The Victims of War

Above: Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves.



Above: Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves.



Above: Severe malformation of face. This condition is sometimes refered to as 'Zyklopie.'

HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH?

These Iraqi children have had enough war, too!!

They are suffering from birth defects resulting from their parents' exposure to radioactive dust from exploded American and British shells manufactured with depleted uranium.

What is depleted uranium? It's essentially nuclear waste. While the term 'depleted' implies it isn't particularly dangerous, in fact, this waste product of the nuclear industry is 'conveniently' disposed of by producing deadly weapons.

Depleted uranium is chemically toxic. It is an extremely dense, hard metal, and can cause chemical poisoning to the body in the same way as can lead or any other heavy metal. However, depleted uranium is also radiologically hazardous, as it spontaneously burns on impact, creating tiny aerosolised glass particles which are small enough to be inhaled. These uranium oxide particles emit all types of radiation, alpha, beta and gamma, and can be carried in the air over long distances.

Depleted uranium was first used on a large scale in military combat during the 1991 Gulf War, and has since been used in Bosnia in 1995, in the Balkans war of 1999 and, most recently, in the 2003 Iraq war.

These children now have to live with our hasty decisions to load our weapons up with depleted uranium and bomb the countries they're born into. This is SERIOUS AND VERY REAL, people, and not even the top public official in the United States can admit our most recent invasion of Iraq was wrong. LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS--look at what our government's decisions do to people!

If you didn't previously experience even a shred of doubt about war and, more specifically, the 2003 war in Iraq, ask yourself what the children in the photos above think of war.