallujah by GIULIANA SGRENA
Napalm Raid on Falluja? 73 Charred Bodies Found by GIULIANA SGRENA
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by JAMES COGAN
"Birth Defects Soar from US Depleted Uranium (DU) Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq are being reported.
"Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world's attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children.
"The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
"The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in 2001, is soaring further.
"Dr Nawar Ali, a medical researcher into birth deformities at Baghdad University, told the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) last month: 'There have been 650 cases [birth deformities] in total since August 2003 reported in government hospitals. That is a 20 percent increase from the previous regime. Private hospitals were not included in the study, so the number could be higher.
More
Other Top Stories at Conspiracy Planet
US War Crimes & Legal Case for Military Resistance by PAUL ROCKWELL
Pentagon: Photos of Soldiers in Iraq Dying in Vain by NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE
All-American Math:120,000 Iraqis Vs. Terri Schiavo by SAM HAMOD
2000 Victims in Fallujah by GIULIANA SGRENA
Napalm Raid on Falluja? 73 Charred Bodies Found by GIULIANA SGRENA
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BELLACIAO - The Democrats have No Clothes: ’Leaders’ Silent on The British Memo - Collective Bellaciao
BELLACIAO - The Democrats have No Clothes: ’Leaders’ Silent on The British Memo - Collective Bellaciao: "Just like the $9 billion ’lost’ and the 52 warnings prior to 9/11, the Democratic ’Leadership’ is silent on the most important news of the day. The current earth-shattering news is The Memo revealing that Bush and Blair agreed to go to war in April 2002, that they ’fixed the facts’ to scare us into war.
". . . Why don’t the Dem ’Leaders’ have anything to say about The Memo?
So far, a week after The Memo shocked the world, our Democratic Leadership like Bill and Hillary, Al Gore, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, John Edwards... these ’Leaders’ have all been silent regarding The Memo.
Why?
"As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
"And if you think that’s bad...
The Senate just voted 100-0 to approve the $82 billion for more war, even after The Memo revealed that the Iraq war was concocted by Bush and Blair in 2002.
"Literally, Bush and Blair were just exposed to the world as having deliberately lied to start this unjust war- and the US Senate response is to unanimously approve more war funding while completely ignoring this screaming, "hair on fire," impeachable offense.
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". . . Therefore, everyone who supported the now-exposed lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction did so willingly, including the mainstream media., and including the United States Congress.
"So, just as the US Mainstream media cannot examine the lies about Iraq without implicating themselves, so too the Congress cannot delve too deeply into the fraud that started a war without advertising their own complicity. Nobody is going to believe that Congress was honestly fooled by the obviously fraudulent evidence, no more than they believe that the mainstream media was fooled by the obviously fraudulent evidence.
"It is a conspiracy of mendacity; all are bound together by the shared lie. All protect each other for that is the only way they can protect themselves. Doubters are challenged with the question,"Do you really think all these people would agree to lie"?
"To which I answer, "Tell us again about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction."
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". . . Why don’t the Dem ’Leaders’ have anything to say about The Memo?
So far, a week after The Memo shocked the world, our Democratic Leadership like Bill and Hillary, Al Gore, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, John Edwards... these ’Leaders’ have all been silent regarding The Memo.
Why?
"As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
"And if you think that’s bad...
The Senate just voted 100-0 to approve the $82 billion for more war, even after The Memo revealed that the Iraq war was concocted by Bush and Blair in 2002.
"Literally, Bush and Blair were just exposed to the world as having deliberately lied to start this unjust war- and the US Senate response is to unanimously approve more war funding while completely ignoring this screaming, "hair on fire," impeachable offense.
comment:
". . . Therefore, everyone who supported the now-exposed lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction did so willingly, including the mainstream media., and including the United States Congress.
"So, just as the US Mainstream media cannot examine the lies about Iraq without implicating themselves, so too the Congress cannot delve too deeply into the fraud that started a war without advertising their own complicity. Nobody is going to believe that Congress was honestly fooled by the obviously fraudulent evidence, no more than they believe that the mainstream media was fooled by the obviously fraudulent evidence.
"It is a conspiracy of mendacity; all are bound together by the shared lie. All protect each other for that is the only way they can protect themselves. Doubters are challenged with the question,"Do you really think all these people would agree to lie"?
"To which I answer, "Tell us again about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction."
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Guardian | What drives support for this torturer
Guardian | What drives support for this torturer:
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What drives support for this torturer
Oil and gas ensure that the US backs the Uzbek dictator to the hilt
Craig Murray
Monday May 16, 2005
Guardian
The bodies of hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Uzbekistan are scarcely cold, and already the White House is looking for ways to dismiss them. The White House spokesman Scott McClellan said those shot dead in the city of Andijan included 'Islamic terrorists' offering armed resistance. They should, McClellan insists, seek democratic government 'through peaceful means, not through violence'.
But how? This is not Georgia, Ukraine or even Kyrgyzstan. There, the opposition parties could fight elections. The results were fixed, but the opportunity to propagate their message brought change. In Uzbek elections on December 26, the opposition was not allowed to take part at all.
. . . Take the 23 businessmen whose trial for "Islamic extremism" sparked recent events. Had the crowd not sprung them from jail, what would have awaited them? The conviction rate in criminal and political trials in Uzbekistan is over 99% - in President Karimov's torture chambers, everyone confesses.
. . . The airbase opened by the US at Khanabad is not essential to operations in Afghanistan, its claimed raison d'être. It has a more crucial role as the easternmost of Donald Rumsfeld's "lily pads" - air bases surrounding the "wider Middle East", by which the Pentagon means the belt of oil and gas fields stretching from the Middle East through the Caucasus and central Asia. A key component of this strategic jigsaw fell into place this spring when US firms were contracted to build a pipeline to bring central Asia's hydrocarbons out through Afghanistan to the Arabian sea. That strategic interest explains the recent signature of the US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement, as well as Bush's strong support for Karimov.
. . . The western news agenda has moved the dead of Andijan from the "democrat" to the "terrorist" pile. Karimov remains in power. The White House will be happy. That's enough for No 10.
· Craig Murray was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004
www.craigmurray.co.uk
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What drives support for this torturer
Oil and gas ensure that the US backs the Uzbek dictator to the hilt
Craig Murray
Monday May 16, 2005
Guardian
The bodies of hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Uzbekistan are scarcely cold, and already the White House is looking for ways to dismiss them. The White House spokesman Scott McClellan said those shot dead in the city of Andijan included 'Islamic terrorists' offering armed resistance. They should, McClellan insists, seek democratic government 'through peaceful means, not through violence'.
But how? This is not Georgia, Ukraine or even Kyrgyzstan. There, the opposition parties could fight elections. The results were fixed, but the opportunity to propagate their message brought change. In Uzbek elections on December 26, the opposition was not allowed to take part at all.
. . . Take the 23 businessmen whose trial for "Islamic extremism" sparked recent events. Had the crowd not sprung them from jail, what would have awaited them? The conviction rate in criminal and political trials in Uzbekistan is over 99% - in President Karimov's torture chambers, everyone confesses.
. . . The airbase opened by the US at Khanabad is not essential to operations in Afghanistan, its claimed raison d'être. It has a more crucial role as the easternmost of Donald Rumsfeld's "lily pads" - air bases surrounding the "wider Middle East", by which the Pentagon means the belt of oil and gas fields stretching from the Middle East through the Caucasus and central Asia. A key component of this strategic jigsaw fell into place this spring when US firms were contracted to build a pipeline to bring central Asia's hydrocarbons out through Afghanistan to the Arabian sea. That strategic interest explains the recent signature of the US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement, as well as Bush's strong support for Karimov.
. . . The western news agenda has moved the dead of Andijan from the "democrat" to the "terrorist" pile. Karimov remains in power. The White House will be happy. That's enough for No 10.
· Craig Murray was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004
www.craigmurray.co.uk
