10-15-2012, 03:32 PM
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Pops]
I have a hard time believing, coming from a third world nation, this is anything more than better medical care and reporting.
This is hardly news.
Higher birth defects and cancer rates in Iraq's most battle-torn cities were reported pretty quickly after we invaded and both the UN and various NGOs started tracking them in 2005. There have been dozens if not hundreds of studies on the subject and while causation is hard to prove, the cancer clusters in and around the cities that we've bombed seem pretty damning.
exactly. Google "depleted uranium" and read on.