Democracy Now!
"In part two of our interview, 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 are 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 that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on 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, who are struggling to
survive without government aid, a majority of them living in Baghdad. Click
here to watch part 1 of the interview......"
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