Has Iraq been liberated?

[kid a]

Shrubby has been hitting that word, LIBERATED Iraq, hard in his latest blubbering appearences.

Has it been liberated?

[berni_mccoy]

1. Yes, Iraq has been liberated...

FROM THEIR OIL!

[Kikosexy2]

2. More like...

obliberated to pieces...

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Liberated from their health.

THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF DU WEAPONS IN IRAQ by Thomas Fasy, MD PhD

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I would now like to present some epidemiologic data from the Basra governate in the south of Iraq. In February 1991, more than 300 tons (possibly much more than 300 tons) of D.U. weapons were used in South of Iraq. After 5-6 year latent periods, increases in childhood cancers and birth defects were documented in the Basra governate. The most recent data indicate a four fold increase in pediatric malignancies and a seven fold increase in congenital malformations compared to 1990, the year preceeding the war.



On this map, we can see the areas contaminated with D.U. weapons in the 1991 war and in the 2003 war.




The epidemiologic data, that I will present were reported by Drs. Alim Yacoub and Jenan Hassan.



This graph presents the changing incidence rate was approximately three cases of congenital malformations per one thousand births.



This rate fluctuated considerably until 1998 when it began to rise sharply. By 2001, the rate was more than 22 cases per thousand births, more than a seven fold increase compared to 1990. The next graph depicts the changing incidence rates of all childhood cancers and of leukemia (the most common childhood cancer) in the Basra governate.



The zero level represents the incidence rate for 1990. The incidence rates for total childhood cancers and for leukemias rose significantly between 1995 and 1998 and then began to increase sharply in 1999. In this graph, leukemia patients in the Basrah governate are seperated into three age groups: those diagnosed with leukemia before age 5, those diagnosed between age 5 and 9, and those diagnosed between ages 10 and 15. This graph shows a striking increase in the number of leukemia cases in children younger than five. In 1990, 2 children under five were diagnosed with leukemia; In 2002, 53 children under five were diagnosed with leukemia.



SNIP

Nonetheless, uranium is a known carcinogen and a known inducer of birth defects. Consequently, its dispersal into the environment in a form that is so readily internalized, is at the very least, profoundly reckless.

Complete presentation posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4124449

[Radio_Guy]

4. Liberated from life

More Iraqis have died since Bush invaded three years ago than the entire time Saddam Hussein has been in power. And more will happen in the current civil war.

[Saphire]

5. not from us.