Iraq, 15 years on: A toxic US legacy

Fallout from the US assault continues to deform and kill Iraqis long after the conflict has seemingly ended

Fifteen years ago this month, the United States spearheaded a fantastically bloody war on Iraq as part of its ongoing effort to ensure the Iraqi nation's perpetual misery.

Straight-up carnage aside, there were some other more trivial yet still "spectacularly unsavoury" results of the invasion, as veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn recalls: "Soon after US occupation officials took over Saddam Hussein’s palace complex in central Baghdad as their headquarters ... the lavatories in the palaces all became blocked and began to overflow. Mobile toilets were rapidly shipped into the country and installed in the palace gardens."

Increasing rates of cancer and birth defects
As it turned out, the Americans had failed to read up on bathroom traditions in the Middle East, or to realise that in many parts of the world, defecation is not accompanied by massive quantities of toilet paper.

While such visuals were no doubt also metaphorically relevant, given the excrement that passes for US policy in the region, the fallout of the war on Iraq has been toxic in far more extraordinarily pernicious ways.

Consider, for instance, Cockburn’s 2010 article for The Independent, headlined "Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'". In it, he outlined the results of a study by British scientist Chris Busby and colleagues Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi on the increase in reports of cancer, birth defects, infant mortality and other forms of suffering in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the focus of a particularly vicious US assault....


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First they overthrow an souverign government and excuse it with a lie about weapons of mass destruction but then they even used chemical and nuclear ammunition to long term harm the iraqi citizens in a horrible way.

It reminds of Vietnam and Japan who still suffer under the long term effects of American-Jewish imperialism

So sad....

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Originally Posted by Teutone

First they overthrow an souverign government and excuse it with a lie about weapons of mass destruction but then they even used chemical and nuclear ammunition to long term harm the iraqi citizens in a horrible way.

It reminds of Vietnam and Japan who still suffer under the long term effects of American-Jewish imperialism

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You can thank the Jews for that. Now, they want the US to get to war against Iran next.

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Originally Posted by Teutone

First they overthrow an souverign government and excuse it with a lie about weapons of mass destruction but then they even used chemical and nuclear ammunition to long term harm the iraqi citizens in a horrible way.

It reminds of Vietnam and Japan who still suffer under the long term effects of American-Jewish imperialism

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Reminds me of Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers.

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Originally Posted by Toppo900

You can thank the Jews for that. Now, they want the US to get to war against Iran next.

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Ask the american members here and american in general, they are so pro jewish and impossible to convince when presented with facts, its scary.

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Originally Posted by Teutone

Ask the american members here and american in general, they are so pro jewish and impossible to convince when presented with facts, its scary.

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Decades of media brainwashing, man. This is exactly what Hitler tried to warn the world about.

Everywhere they went they caused chaos,suffering and long lasting damage

Yes thanks to America and it's allies Iraq was destroyed, however we have had lots of traitors in our midsts especially in the North and South of the country, it was only from the Western regions that truly resisted the Americans and their allies, and inflicted heavy causalities. Thus one should not only blame America and it's allies, but the traitors who created help this mess. The retards, where is your democracy, fleeing like rats to Europe lol. I swear most of them are none of my region which was hit the hardest but rather from the North a lot of them, and their not Arab speakers, and some are from the center-south who are Arab speakers but were manipulated by Iran and the black propaganda that the West did. Anyways I am proud of my people in the Western regions resisting and continue to resist and have never bowed to any imperialist colonist power. The traitors like Ahmed Chalabi is as much responsible for this mayhem as the Americans and their allies. However I do support genuine refugees, and especially those from the Western regions, and yet most of them go to the Gulf or America.

Nothing worse than a traitor scum

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Originally Posted by Teutone

Ask the american members here and american in general, they are so pro jewish and impossible to convince when presented with facts, its scary.

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iraq war was a mistake and will never happen again..