what has been said by John Pilger and others.
They see how the US fucks its enemies by
dropping nuclear waste on them. The survivors
get cancer at a rate of 50% and the US just
sits there like nothing happened.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia
That is well and truly fucked.
And the W.H.O. just doesn't want to get
involved. Well, fuck them, too.
sorry for the cussing, but those fuckers are killing
children through latent cancer.
Please read: The Guardian
We've
moved on from the Iraq war – but Iraqis don't have that choice
Like
characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US have arrogantly turned
their backs and left a country in ruins
John Pilger
Sunday 26 May 2013 18.00
BST
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The
dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert's fingers. It gets
in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds,
consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to Dr Jawad
Al-Ali, "the seeds of our death". An internationally respected cancer
specialist at the Sadr teaching hospital in Basra, Dr Ali told me that in 1999,
and today his warning is irrefutable. "Before the Gulf war," he said,
"we had two or three cancer
patients a month. Now we have 30 to 35
dying every month. Our studies indicate that 40 to 48% of the population in
this area will get cancer: in five years' time to begin with, then long after.
That's almost half the population. Most
of my own family have it, and we have no history of the disease. It is like
Chernobyl here; the genetic effects are new to us; the mushrooms grow huge; even the grapes in my garden have mutated and
can't be eaten."
Along
the corridor, Dr Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of
the children she was trying to save. Many had neuroblastoma. "Before the
war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years," she said.
"Now we have many cases, mostly with no family history. I have studied
what happened in Hiroshima. The
sudden increase of such congenital
malformations is the same."
Among
the doctors I interviewed, there was little doubt that depleted uranium shells
used by the Americans and British in the Gulf war were the cause. A US military
physicist assigned to clean up the Gulf war battlefield across the border in
Kuwait said, "Each round fired by an A-10 Warhog attack aircraft carried
over 4,500 grams of solid uranium.
Well over 300 tons of DU was used. It was a form of nuclear warfare."
Although
the link with cancer is always difficult
to prove absolutely, the Iraqi doctors argue that "the epidemic speaks for
itself". The British oncologist Karol
Sikora, chief of the World Health Organisation's cancer programme in the
1990s, wrote in the British Medical Journal: "Requested radiotherapy equipment, chemotherapy drugs and analgesics are
consistently blocked by United States and British advisers [to the Iraq sanctions committee]." He told
me, "We were
specifically told [by the WHO] not to talk about the whole Iraq
business. The WHO is not an organisation that likes to get involved in
politics."
