Fallujah!
another saigon (138 posts) Tue Aug-10-10 10:26 PM
Original message
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fallujah .....
Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 10:28 PM by another saigon
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26112.h...
By Robert Koehler
August 09, 2010 "Huffington Post" -- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . . .
And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started using them.
Along with whatever else we did to Fallujah -- exacted collective punishment on a defiant city (a war crime) in November 2004, killed thousands of civilians, shattered the infrastructure (nearly six years later, the sewage system hasn't been repaired and waste flows in the streets) -- we also, apparently, nuked the city, leaving a legacy of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality and genetic abnormality.
Freedom isn't free. Remember when that was the go-to phrase of the citizen war zealots among us, their all-purpose rebuttal when those of us appalled by this insane war cited civilian casualty stats? Discussion over. Thought stops here.
This is the power of language. Call it "war" and along come glory, duty, courage, sacrifice: the best of humanity writ large. The word is impenetrable; it sets the heart in motion; God makes an appearance, blesses the troops, blesses the weapons. Operation Iraqi Freedom: They'll greet us with open arms.
At what point do we learn our lesson, that "war" is a moral cesspool of horrific consequences, especially, and most troublingly, unintended ones?
Thus last November, a group of British and Iraqi doctors petitioned the U.N. to investigate the alarming rise in birth defects at Fallujah's hospitals. "Young women in Fallujah," they wrote, ". . . are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukemias."
The official U.S. response was that the doctors' letter was anecdotal: There have been no studies to verify that anything is truly amiss in Fallujah, beyond the devastation caused by U.S. troops and bombs. Now that has changed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8918254aquart (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-10-10 10:29 PM
Response to Original message
1. Nuked it how?
FBaggins (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-10-10 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Just another BS "depleted uranium is a WMD" thread.
File it along with chemtrails and similar cr@p.
In the spirit of Frank's naming convention I hereby dub the following DUmbass, "The Squealing Public Louse Primitive"
WHEN CRABS ROAR (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-10-10 10:57 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. Just another ****ed up war that shouldn't have started.
Do you notice an interesting dynamic here?
Without belief that depleted uranium shells, seldom used because hajji doesn't ride in tanks, and other such nonsense then much of their complaints against the war just evaporate as just being so much emotional vapors. Liberals NEED crimes. The absence of crimes infuriates them because it robs them of their power.
The depleted uranium canard is so unsupportable the author has to lump in calling the assault to retake Fallujah collective punishment even though the city residents were warned for weeks before the assault went down. This is just how desperate they are.
