Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq
with Mass Displacement & Epidemic
Birth Defects and Cancers

Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus.

Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: "They’re extremely hard to bear witness to.

But it’s something that we all need to pay attention to ...

What this has generated is, from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah surpassing even those in the wake of the Japanese cities where nuclear bombs were dropped at the end of World War II."

Jamail has also reported on the refugee crisis of more than one million displaced Iraqis still inside the country. They are struggling to survive without government aid, a majority of them living in Baghdad.

Ed: If you can think of the worst birth defect imaginable, these babies are born with many times worse. In fact, the defects are unimaginable. The most disgusting sci-fi movie hasn’t thought of the horror unfolding in Fallujah. Bush and Cheney are responsible for this, but so are we. Voting has consequences. Every voting American is guilty. This, in the name of stealing Iraq’s oil. Congratulations, voters! Go to Democracy Now! if you dare to see what misery we have brought to the “civilized” world. And pray. Pray for forgiveness.