Monday, January 01, 2007

Illness Takes No Break for War - 01.01.2007

"The United States’ various wars in Iraq have already seen the birth of one new disease, Gulf War Syndrome. GWS has been primarily identified in veterans from the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Besides this sickness, there have been countless cases of what is now known as Depleted Uranium Sickness, an enormous rise in cancers, particularly in young children, as well as an explosion of other diseases.

Juwan is just one young girl among many sick Iraqi children who are failing to find treatment in Iraq today. Since the conclusion of the 1991 war and the initiation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, illness was rampant due to the crushing sanctions imposed by the United Nations and backed primarily by the US.

Prior to the 1991 war, healthcare, literacy, employment, and many other measures of a country’s development were some of the finest in the world."
Alive in Baghdad
I find the reporting on this story to be lacking. They present no proof of any DU as a cause for the girls illness, there're not even a doctor that said that, just a father struggling to help his daughter. And the other claim of Iraqis progress prior to 91, well most of the dictatorships makes these claims. You can hear the same from castro's Cuba, but we Cubans know it's all hype, and no where near the truth of the matter. So why should we just believe anything coming out of saddams Iraq?

1 Comments:

Blogger madtom said...

From the WHO report:

Study of DU in Kosovo
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/en/Report_WHO_depleted_uranium_Eng.pdf

5, Assessment of health info.....

Clinical observations on cancer
The health professionals interviewed in Gjakove/Djakova, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Peje/Pec, Prishine/Prishtina, Prizren and the southern part of Mitrovica/Mitrovica had not observed any changes in cases of consultations in their service. In some places the director of the hospital has instructed the staff to pay particular attention to diseases suspected to be related to the armed conflict.

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