Iraq’s environmental crisis


	Iraq’s environmental crisis

Rasmus

11-3-2007 2:31 PM

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human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their
congressional allies sent our troops into Iraq to topple Saddam’s regime, they
not only ordered these men and women to commit crimes against humanity, they
also commanded them to perpetrate crimes against nature.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2581.shtml">In the early
1990s, the U.S. drowned at least 80 crude oil ships to the bottom of the
Persian Gulf</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2581.shtml">Vast
crude oil slicks formed, killing an unknown quantity of aquatic life and sea
birds while wrecking havoc on local fishing and tourist communities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2581.shtml">tons of shell casings, bullets and bomb fragments laced with
depleted uranium. In all, the U.S. hit Iraqi targets with more than 970
radioactive bombs and missiles.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2581.shtml">More than 15 years later, the health consequences from this
radioactive bombing campaign are beginning to come into focus. And they are
dire. Iraqi physicians call it “the white death” -- leukemia.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85AEA20B-9319-47F9-99AC-06485765E4D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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