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Is Fallujah, Iraq our economic penance? Oh you betcha!

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Getting back to the toxicity in Fallujah and as reported by The Independent, one can read " Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents."

Yes, America, your tax dollars paid for all of this during the Bush administration. Are you happy now?

While many on my side of the political aisle say that Bush should be brought up on war crimes charges because he sanctioned water boarding, in a past article as it relates to Fallujah, Iraq, I wrote: "In the investigative story, produced by Maurizio Torrealta, dramatic footage is shown revealing the effects of the bombardment on civilians, women and children, some of whom were surprised in their sleep. The investigation will also broadcast documentary proof of the use in Iraq of a new napalm formula called MK77. The use of the incendiary substance on civilians is forbidden by a 1980 UN treaty. The use of chemical weapons is forbidden by a treaty which the US signed in 1997" I then went onto write: "So, if the use of these chemical weapons is forbidden by a treaty we signed under Clinton: Isn't Bush committing a crime now by using these same weapons of mass destruction?"

So, I ask now, where are the war crimes charges now when it comes to the prosecution of the Iraq War and its chief enforcer, former Pres. George W. Bush? In my opinion through a bill of lies, he created a holocaust in Fallujah, Iraq. Yet, no one within the mainstream American media is focused on that fact.

It was both cowardly and politically expedient upon GWB to release his book after the midterm elections.

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I am a writer who currently writes pieces for my own blog http://www.mary-macelveen.blogspot.com I have been published by Buzzflash.com, TheLiberalPatriot.org and MikeHersh.com. I was a guest on the Jay Diamond Radio Show on WRKO in Boston and have (more...)
 
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