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General News    H3'ed 9/24/19

Iraqi Children Test Positive for Depleted Uranium

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War Criminals, yes Carter too.  He started the war in Afghanistan.
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The violence of war continues through pollution long after the carnage ends and the troops return to their home country.

Independent researchers have found that the bodies of Iraqi children born with congenital disabilities, such as heart disease and malformed limbs, near a former United States air base in southern Iraq are contaminated with high levels of radioactive heavy metals associated with toxic depleted uranium pollution leftover from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The findings appear to bolster claims made by Iraqi doctors who observed high rates of congenital disabilities in babies born in areas that experienced heavy fighting when the USA attacked it. 

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Iran, pronounced Eeran NOT Eye-ran...".> Hint: Italy: Eetaly not Eye-taly. Iran has been in the region properly termed 'West Asia' -- not the 'Middle East' for thousand of years. (more...)
 

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