DEPLETED URANIUM THE CENSORED STORY
A SHOUT OUT TO CIVILIAN DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS!
DU is covered in other parts of the world but not in the US. I wonder why? The latest coverage talks not just about the children of Iraq but there parents and adults in Iraq. Interesting they talked about early age cancers and multiple cancers in individuals this is not the norm! This is exactly what got me interested after I came home and started communicating with other veterans, seeing multiple forms of cancers in veterans and not mets to other parts of the body was what was the first red flag I flew. I called on several oncologist I knew and they asked me why I was calling and I told them of my concerns and some of the cancers that were reported, they were extremely interested to say the least! I wish some of these oncologists that end up seeing gulf war veterans would publish case reports of the cases they have seen in the oncology journals! Come to think of it why didn’t they do that with the atomic veterans and the Agent Orange veterans? I am calling on doctors civilians that are seeing veterans to start filing case reports in the journals! Where is your moral conscious and duty as physicians? Let’s open up the doors doctors and medical professionals in civilian life! Lets hear what you are seeing with gulf war veterans and how many have died of other conditions. If you care about your veterans maybe that is what you can do to help, no matter what speciality you are!
Inside Iraq (Al Jazeera) addressed the rising cancer rates in Iraq:
Jasim al-Azzawi: Dr. Jawad al-Ali, you were also a member of a research team in Iraq, especially in the south, and you have seen the deformities and the defects among newly born babies in Iraq. How bad is that?
Dr. Jawad al-Ali: You know, depleted uranium, it’s not only a cancer inducing factor but also it might effect the chromosomes whether in the husband or the mother of a child. And many, many children are born with deformities, with loss of limbs, with a big head, with deformed legs and the rate of this — these deformities is increasing about seven times since 1991until 2002. And also another phenomena we noticed here that families cluster — cluster of cancer in families — a husband and a wife are effected. And many families, I got their pictures with me. The other phenomena is the appearance of double and triple cancers. That is three cancers in one patient or two cancers in the same patient. These phenomena are very strange for us. I haven’t seen it before. Because I worked in Basra for about 39 years. And I haven’t seen such cases of cancer [before]. The other thing is the change of pattern of cancer as said by Dr. Busby. We have a change in the pattern that is the cancers of elderly people appearing now in a younger age group. And this is surprising. Even the breast cancer which is disease of middle and elderly ladies now appearing at the age of 20.
Jasim al-Azzawi: Let me, Mr. Busby, in the 1991 war, most of the fighting was done outside the centers of population, out of the big cities. But in 2003, a great majority of the war, of the battles, actually happened in centers of population. In 1991, we started to see the effect of depleted uranium almost two years or three years after that immediately. Are we going to witness a dramatic rise later on, even in places like Baghdad?
Christopher Busby: I believe you are. And the way in which this works is that you get an immediate genetic shock and then you get a build up of an effect over a longer period of time. But the other thing is that if you already have cause — genetic damage — in the first Gulf War, then those people will be more likely to get cancer as a result of a second hit in the second Gulf War. So-so what you’ve got here, I am afraid, is that, in my prediction, there’s going to be a massive increase in cancer and a massive increase in birth defects because this material is one of the most dangerous genetic damaging material that has ever — that exists on earth because it binds to the DNA and it focuses radiation to that part of the body where it’s most dangerous, where it causes the most damage — for inheritable defects, as Dr. al-Ali says, for cancer also, as he says. So I’m afraid that the whole genetic makeup of the Iraqi population — and probably a lot of the Gulf War veterans who fought there to, from America and from the United Kingdom also — will be suffering as a result of these exposures.
It was a subject Jalal Ghazi was covering as well in “Cancer – The Deadly Legacy Of The Invasion Of Iraq” (CounterCurrents):
Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer.
Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment.
Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment.Here are a few examples. In Falluja, which was heavily bombarded by the US in 2004, as many as 25% of new- born infants have serious abnormalities, including congenital anomalies, brain tumors, and neural tube defects in the spinal cord.
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