2014-10-23 IRAQ: Massive Depleted Uranium contamination!

2014-10-23 IRAQ: Massive Depleted Uranium contamination!
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The US purported to invade Iraq to protect against non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction. In the process, the US made, for the first time in warfare's history, massive use of Depleted Uranium - a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
What could be the rationale behind the use of Depleted Uranium in warfare??? jz
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Dahr Jamail: Iraqi Doctors Call US Depleted Uranium Use "Genocide" :
Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the first Gulf War in 1991, the country's rate of cancer cases 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
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26703-iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide

Dahr Jamail | Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use "Genocide"

Contamination from depleted uranium munitions is causing sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.

TRUTH-OUT.ORG|BY DAHR JAMAIL