The pictures in the following two webpages are very shocking, disturbing, ..., and some in the rense.com article, or at least a pic.-bearing webpage a link is provided for in this article, some of these pics look almost as if fabricated; because the skin on some of the children appears as if of a plastic or rubber substance. So, some therefore look possibly fake in his set of pics, but I expressly communicated with him about this and he replied that the skin looked like of a fiberglass substance to him, and also said that he took these pics himself and was therefore immediately capable of seeing for himself whether or not fakery was involved. According to him, these pics are indeed authentic, all of them.

"Death Made In the USA: Wondering if your conscience is still anesthetized: Exclusive to Rense.com", by Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD, April 29, 2006, Rense.com

In the above article, there's a link to Mr Miraki's AfghanDUFund.org website and it's one people may want to check out. There's little there, when I visited a couple or few weeks ago, but the Q&A or FAQ page, if not pages, are worth pointing out here.

"Extreme Birth Deformities: Iraq: DU", based on May 1992 report of Ross B. Mirkarimi of The Arms Control Research Centre, and entitled "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to Iraq", UKSociety.org

None of the pics in that page gave me the impression of skin of a rubber or plastic substance, but they nonetheless "agree" in all other ways with the kind of extreme deformities Mr Miraki reports with his set of pics.

And of course there's more recent information than either that "Extreme Deformities" article or set of pics, albeit not of such pics, nothing I've come across anyway, mostly just being textual explanation or presentations of stories. Some of those include sad, unfortunate effects on US troops who've returned from service in this present war on Iraq, so in addition to the many US troops who were affected durin the 1990-91 GHWB war of aggression on Iraq, and what we have gotten for reports based on Iraqis affected. We may possibly also have some very recent ones based on only Iraqis affected, but am not sure that there are any, not having come across any, and the situation of hospitals in Iraq is so bad that maybe such information just has been compiled yet.

Anyway, there's definitely more recently published textual information, and perhaps TrapRock Peace Center is among the very best resources on this (there are some others, but I don't recall all the names, while knowing TRPC well from having read several articles there in 2003, and maybe TPRC provides links to those additional resource websites on DU).

There's at least one young male adult in the US and who served in this war on Iraq. He and his wife have since had a little girl, and she was born with deformities, at least one anyway, which appears to credibly due to DU poisoning of her father; and he went through a number of different symptoms after his return to the US, all symptoms known to be caused perhaps not only by but also certainly by DU poisoning. (Imagine, if it acts that quickly with US troops and their later offspring, when these troops don't remain in Iraq for more than a year or so, total, well, imagine what this likely MEANS for Iraqis who are stuck in Iraq, and perhaps if not likely for the rest of their lives.)

GHWB's war on Iraq dumped many tons or hundreds of tons of DU on Iraq, and GWB's war has dumped well over 1,000 more tons than his evil santa claus daddy did. With that and given what I've learned about DU poisoning so far, Iraq is now one huge DEATH VALLEY to me, a place to hurry to get and stay out of, for this DU dust is going to keep contaminating drinking water in the ground, the air, etc., people will be breathing or by other means absorbing DU for generations to come, it has a half-life of around 4.5bn years and remains poisonous even after that, etc., etc.

If that DEATH VALLEY "take" is valid, fitting with reality, then it seems to me that the best option Iraqis presently have, if they want to generationally survive, is to try to get out of Iraq, to flee to a country that will receive these people without prejudice (of course a very difficult thing to find would that be though). Maybe they could turn to Bush et al and say, f.e., "okay, we know what you've rather permananetly done to our country, it's fini for us, and we know that you WANT the OIL, so we'll make a trade, provide us with safe and free passage out of Iraq so that we can relocate, please help in us finding countries to help us in this respect, and then you can have Iraq all to yourselves". After all, it doesn't seem that Iraqis have any real future to speak of, that is, Iraqis still and remaining in Iraq; of course not the already expatriated ones.

Iraq's a big death valley for me, now, and am not sure, but Afghanistan is surely nowhere near well-off either. It's worse off than it was before, and the Russian, Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan was purportedly much better than the US et al one of today, for the Russians at least ensured that human rights, ..., according to international laws and conventions were respected, enforced, which the US NEVER cares about seeing to for [anyone], including its own citizens and very many of them.

For what's said about the comparison between the 1980s Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan vs that of the US et al of today, it's the following review of a review of a book, or an excerpt of the latter review, and it's the second one down, so you need to scroll down (there's no hyperlink at the top of the page, to jump to this review or whatever it is called).

"'Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan', by Ann Jones: Reviewed by William Grimes in NYT, Thomas Riggins, April 11, 2006, PoliticalAffairs.net

Evidently, the US likes to render other people's countries into death valleys a-la permanent, and in more ways than only one. In Iraq, as surely also applies for most Afghans in their country, hospitals have not been restored, have not been provided with the meds and tools they need, nor the electricity they need, etc., and not only this, but the US actually and expressly bombed some Iraqi hospitals, which is yet another extreme breach of international laws and conventions, therefore also of the US Constitution, and last but not least, an extreme breach of moral soundness, justice, etc. And this is only one of the many enough other ways in which the US et al have been making a permanent death valley of Iraq, in addition to being committed well after the US had CRUSHED Iraq and Iraqis with US sanctions on Iraq, imposed via the convenient cover-up puppet known as the UN or UNSC (not a puppet per se, but regularly ends up being one anyway, very much too).

Mike Corbeil
Hatley Township, Qc