What we did in Fallujah
March 5, 2010
UPDATE: CNN reports this story on May 11, 2010: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/fallujah-birth-defects-ra_n_571119.html
If you’re afraid of seeing and hearing the truth of who really loses in war, then don’t read this. If you’re already saddened by the tragedies of the natural disasters in Haiti or in Chile, then you really shouldn’t read this. Because this disaster, which will be happening for at least a generation, did not have to happen. It happened because of what most people now agree was and is a needless war.
And the Iraqi government is not speaking up about it because they don’t want to offend the Americans. This report was bravely made by the doctors working in the hospital that was built with American aid. With tied hands and open mouth, here’s what they had to say:
From the BBC, March 4, 2010: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8548961.stm
From the Guardian, November 13, 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects (story and video)
I checked on CNN this morning and there is no sign of the story. So, for now (and I hope only for now) it doesn’t exist in America and for Americans (including me) who are partly responsible for it. In fact, it corroborates the cases of U.S. military personnel suffering with Gulf War Syndrome and other debilitating, deforming consequences of chemical warfare. And if memory serves me correctly, we are still getting around to the idea of connecting the sickness of these soldiers to the war in Iraq.
The nay-sayers may be able to explain away the soldiers as willing participants who are suffering nobly or by choice, but I’d like to see an Independent Panel of anybody look at these kids and explain it away.
