And you and I paid for it all.
The aforementioned study found that the cancer rate "had increased fourfold since before the US attack" and that the forms of cancer in Fallujah are "similar to those found among the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, who were exposed to intense fallout radiation."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Yeah, Americans paid for those bombs, too.
In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 newborn babies:
- 24 percent were dead within the first seven days
- 75 percent of the dead babies were classified as deformed
Cockburn writes of a "12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighboring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait."
Dig this: After 2005, thanks to this "major mutagenic event" (DU), the proportion of girls born in Fallujah has increased sharply likely because "girls have a redundant X-chromosome and can therefore absorb the loss of one chromosome through genetic damage," explains Eley.
And you and I paid for it all.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
3
2
1
