Photo: Yesterday Susan Lindauer, the life time peace and womans rights activist who had the honor of being the first non-Muslim, white Caucasian, and Woman to be arrested under the law of infamy called the Patriot Act sent me a photo of a Depleted Uranium deformed infant from Fallujah, Iraq. She begged that the photo was published, if I dared to publish it.I know Susan Lindauer well enough to know that she is deeply moved by the tragedy.
See, Susan Lindauer is human, that is why she sent the photo. I am human because it makes me cry to look at it. If you dare, try your own humanity, and if you realize that you have humanity inside yourself, which I am sure about that you do, then please act upon it and stop the unadulterated evil that makes you believe that NATO and young boys and girls from the USA, Italy, the UK, France, Qatar, and other are fighting in wars that have anything to do with honor. The honorable thing to do is to stand on the side of peace, and if necessary to die for it.
Photo from this link.
As U.S. forces pull out of Iraq, residents and officials in Falluja say they leave behind bullet-riddled homes, destroyed infrastructure and a worrying increase in birth defects and maladies in a city polluted by weapons and war chemicals.
Amir Hussain and Awfa Abdullah got married in Falluja in 2004 but their lives were turned upside by the birth of their two babies.
Their first child, a baby boy born in 2006, had brain damage and died last year. The second, a baby girl who was born in 2007, suffers from severe skin rashes and has one leg longer than the other.
"We've decided to stop having babies. We don't want any more, because it means new suffering and a new battle against new diseases," Hussain said. "It is our bad luck. Maybe because we got married in the wrong time and in the wrong place."
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In April, Iraqi lawmakers debated whether the U.S.-led battles in the city constituted genocide, but resolutions calling for prosecution went nowhere.
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Here in the US, this issue is ignored. But it is not going to go away, just like the poisoning from Agent Orange did not end when US troops left Vietnam. The biggest difference is that this poison in Falljuah and other areas of Iraq, will last for hundreds of years. The US military has left Iraq, but their poison will stay behind. Birth defects are skyrocketing in Fallujah, with one out of four babies dying before they are a week old. Two more of those four births are babies with noticeable birth defects. And the ones who are born looking healthy are likely to have serous health problems and cancers.
It is a massive, massive, massive evil that the US has done to Fallujah.
2 comments:
The use of D.U. and its effects in Fallujah, Serbia/kosovo and elsewhere is not only a massive "evil". It is also a massive war crime to systematically use weapons which kill and maim "indiscriminately". The effects of D.U. are so well documented that there is absolutely no military justification for using it. Every use of every single D.U. ammunition constitutes a war crime due to its known, long term and indiscriminate effect.
The problem we are facing is systemic due to the fact that it is impossible to have these crimes prosecuted at the ICC.
A Kuala Lumpur war crimes tribunal style court, as much moral value as it has, has just that, only moral value.
With respect to war criminals it has only one effect, comparable to lecturing a Mafia Don about the immoralty of the Heroin trade. Non - a good laugh.
The way to remedy, and in my opinion the only way to remedy the situation would be the implementation of international jurisdiction in progressive nations, combined with bilateral and multilateral guaranties of solidarity in case of diplomatic, political, economic or military sanctions against the nation which arrests, tries and/or sentences and incarcerates war criminals ( and that includes everyone who is involved in the production, sales, proliferation, and use of weapons that kill indiscriminately ).
Christof Lehmann
Maybe instead of bitching about the problems after the fact, they should have had the common sense to back off and listen to what the us told them to do. Then maybe they wouldn't have brought the use of DU on themselves. They already knew Americas gov would 'go there', especially after AO. You can't tell the king what to do, and pissant peasants get put in their place. I have no pity. These Muslims needed to be culled. The way they think and live is just too wrong. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I know I'm right. These people are heathens and I'm glad their gene pool is forever altered. They will be crippled with all kinds of diseases for generations to come, and that's just swell :)
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