Toxic Exposure – the Environmental Reality of Wars

By: Thursday July 1, 2010 7:47 pm

Burn pits and depleted uranium weaponry used in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused a whole generation of Veterans to become ill and disabled and created areas to toxic wastelands

US Attacks in Fallujah in 2004 and Basra in 1991 Both Result in Delayed Onset of Huge Increases in Birth Defects

By: Thursday March 4, 2010 7:51 am

In Basra, birth defects showed a large increase about seven years after the 1991 US attack, reaching about 10 times higher by ten years after the attack. Now, around six years after the 2004 US attack on Marjah, the birth defect rate there is rising, as well.

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