A known problem (click here)
However, according to Wim Zwijnenburg, policy advisor for security and disarmament for PAX, a Dutch pro-peace organization, and author of the paper “Laid to Waste: Depleted uranium contaminated military scrap in Iraq,” the U.S. is aware of the dangers of depleted uranium because the country has spent millions safeguarding its bases and military personnel from it.As of 1999, military regulations on how to deal with vehicles contaminated with depleted uranium have been implemented, and in 2005, the General Accounting Office alleged that the Department of Defense was not monitoring the soil in Iraq to ascertain exposure to hazardous materials by American service members. At the time, however, a number of states, Congress members and military service organizations were actively challenging the Defense Department’s assertions that depleted uranium had minimal effect on the lives of the Iraq War veterans claiming depleted uranium poisoning....
Iraqis could not have nuclear material for medical use under a UN Resolution, but, could have their soils contaminated for the benefit of an illegal US war.
13 October 2014
By Thomas Gaist
Demolition of Iraqi buildings with a US tank, many of which used depleted uranium shells.
In a report presented (click here) at the University of Michigan last Wednesday, “The epidemic of birth defects in Iraq and the duty of public health researchers,” Dr. Muhsin Al Sabbak, a gynecologist from Basra Maternity Hospital, and Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicology researcher, reviewed the ever-growing mountain of data showing that rates of cancer, child cancer and birth defects (BD) have reached historically unprecedented levels in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities since the 2003 US invasion....
As a rule the wars of the USA result in veterans having a higher cancer rate than the average American. I want to know what the cancer rate among Iraq War Veterans is and what is being done about it?
The people of Iraq may very well be better off in refugee camps than their homes.