OscailtThe Iraq War ten years on: A turning point for US imperialismToday 19th March is 10th Anniversary
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One aspect of the Iraq War that tends to not get the coverage is deserves concerns the massive increase in cancer rates and birth defects. This one here is from Dahr Jamail.<br />
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- Fallujah, Iraq - Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.<br />
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Many prominent doctors and scientists contend that DU contamination is also connected to the recent emergence of diseases that were not previously seen in Iraq, such as new illnesses in the kidney, lungs, and liver, as well as total immune system collapse. DU contamination may also be connected to the steep rise in leukaemia, renal, and anaemia cases, especially among children, being reported throughout many Iraqi governorates.<br />
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There has also been a dramatic jump in miscarriages and premature births among Iraqi women, particularly in areas where heavy US military operations occurred, such as Fallujah.<br />
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Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people. Current estimates show the increasing trend continuing.<br />
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Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness the aforementioned steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems.<br />
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Today in Fallujah, residents are reporting to Al Jazeera that many families are too scared to have children, as an alarming number of women are experiencing consecutive miscarriages and deaths with critically deformed and ill newborns.<br />
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Dr Samira Alani, a pediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges since 2005.<br />
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"We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities, both in numbers you cannot imagine," Alani told Al Jazeera at her office in the hospital last year, while showing countless photos of shocking birth defects.<br />
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Full text at the link belowWSWS did not defend Mubarakhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103439#comment2950392013-03-20T12:40:16+00:00Felix QuigleyWhere is the difference between the war on Saddam by Jihad supported by Imperial...Where is the difference between the war on Saddam by Jihad supported by Imperialism and the war on Mubarak or Gadhafi by the Jihad supported by Imperialism?<br />
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But in Egypt the wsws were on the side of Obama!!!Re: WSWS did not defend Mubarakhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103439#comment2950452013-03-20T21:41:14+00:00TAnd can you cite some examples of that because it is new to me. Besides whatever...And can you cite some examples of that because it is new to me. Besides whatever else they might have said about anything else, what they say about the Iraq War is not contestable.<br />
wsws not a Trotskyist organizationhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103439#comment2950472013-03-21T07:28:17+00:00Felix QuigleyNot what they call themselves...it is what they do
google wsws mubarak
first up...Not what they call themselves...it is what they do<br />
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google wsws mubarak<br />
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"The World Socialist Web Site hails the downfall of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. There is justified jubilation in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, as millions of Egyptian workers and youth celebrate their historic victory."<br />
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And goes on endlessly with this rubbish:<br />
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"These extraordinary events are a turning point not only for Egypt, but for the entire world. They have shown the immense social power of the working class, unanswerably refuting claims that the collapse of the Soviet Union signified the “end of history”—that is, the end of class struggle as a factor in human affairs. The victorious heroism of the masses of Egypt in the face of torture, arrests and repression are an inspiration for workers and youth around the globe.<br />
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Mubarak’s resignation was a humiliating about-face from his speech, delivered less than 24 hours earlier, in which he provocatively refused to step down. It was also a blow to the military brass, which issued a statement on Friday morning supporting the transfer of authority to Vice President Omar Suleiman, the longtime head of the Egyptian intelligence agency.<br />
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It is a devastating setback for the Arab bourgeoisie, which fears the spread of revolution beyond Egypt; for the Israeli state, whose policies of repression and military terror depend on the suppression of working class struggle both in the Arab countries and in Israel itself; and above all for US imperialism, which for 31 years was the main financier and backer of the Mubarak dictatorship. Washington has been complicit in all the regime’s crimes, including the widespread use of torture against political opponents.<br />
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The revolutionary upheavals gripping North Africa are the first major response of the world working class to the conditions created by the global economic crisis of capitalism. In bringing down Mubarak, workers in Egypt have launched the first salvo in a world struggle against economic exploitation, the suppression of democratic rights, and social inequality defended by governments not only in Egypt, but around the world.<br />
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As significant as the resignation of Mubarak is, however, it is only the beginning of this struggle. Mubarak may be gone, but the regime remains, with power in the hands of the officer corps that has been the linchpin of the capitalist dictatorship in Egypt for decades. The masses know they have only begun to settle accounts with the exploiters—the secret police, the venal Egyptian generals, and Mubarak himself."<br />
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Mubarak as with Nasser and Qutb had his boot on the neck of the Fascist Muslim Brotherhood. <br />
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And they have taken over in Egypt with the most serious implications for Christians and women especially<br />
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It was not revolution...it was counter revolution.<br />
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There were dozens of articles like this on wsws. being devoted to hamas et al they totally downplayed the Islam menace to the Egyptian lovers of freedom.<br />
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Only one policy was possible...defend Mubarak, they didn't do it!<br />
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