(This is just a heads-up post, no analysis, no brave call to arms, just a morbid report that is hard to pass on to you.)

What are we doing to the people of the world?

A major study released by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health [PDF link] shows that the depleted uranium and white phosphorus used by the US in the 'shock and awe' campaign has left devastating health calamities in their wake.

700,000 people were 'allowed' to leave beforehand, but: 

"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," a report by The Independent noted. "They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents."

"In Fallujah the rate of leukemia is 38 times higher, the childhood cancer rate is 12 times higher, and breast cancer is 10 times more common than in populations in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait," researchers write. "Heightened levels of adult lymphoma and brain tumors were also reported. At 80 deaths out of every 1,000 births, the infant mortality rate in Fallujah is more than five times higher than in Egypt and Jordan, and eight times higher than in Kuwait."

The study's data was gathered by passing out surveys to 711 households in Fallujah. From those homes, a total of 4,843 individuals responded.

 There is no way we will ever be able to make these atrocities right.

There is some suspicion that these toxins were what caused 'Gulf War Syndrome' in so many of our soldiers.

I am taking these studies as valid, and assume they are, while wishing they were not.

  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0724/study-health-effects-felt-fallujah-widespread-nuking-hiroshima-nagasaki