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“The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”

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Caldicott goes on to say the two Gulf wars “have been nuclear wars because they have scattered nuclear material across the land, and people---particularly children--- are condemned to die of malignancy and congenital disease essentially for eternity.”

Because of the extremely long half-life of uranium 238, one of the radioactive elements in the shells fired, “the food, the air, and the water in the cradle of civilization have been forever contaminated,” Caldicott explained.

Uranium is a heavy metal that enters the body via inhalation into the lung or via ingestion into the GI tract. It is excreted by the kidney, where, if the dose is high enough, it can induce renal failure or kidney cancer. It also lodges in the bones where it causes bone cancer and leukemia, and it is excreted in the semen, where it mutates genes in the sperm, leading to birth deformities.

Nuclear contamination is spreading around the world, Caldicott adds, with heaviest concentrations in regions within a 1,000-mile radius of Baghdad and Afghanistan.

These are, notably, northern India, southern Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tibet, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Gulf emirates, and Jordan.

“Downwind from the radioactive devastation in Iraq, Israel is also suffering from large increases in breast cancer, leukemia and childhood diabetes,” Moret asserts.

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Anyone know if it is the same ammunitions used in the Lebanon - Israel war?

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Have you seen if DIME news as made it into any Canadian or American media as of yet?

ETA: My searches of Canadian outlets haven't turned up anything... So far all I've found to sift through are articles that keep using 'stop on a dime' references.

[ 22 November 2007: Message edited by: Noise ]

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How badly are Jordan and Lebanon contaminated?

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[QB]So basically the entire arab section of the middle east has been poisoned?

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the poisoning is further than that. since we're talking about dust, how it spreads depends on weather patterns, prevailing winds, etc.

since the start of the Iraq War, England has measured a four-fold increase in radiation, in the atmosphere.

Israel cheers on the Iraq war, but they're not too far away from Iraq. it's not like the DU dust stops politely at the border.

hundreds of tons of DU have been used by the US in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia. (note that Iran is between 2 of those countries.) a 25 mm DU shell turns into dust upon impact with a target. it has a self-sharpening characteristic that increases its armor-piercing capabilities, compared to lead.

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Canada supplies the US with much of the DU for its war machine.

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can you provide additional references ? i didn't know Canada had that many nuclear reactors. i thought the DU was a by-product of nuclear reactor operation.

it looks like one of the things Canada supplies to the US is uranium.

http://www.peace.ca/depleteduranium.htm

note - some countries, Finland, for example, have nuclear power plants, and store their nuclear waste, instead of poisoning the world with it.

if there's any one nation that has proven they "can't handle nuclear" - it's the USA.

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who's going to finance that kind of study?

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George sorros?

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If Iraq is completely toxic, woudn't that mean that Iraqi oil is to a certain extent polluted with DU?

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If Iraq is completely toxic, woudn't that mean that Iraqi oil is to a certain extent polluted with DU?

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Probably more naturally ocurring uranium in the coal we fire our power stations with.[/QB]

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with China & the US both relying more on coal, it's the mercury in the coal i'm concerned about.

which brings us to the topic of Issue Fatigue.

[ 24 November 2007: Message edited by: Abdul_Maria ]